Housing Lottery / Breaking current leases
Hey all!
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Got extremely lucky and blessed to be picked for a building in the same community board I’m in now. They want me to move in in roughly 4 weeks but, my current lease goes through 11/30 which brings me to a few questions
My buildings options are lease break (1-3 month penalty + security deposit) or lease reassignment (finding someone to takeover it) where they’d be locked in to my current rate ($400 cheaper than what on market units are listing for) and no penalties for me. So I’m leaning towards lease reassignment obviously. Ideally they’d take over 7/1 onwards.
- I heard in the past some agencies will help you break your lease, does anyone know if ResideNY does that?
- For those who’ve been in similar shoes where did you find the person to take over your lease? What was your experience like?
Sorry if this doesn’t belong here but figured this sub may have good advice.
Thanks all!
EDIT: To clarify, this is for a lease takeover of my current apartment that is not stabilized so that I can move into the stabilized one