Avoid breaking a lease and avoid subletting your apartment

Breaking your apartment lease is the last thing you want to do to yourself. It will cost you so much money, that in the end you'll ask yourself a question, "why didn't I choose other alternatives?" to get out of your lease.

If you are ever in a position where you just have to get out of lease, you need to first try to talk to your landlord and explain the situation. Sometimes landlords are not as bad as most people portray them. Some landlords totally understand life changing situations and would listen to you, especially if you've been a good tenant and always paid your monthly rent in a timely fashion.

You need to take every precaution out there to avoid breaking a lease.  Best thing of course is to find yourself a real qualified tenant who would replace you on your apartment lease.  However, I strongly suggest that you NEVER sublet your apartment.  This will cause you unbelievable headache. How? Well, assume you have three months left on your lease and you find some sketchy guy off of Craigslist and let him in your apartment, while you're away.  When the three months are up, you come back and you place is totally trashed.  What happens next? You go to your leasing office and tell them this story, they'll just charge you double because you had no authority to sublet to anyone who's not been approved.  The leasing office could even file charges against you or make you pay for all the damages and never return your security deposit back to you.  Subletting is a very grey area, don't ever do it.