**texas – Landlord Trying To Cancel Lease After We Moved In. What Are Our Options?**

Location: Texas – Landlord trying to cancel lease AFTER we moved in. What are our options?

Looking for advice on a situation that feels pretty unreasonable.

My partner and I signed a lease for a house in Pflugerville, TX. The lease officially started Thursday, and we received the keys that afternoon. We immediately completed a full move-in.

After getting access to the property, we noticed several issues and reached out to property management requesting basic things like cleaning and making sure certain items were functioning properly (nothing unusual—just standard move-in concerns).

Then on Friday around 6PM, we received an email from the property management company saying the owner has decided not to move forward with the lease and wants us to return the keys ASAP. Their office is closed all weekend, so there’s been no way to even talk to anyone.

We’ve already:

Paid all move-in costs (rent + deposit)

Completed the move (which was expensive and time-consuming)

Taken possession of the property

Now they’re basically asking us to turn around and move everything out immediately, which is obviously not realistic.

A few things:

We don’t really want to stay anymore after this, given how the landlord is handling things

But we also can’t afford to eat the cost of moving twice and scramble to find a new place

Their email didn’t mention covering anything beyond refunding what we paid

So I’m trying to understand:

Can a landlord in Texas even do this after giving possession?

If we agree to leave, what kind of compensation is reasonable to ask for?

What kind of leverage do we actually have here?

Would really appreciate any insight, especially from anyone familiar with Texas tenant law or similar situations.