Quote: (09-30-2014 11:09 PM)kosko Wrote:
If you want to break it the most shady way possible without bouncing in the darkness of the night is to just not pay your rent. This will force him to serve you papers within a 30-45 day time frame (jurisdiction dependent of course). He uses that deposit to cover that 30 day window and then your out. Try to negotiate first though then if no bueno then just don't pay next month and bounce. If you bought a place his reference is worth nothing going forward.
Wouldn't that be eviction then? Eviction shows up on your credit report and is just as bad if not worse than showing delinquent/default on rent I believe?
The landlord was pretty adamant about if I just skipped he would pursue it and it would go to collections and therefore show on my credit report. I'm not sure if that was posturing or not though.