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Here are some valid reasons to break a lease agreement in Pennsylvania: The rental unit is uninhabitable or violates Pennsylvania safety or health codes. You are starting active military duty. Your landlord violates your privacy or harasses you. There is an early termination clause in your lease agreement.

Does a Lease Agreement need to be notarized in Pennsylvania? No, Pennsylvania Lease Agreements do not need to be notarized. As long as the PA Rental Agreement is signed by both the Landlord and Tenant, it's considered fully executed and legally binding.

Under the right to a safe and habitable home, a landlord cannot force a tenant to move into a home or unit ?as-is? and cannot demand that the tenant be responsible for repairs. To be safe, and habitable, a unit or home should have: Working smoke alarms. Working hot water.

Here are some valid reasons to break a lease agreement in Pennsylvania: The rental unit is uninhabitable or violates Pennsylvania safety or health codes. You are starting active military duty. Your landlord violates your privacy or harasses you. There is an early termination clause in your lease agreement.

Generally, a landlord can terminate a lease without reason at the expiration of the lease term. That means your landlord is under no obligation to renew your lease or allow you to stay on the property for additional time unless you are able to invoke an anti-retaliation law.

A landlord is also entitled to legally terminate a lease and take steps to evict a holdover tenant, if a tenant fails to uphold their end of the agreement, such as by failing to pay rent, unlawfully subletting the property or engaging illegal activities at the property.