bajalearner
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breaking a lease
What are some consequences about breaking a rental lease and leaving the property? If the landlord is not agreeable, should I leave and loose my
deposit? I want to move to a different area or to the US
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DENNIS
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Without knowing the details, I'll assume you have a last month's rent deposit. Just live there for that month while you're packing up....then leave.
If he gives you a bad time during this period, paint the entire interior, floors, walls ceiling and inside the referigerator, Jet Black.
That's all ya gotta do. Believe me, I know....you'll appreciate yourself forever.
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monoloco
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What's the big deal? The leasors break them all the time.
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Osprey
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Whoa! Hold on there. How many other Nomads don't give a hoot about the sanctity of contracts? You all just sign, agree and later break the contract,
just like that?
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monoloco
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A Mexican lease isn't worth the paper it's written on and the Mexicans who enter into lease agreements know that. Just a warning, I found out the hard
way.
[Edited on 8-25-2010 by monoloco]
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Osprey
Whoa! Hold on there. How many other Nomads don't give a hoot about the sanctity of contracts? You all just sign, agree and later break the contract,
just like that? |
We need more info on the contract in question. I, for one, have jumped to the conclusion that this contract was written in Mexico and is between a
National and a Gringo.
I have seen, on too many occasions, these contracts interpreted solely to the advantage of the National, right or wrong.
I have a conditioned regard to a new "sanctity of contracts" here in Mexico. The agreement, in many cases, has a bias which is less than fair.
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Osprey
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Dennis, I think the signers have the bias. How would you imagine such a condition would be perpetuated? Do both parties just sign and wink a lot? Why
bother? I do know that most U.S. leases favor the party leasing the property (in the courts). Perhaps that was the beginning of the bias. I was hoping
one Nomad would post here showing us his word is his bond and that he has always honored any contract he was a party to.
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Howard
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In my opinion, when one signs a contract they live up to it. If extenuating circumstances does not allow you to live up to your word, talk it out
with the landlord and see what you can work out. Yeah, yeah, that would be in a perfect world and it probably won’t go down that way but what happened
to your personal commitment and ones word?
If one cannot live up to what they promised and they cannot work it out with the landlord just walk away with the least amount of damage, physically
and morally as possible.
I don’t know Dennis personally but I will hope that he was joking around about the destruction of the person’s property. What did the landlord do to
deserve such morally wrong behavior? Dennis, were you serious?
Crap happens in life, it’s what you do about it that counts. Bajalearner, do your best with the least amount of damage for all and start a new
chapter in the book of life.
I will now come off my soapbox.
Obi Wan Bubba
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
If he gives you a bad time during this period, paint the entire interior, floors, walls ceiling and inside the referigerator, Jet Black.
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Does it sound like I'm serious? 
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tjBill
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I had a landlord in tijuana who said some tenants just got up and left with no notice. He comes to find out why the rent has not been paid and finds
an empty apartment.
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bajabass
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I have rented a house in La Paz, on my word! No signed lease or contract. I will stand by my word, as I always have. I do need to mention that the
house is Gringo owned, and a local Gringo manages it. The situation would have to get very bad, on the lessor's end, before I would even consider
walking away. I have also rented a house in La Mision for the past 6 or so years on a handshake. Has the landlord not lived up to his end of the
agreement?
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bajabass
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O.K. bajalearner. Give us some details to digest. Where? When? Why? Length of lease? Reason for wanting to relocate? Oh! Unless your landlord is an
exception to the rule, kiss your deposit goodbye!
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bajabass
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Need to re-read the post fish! My wife and son are living in a very nice rental right now. When my biz is sold, I WILL be buying or building for cash.
I made a verbal agreement for 1 year on the rental, and after a little more than 2 months, they want to sell me the place. Nope, I don't own yet, need
the semi-big check first!
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bajabass
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The house we rent is nice, but I doubt I'll buy it. No garage, no underground cistern, small tinaca on the roof, no peremiter wall. I think it is only
a single lot, not sure. I've been in the house once, a few months ago.
Not hearing anything from the original poster????
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bajalearner
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I am the origonal poster.
Thanks for the points of view and opinions. I have not yet decided what I want to do. I am able to give it some more time and thought. I have only
lived in Mexico for 3 months and i am still adjusting.
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mcfez
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It takes two to tangle!
Take negotiations to a third party. Friend, resident, whoever. A" in between person" allows the emotions to be dropped and gets the issues
resolved.....most of the time.
I do third party often ....to talk to others....to get things done. It works in business and real estate.
Simple running away is chicken***t.
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