Renter’s Advice and Resources

Renter’s Advice and Resources

Reasons to Break a Lease: Roommate’s Death

Staff Writer

 · Dec 16, 2010

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The landlord and tenant laws in your state determine whether you can break a lease because your roommate died, as well as what’s written in the agreement. Your roommate was either a co-tenant or subtenant. Both of these relationships have different contractual obligations and affect how to break a lease in the case of a […]