Can I get out of a 3 day old lease agreement?

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Can I get out of a 3 day old lease agreement?

I signed a lease on 07/27. Upon examining the downloaded agreement on 07/28, I read it and saw that the representative stated that the lease was for 1 year but the lease says 2 years. Also, I will not be occupying the apartment and did not know that I was signing in agreement to a 2 year lease and not a 1 year agreement. I tried to invoke the

Asked on July 30, 2019 under Real Estate Law, Florida

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 4 years ago | Contributor

1) If you signed the lease, then the law presumes you read it and agreed to what you signed: therefore, that you may have misread it as to the duration is irrelevant. You are held to what you signed.
2) That you will not occupy or take possession of the unit is also irrelevant: the law doesn't care if you live their, sublet it, AirBnB it, use it to store possessions, leave it empty, etc. What you do with the apartment you rent is your business, so long as you don't violate the lease.
3) Not seeing the "senior clause" to which you refer, we cannot state whether it will allow you out of the lease. We can say that contracts and their various terms or provisons are enforceable as per their plain terms, so if this provision does, in your situatino, allow you to terminate or void the lease, you can do so.


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