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

[xmas74]

70. Nope

We had a really late spring in Missouri this year. There was snow on the ground when I saw it. (Heck, it snowed in May this year!) It was cold inside because there were no utilities turned on at the time so the lighting wasn't the best either.

I knew it wasn't going to be great but it was much cheaper than most places in the area. Now with being charged for lawn, water, trash, sewer, all the heat and the air being sucked out of the gaps around the windows and doors, etc., it would have been cheaper to go for the place that was about $175 more a month. It was a small apartment but they wanted a high deposit-first month, last month and security, which I couldn't afford all at once.

I signed my lease, had my gas, electric and internet turned on and waited for the first of the month to actually move in. I couldn't do it for two weeks because they still hadn't turned on the water. I moved in around the 15th of that month and no, they didn't prorate the rent due to their own negligence. By then I was stuck. I had to be out of my old place-it had already been rented-but was stuck in this place.

I think that, if sued for the lease, I could also use this information on my behalf, along with the condition and the lack of repairs.