How to legally break a lease in Ohio?

I need to move to another state for health purposes but my lease isn't up until August. Is there any way to get out of my lease without negative consequences? The rental office says I would have to pay the $1,019 for the remaining 4 months. $4,076 in all.

Most times if you are willing to show your apartment/condo your landlord will let you terminate your lease upon finding a suitable new tenant. If not, most states only allow a landlord to charge 3 months of rent, as this is considered suitable time to find a new tenant. I certainly would not ask my boss or anyone else to lie for me. At the end of the day, all you are left with is your integrity. Good Luck.

ask your boss to write a letter saying you need to relocate for business purposes... hopefully he/she is willing to tell a white lie.

In my opinion

Read the lease, to see if it has a termination fee. Then every state has state statute within landlord/tenant law yo to require each party a duty to mitigate ones damage. what this means is your landlord can not sit on there hands for four months and do nothing, they have a legal burden to demonstrate to the court they took reasonable steps to re-rent each month but failed

When you signed that lease you made a contract legal and binding though, there are exceptions and also rights of the tenants.

Breaking a lease must be in good cause and justified and in some cases not all just some the owner will tear up the lease and call it even, but not all the time.

This is what happened to me. My Father told me he had lung cancer and was very sick. He needed me home to take care of my Mother until he was well enough to manage.

I moved out of my apartment and ,left it totally clean. I turned in my keys and they told me that I would still be responsible for the two months remaining on my lease.

I wrote a letter to the Corporation and asked for amnesty from the lease because of a family emergency. I lived there three years and was never late with my rent.

Guess what? They let it go and set me free from it. The3 letter was convincing enough though, they still had the right to stick me with the two remaining months, but I was a good tenant and that paid off for me.

I owe nothing. I was one of the lucky ones.