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Our lease states that we must give 60 days notice prior to end of lease for renewal. I gave that notice, but decided to move due to a job relocation, at the end of the lease. I did not sign any lease for the following year, as the landlord did not send it in time. I let her know I would be moving 20 days before the lease ends. My question is: can she keep the security deposit (=one month's rent?)

I rent my house to a friend without a lease. No rent has been paid. What do I have to do to evict in Tennessee?

We are landlords of a residential property (single family home). The tenant's last 'official' signed lease was month to month and expired February 2008. We have allowed him, per verbal agreement and acceptance of rent, to continue living there per the terms of last lease agreement (month to month, in other words, there is no official signed lease at this time since the last lease expired.) He paid only partial rent for July 2009 and is now late on August. Regardless of the back rent owed, we wish to terminate the lease by choice (to sell the house). We are not interested in collecting back rent or recovering any money owed. There was no security deposit on original lease. The last official and signed lease agreement stated if we wished to terminate lease for any reason, we would give him written notice by the 16th of the month and he'd have period of 2 weeks to vacate. Per Colorado law, regardless of delinquent rent, can we proceed with serving a written termination notice to have him out by the 30th of this month if we don't wish to recover any money? We gave him verbal notice today 8/5/09 and can give written notice before the 16th. He has lived there a total of 29 months now - first with a specified term lease of 6 months and then a specified month to month lease that we stated would be re-evaluated in February 2008 and that is when we agreed verbally to stick with the month to month terms an never resigned a new lease . We are trying to avoid formal eviction (3 day notice etc) as we planned on terminating lease regardless of this past due rent owed.

I moved in with a roommate and signed a lease for three months and after three months we will be on a month to month basis. After three weeks into this I just cannot stay here. My roommate has all kinds of mood swings. We are just not getting along. My question is, can I break this lease before the next month? I just feel like packing my things and leaving. If I do what will happen? My roommate lives in Castro Valley.

I broke a lease mid June. The landlord has turned down every applicant in the last month and a half. At the moment he does not have it advertised as he is out of town. A friend of mine placed an application 3 days ago - the landlord said that it looked good and would call him with an answer 2 days ago; he has not called. Can I sue this guy for not filling the apartment so that he can hold me to the lease?