Hi -
Background:
Apartment has been a chaotic mess full of: cockroaches, loud music from neighbors that vibrate the floor at all hours of day/night, water issues, water in ceiling/walls leaking, etc. We have tried to put up with it all and notify property manager along the way, but after going through 13 hours of said music, we had enough and started conversations with property manager regarding breaking our lease as we cannot keep this up. Lease is up end of July, so we thought we would be able to pay a severance fee and reach a mutual agreement. Wrong.
Instead we've been ghosted by our property manager and does not return our emails/calls.
Question/issues:
The property leasing company reached out and told us they are able to re-list the apartment, but we would have to pay a concession in the nknthly rent due to the market value from Covid, for the remaining least term for new renters. (It's only
3 months, so we agreed - we want out) Now we are getting a link and request to pay a brokerage fee before they submit the listing on the sites.
Is this our responsibility? Shouldn't the LL pay this? If they should be looking for new tenants as our lease is ending, why do we pay this fee?