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the easiest way to break your lease is to not pay the rent. After you have not paid the rent over a certain amount of days(5-10) they will send you an eviction notice. Since they are evicting you this will be THEM breaking the lease and not you. Of course there is an eviction notice fee usually like $100-$200 but this will be billed to you along with the rent you owe later. If you pay this in a timely fashion it will never go on you credit report. You will basically come out clean as a whistle. I've done this before twice and it works. It's much easier and cheaper than "toughing it out" or simply paying the rest of the rent owed through your lease. Being honest with my property managers helped me. I told them i was moving out and I need to know my options. They of course gave me the pricey options and I told them there was no way I was going to be able to afford it but I was still moving regardless. After a long conversation with them one of them later confided in me about this option. She was not supposed to tell me this because it was basically a way to screw the owner of the apartment however she understood that i was moving anyway and that i was NOT going to pay rent for months that i would not even be living there. A friend had told me about this option as well but i wasn't for sure that it would work (i was concerned about the eviction looking bad on my credit report) until the property manager confirmed it. Hope this helps!