Is it legal for a landlord to terminate your lease and force you to move with no compensation because they want to renovate?
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Is it legal for a landlord to terminate your lease and force you to move with no compensation because they want to renovate?
My in-laws have a lease for another 5 months. They’re apartment complex is terminated their lease and all other tenants leases in their building for upgrade renovations. They have given them another 2 months to move with no compensation. To top it off, if they want to move them into another unit in the same complex within the next 2 weeks. Is this legal?
Asked on November 29, 2011 under Real Estate Law, Colorado
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
In order to determine whether or not the termination of your in-laws' lease was legal or not by the property manager and landlord, it would be best for your in-laws to consult with a landlord tenant attorney about their situation as well as the other tenants' and to review their written lease in detail.
Unless there was a health issue with the rentals, it does not make sense for the property manager to terminate the lease of the in-laws and others before the lease terminated on its own terms from a legal perspective.
It sounds that the apartment complex is giving the in-laws the opportunity to move into another unit from what you have written. To be fair, moving fees should be paid by the property manager/landlord.
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