I recently moved from away from New York City, one month before my lease expired. After back and forth with our realtor, I agreed to use my security deposit to cover the final month (April 2017) of the lease, with the understanding that our apartment would not be available for rental until 5/1.
I started receiving USPS notifications for Amazon shipments today, and quickly realized someone else was shipping packages to my old apartment. I checked Trulia, and confirmed the apartment was advertised as "available immediately" on 3/30 (thanks Google cache). The listing was recently pulled.
It seems the realty company has taken it upon themselves to break our lease. That's fine, but I would like to receive a partial refund of my last month of rent if that's the case.
I expect to get lots of IANAL, but do I have any legal standing here? My understanding is that leases must be mutually terminated in the state of New York, which definitely did not occur in this scenario.
Submitted April 18, 2017 at 12:10PM by breakz http://ift.tt/2pw9VlJ
