Breaking a lease?

[Scandia]

Nope, no 3-year lease. Hopefully they won't treat each renewed lease as a brand new thing. And what if I had gotten ill or my family needed me to move back home due to illness of one of them after 3 or so months of having just moved here?

No month of free rent this year. That was last year's lease. But this renewed one included absolutely no freebies or bonuses like that.

The complex always has people waiting at the office hoping to be shown an apartment. It is near a major university (USF)- and although fall term will start soon, I came in a March to get an apartment to move in during July in order to start classes in August for the fall term. So there may be people searching early for an apartment to start school in the spring term.

Hopefully the escape clause will not be more than 2 months rent or the sort (which is still 1200 dollars- owch). And I will be ultra super duper nice to them. But I happened to find this condo now. I cannot pay mortgage AND rent simultaneously simply because the apartment complex is following things to the letter rather than being flexible. And if they rent it to some new tenant, they may be able to charge them even more anyway.