Anyone here ever break a lease? (please read before commenting)

[hfojvt]

25. well one of my tenants

got free legal help because of her low income.

See if something like that is available, like here http://www.lsmo.org/

Also, check this out http://ago.mo.gov/publications/landlordtenant.pdf

I kinda doubt your landlord has a leg to stand on.

As for leases, I broke one back in 1987 and all that happened what the landlord kept my deposit (and my first landlord did that anyway even after I rented two places for a month to avoid breaking the lease (plus I could not get moved by the 1st). As far as I knew that was their only option.

From your description it seems like the landlord should be more worried about legal action than you should.

I also don't see how they could mow only once. Unless you were mowing all the other times. As for a water bill, that may be water, sewer and garbage in one bill, like it is here. And those all have minimum charges which impact the small users more. My water bill from last year was $34.69 - $12.02 for water, $7.27 for sewer, and $15.40 for garbage. Those are all minimum bills - meaning there is no way for me to lower them.