Need to break my lease, any lawyers?

[oldunion]

no there are no witness lines. i was not able to see the copy today because the two women who run this place will be out until monday.

I don't think the guarantor notorized paper we filled out has anything to do with the lease itself...

im going to plead my case to her on monday, and try for sympathy.
I have a pretty good story concocted about family troubles and how i fear for my emotional well-being; which is partially true and she seemed nice so maybe.

what do lawyers charge for this kind of thing assuming they took the case beyond a consultation?

edit: This is what the last line of the lease says.

in witness whereof the parties hereto have executed this lease agreement the day and year first above written

by____________________
tenant signiature_______________
By___________________
management company
agent for: my campus

i don't know if this means that a witness should have signed. No witness signed my sheet. Only my signiature is on the sheet.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Common? That's one I've never heard before. Painting was required in all the states I lived, and cleaning carpets was required in one. Re-carpeting sounds really wasteful...think of all that carpet winding up in landfills!

Really? I've never heard of the paint thing lol.
I guess it's a CA thing then. Around here the Carpets need to be changed by the management something like once every two years, while tenents are still occupying the same apartment, for health reasons. If you have someone in for a year, or almost a year, and then they move I think that it is necessary to change the carpets out before rerenting. They did the same thing in Oregon from what I remember but there's probably more reason there considering the dampness.
I'm pretty sure they do it everywhere and not just here but there is a conspiracy involving carpeting in apartments. Every apartment I have ever been in here in California has had very light cream colour carpet that is almost impossible to keep clean. And ofcourse if you leave and you leave dirty carpets they will insist on keeping your deposit.

 

[Moonbear]

Every apartment I have ever been in here in California has had very light cream colour carpet that is almost impossible to keep clean. And ofcourse if you leave and you leave dirty carpets they will insist on keeping your deposit.

Yep, every apartment in the country seems to have that same light beige carpet, and the same "apartment beige" walls (that's what I call the color). I did see an apartment once that had light gray carpet, but they had a waiting list, so I couldn't get one of those apartments (they were just being built and were SOOOOO nice, and they gave you a choice of gray or beige). But, how does that make sense that they keep your deposit if you leave dirty carpets if they have to change the carpet anyway?