Comments on: If your landlord lists the home you rent for sale instead of re renting, is it considered mitigating in WI?

By: real estate guy

real estate guy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:56:59 +0000

you my ‘friend’ are in the wrong. You have a LEGAL lease. She offered to lower the rent, but this wasn’t good enough for you.

It sounds like she is working with you. She can do anything she wants with the property. I would start worrying about you not her.

Your problems are NOT!!! her problems.
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By: acermill

acermill — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:33:59 +0000

You need to take your lease to an attorney for review. Wisconsin does not allow residential leases for an extent of more than one year unless said lease meets specific legal requirements (and those requirements are NOT simple). Your lease may be invalid under Wisconsin law. Meanwhile, your landlord has no right to insist that you move furniture around, etc. to suit HER desires. While it is appropriate to have tidy premises, asking you to make the house look empty while you still live there is rather ridiculous.
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By: kemperk

kemperk — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:11:59 +0000

no
not mitigating
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By: charles w

charles w — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:47:59 +0000

Let me get this right. You are pissed off because your landlord, who has absolutely no obligation to lower your rent or let you out of your lease early, has offered to lower your rent by over twelve hundred bucks a year.

Damn. Her taxes, mortgage payments,insurance payments and all of the many other costs associated with rental property didn’t go down at all and yet she offered you a fairly good size break on your rent. And you are complaining that she isn’t giving you back enough because of YOUR injury?

Little wonder she doesn’t want to have another tenant.

She doesn’t have to rent the place out in order to mitigate the fact that you are breaking a contract that you entered into. The only mitigation that you may be remotely entitled to is if she is able to sell the property during your lease period. But even that is doubtful if your lease and your state allows for her to sue you for the entire lease in the event of default.
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By: rainedayz_tx

rainedayz_tx — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:03:59 +0000

She has every right to sell her own property at anytime. As it stands right now you are under a legally binding lease until September 2010 and if you break the lease you will be responsible for any and all lost rent. If she chooses to sell the house that changes things.
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