If you breach your written lease by moving out before the lease expires, your landlord can hold you liable for any damages and for the remainder of the rent. However, if the landlord retakes possession of the dwelling unit, the landlord has an obligation to make a good faith eff ort to fi nd another tenant. Th is means making the ordinary eff ort to rent which the landlord would make for any apartment. (Fla. Stat. § (2)). But the landlord does not have to give special priority to your apartment. If the landlord does.
