How Do You Break A Rental Lease Due To No Wheelchair Accessibility?
Living in an apartment or rental home that lacks wheelchair accessibility affects people with permanent or even temporary disabilities. Although it is easy to foresee a lack of wheelchair access before you sign the lease, what do you do if you encounter a problem part-way through a lease? Or, what happens if you were promised an apartment with handicapped access but are assigned to an apartment without it? If you need to break a lease because of a lack of wheelchair accessibility, follow these steps. Look to your lease agreement. You may be able to make this process very easy if you can point to a section in your lease that plainly states that you can terminate your lease if there is a lack of disabled access to your apartment, condo or rental home. If not, look at what situations allow you to terminate your lease; the contract may specify that termination is acceptable if the landlord does not comply with the law. Look to the law. Although the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) doe
