I had a 6 month lease, when it expired they sent us a paper asking if we wanted to renew our lease. It said to circle one of the options (renew for 1 year, renew for 6 months, or renew on a month-to-month basis) and then sign it. The different options had different rental proces associated with them.SO we circled “renew for 6 months” and signed it. It is my understanding that the purpose of the letter was to determine if we would be staying at the apartment complex, so they would know whether or not they could put it up for rent. Also, so they knew what terms to put on the lease. Shortly after this, they asked us to come in and sign the lease for our 6 month renewal. We haven’t, because things have changed and we decided we want to do month to month, b/c we need to move due 2 job reasons. When we went in to sign the lease (on a monthly basis), the landlord said that the little piece of paper we signed previously is legally binding- and that we have to stay the 6 mos. BS?!
we have not signed any leases yet… No where on the paper did it say that it was a contract.
Thanks in advance for your help everyone!