I Have To Relocate To Care For My Niece While My Sister Is On Deployment. Landlord Refuses To Let Me Out Of My Lease.

Location: GA

This is a doozy so buckle up. I’m honestly not sure where else to go. I’ve contacted an attorney, and they want to charge me $3000 just for them to send a letter.

Essentially, my sister is going on deployment out of the country for a year, and she has asked for me to assume responsibility for her daughter, dog, and house out of state. This would mean I’d have to break my GA lease. After reviewing my lease agreement, I found that it has an extension to the military clause that states:

“If tenant is on active duty with the United States military and Tenant OR AN IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER of the tenant occupying the premises receives, during the term of this lease… temporary duty orders for a period in excess of 3 months, tenants obligations for rent shall not exceed 30 days rent after tenant gives notice under this section.”

I brought this to my leasing companies attention in November, and they have denied my claim 3 times. They have been provided with the TPO paperwork, the POA over the child, and the child’s birth certificate, and still they say we have no right to terminate our lease.

Now there’s another loophole that I thought I had found, where my landlord accidentally ticked the “this lease shall renew on a month to month basis” box. I thought this would be my out, but there’s another clause that states “Tenant will fully cooperate if any portion if corrections or adjustment of any portion of this lease are necessary due to any clerical errors” Which feels SO EFFED UP???

I have no idea what to do. I don’t have $3000 to spend on an attorney. I want so badly to care for my niece and help my sister, who is already sacrificing so much for this country. I feel backed into a corner, and any assistance or advice would be much appreciated. I’ll take anything I can get atp.