Breaking my lease?
Can I break my lease if they apartment complex keeps raising the rent? They have increased in $20 increments 3 times now in the last year. I use to live in a dual income now it's just me since our divorce and they have raised it to where I can no longer afford it on my own.
Update:Judith I am on a 1 year lease, i'm just wondering if HUD housing is different than normal leases? I'll read my lease tomorrow, but i'm almost 100% certain that the price I got when I first signed the lease is the price we would be stuck with. Her words "once you are in, you are in for the price, doesn't matter if your job changes and you make a million dollars a month" we are locked in. But then again does HUD work differently?
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If you have a lease, they can't raise the rent at all unless the lease says they can. If it does or it is month to month, then they can.
They can only raise your rent when your lease expires.. sounds like you either have very short term leases, or on a month to month lease. If on month to month you have to give 30 day written notice before leaving normally.. If on short term lease (6 mo?) you have to give whatever notice they require in writing within the time frame the lease gives you.
If you are in the middle of a lease then they typically can't raise the rent during the lease. I've seen multiyear leases where after a year the rent might get bumped up essentially with inflation (typically these are commercial leases not residential) but to just bump your rent up mid lease is very unusual. Go get your lease and read it, but it sounds like either your lease is month to month and they can do whatever they want with the rent or else these bumps are not allowed. If your lease is month to month then they can charge you whatever they want but you can also leave whenever you want with the proper notice.
You are apparently confused.
If you have a lease, no terms can be changed without all parties to the lease agreeing to them, until the lease expires. Your rent cannot be increased.
If they are increasing your rent and giving you advance notice that the rent will be going up, you do not have a lease. You are a month to to month tenant. If you don't want to pay the higher rent, you tell them you will be vacating by the last day before the increase is to take effect. You aren't breaking the lease because you don't have one.
You may have originally signed a lease, but when that expired and you were not asked to sign a renewal, you converted automatically to month to month.
Now, if you DO have a signed lease that has not yet expired, they are doing something you need to see a lawyer about.
Read your contract and what is written in it and what you signed......... verbally "what you were told" means nothing at all
If you're on a month-to-month lease, you can give one full month's notice in writing whenever you want.
Just as they can give you one full month's notice to raise the rent whenever.
If you're on a fixed term lease (ie from # date to # date) they can't raise the rent during the term. Once the term is up, and unless you lock the rent back in with another fixed term lease, you automatically move to a month-to-month lease.
Read your lease - if you have one. If month-to-month then they can increase the rent as often as they like as long as they give you 30 days notice. If you signed up for a year, normally your rent can't be increased during the term of the lease until the lease comes up for renewal - but read your lease about that. I've never heard of rent being raised 3x in one year for anyone who has signed a one year lease. NEVER and I've been renting since 1964.
Rents are increasing everywhere. You'd be smart to sign a year's lease and not go month-to-month. In the past 4 years my rent has increased by $40, $40, $30 and $30 and we've been told that each year our rent will increase by $30 a month plus they raised the fee they charge for carports to $30 a month. I wish I had only $20 increases.
If you decide to move elsewhere when your lease is up be sure to ask how much there rent increases have been each year for about the last 3 or 4 years - that will give you an idea of how much rent will increase in the future.
The only thing I know about Section 8 housing (HUD) is that a person must pay one-third of their own income toward the rent and HUD pays the rent. I have no idea what, if anything, happens if there is a change in your income. You should contact HUD about that. The rent charged for the unit you rent with a 1 year lease shouldn't change although maybe what HUD pays can vary - that isn't the same thing as your rent being raised only your share of the rent.
i think you’ll have to pay even more if you want to break it
Does the lease say they can?
If you are under a lease, the company cannot raise your rent.
If your lease is expired, you on a month to month agreement and can end the tenancy based on the lease agreement or state law.