Can I legally break my lease within 30 days?

[Chodite]

I've been living in my Philadelphia apartment for just 2 weeks now. I am very unhappy with a number of things related to my new apartment and would be much happier somewhere else.

Someone recently told me that I may be able to legally break my lease within 30 days of my move-in date and still get my securtiy deposit + last month's rent back. Does anyone know this to be true or not? Thanks!!

[Tuky]

Why is this place making you so unhappy?

[Zamindar]

I have never heard of any such law that would permit you to do this, if you can find a source please let us all know. But I strongly doubt that there is any such law. The only plausible thing that could possibly permit you to break your lease is if there are code violations that go uncorrected. Otherwise I suspect that you are out of luck unless you can get your Landlord to agree to release you. I had a friend that had a §8 Voucher that got in this predicament, She also after two weeks was very unhappy with her apartment, but since there were no code violations she could not get out of it until her lease was up the next year.

[Chodite]

Originally posted by Tuky:
Why is this place making you so unhappy?

A few things about the apartment bother me.

- I'm finding a lot of spiders everywhere. Walls, ceiling, sink, etc...

- The complex does not give you the choice of cable, phone and internet providers. The guy who owns the complex also owns the cable/phone/internet company - a little rinky-dink company who cannot provide consistent service and is very frustrating

- Parking is THE worst. If I get home after 7pm, I have to park about 1/4 mile away from my apartment

- Central AC doesn't work in master bedroom. Fan doesn't work in bathroom.

- Laundry facility in the building is a dungeon. Very dirty, wet and scary

Paying $1130/month is a real bummer for what I'm getting. I'm in Philly btw. I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong forum.

So I'm assuming I'm screwed for a year.... ?

[too trusting]

Yep. I hate to say this but that's just about par for NY and most folks pay alot more.