My husband and I have lived in Nashua, NH since 2003. Upon first signing our lease and giving our deposit there was a relet fee of breaking lease early. That relet fee was one months rent. This was to cover cleaning the apt. and the $ they would lose. Just this past year, 2006, when the lease was up for renewal we noticed that they changed this relet fee to two months rent (now over $2,200 for breaking lease early). My husband has been transferred and we will not be able to complete our lease. The business will not pay lease breaking fees and so we are looking at paying $2,202 in these new relet charges. The only option at the time our lease needed to be renewed was to sign it or be out of a place to live and incur the cost of moving. We are also not "guaranteed" to receive back our deposit due to they need to make a final inspection before we leave. All in all we may end up paying them over $2,700 just to leave here! Under my understanding we should be grandfathered in under what our original lease said, or did the singing of the addendum make all possibility of that obsolete. I would just like to know what "grandfathering" actually covers and if they have a right to charge a tenant who signed one thing upon arrival a new amount (had it been two months rent when we first arrived here we would not have rented here).
Thank you for your help.
Thank you for your help.
