In absence of a military clause in your lease, you need to give a 30 day notice. You must pay rent during the notice period. This is 30 days from your next rental period. The complete procedure is in the link below
http://www.dix.army.mil/LegalOffice/file...
"yet are unwilling to really help out a military member in need." they have no choice but to do so. It is the law. All you need to do is give them a copy of your order s to move on base & they are legally required to release you from the lease.
If you have orders to move, around the world or around the block, they are required by law to allow you to terminate the lease at that time. They can still hold some deposit if you broke anything or leave it very dirty.
It's the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act.
If you are NOT going to another base, you will not be able to break your lease. LL probably will not accept for only 20 min away.
I signed a year lease with my apartment complex last December, but was recently issued orders to move on base on very short notice (Issued on the 18th, moving in the 28th)...these are actual orders, as if I was going through the entire process of moving from one base to another (military is paying for the move even though it is literally a 20 min move).
I am a little worried my apartment complex is going to try to fight me on breaking the lease or want me to pay to break the lease because I am not actually going to another base. After living at this complex for over a year I can tell they are a complex that simply has the military clause in the contract in order to attract military members, yet are unwilling to really help out a military member in need.
Any suggestions or advice on how to go about this? I feel like I have the right to break the lease because they are actual orders.
The lease does not specify that you need to give them 30 days notice to break a contract with the military clause so that is not an issue.
