I broke my lease with my old apartment and the law is I am liable for damages but they have to find a tenant as soon as possible. Basically I have to pay them rent until they lease the apartment.
Here's the question: Can I deduct my security deposit from the my last payment? My lease doesn't say I forfeit my security deposit for breaking the lease. But it does say I cannot use the security deposit for paying rent. But I'm not paying rent, I'm paying damages (for lost rent). Isn't covering damages what the security deposit is for? Did I just come up with some clever tenant hack? (Keep in mind, I'm still going be paying thousands of dollars until they fill the unit.)
Landlording is one of the few "professions" where lost profits are pursuable as realized profits by way of state violence.