Charlotte Property Management – Tenant Rights

According to Marcia Stewart with the website www.NOLO.com .

A lease obligates both you and your landlord for a set period of time, usually a year. Under a typical lease, a landlord can’t raise the rent or change other terms, until the lease runs out (unless the lease itself provides for a change, such as a rent increase mid-lease). A landlord can’t force you to move out before the lease ends, unless you fail to pay the rent or violate another significant term, such as repeatedly throwing large and noisy parties. In these cases, landlords in North Carolina must follow specific procedures to end the tenancy. For example, your landlord must give you 10 days’ notice to pay the rent or leave (North Carolina Gen. Stat. § 42-3) before filing an eviction lawsuit. If you have violated a lease term that specifies that eviction will result from noncompliance, your landlord may give you an unconditional quit notice that requires that you move out immediately. (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 42-26(a)).

Tenants are legally bound to pay rent for the full lease term, typically one year, whether or not you continue to live in the rental unit—with some exceptions:   Read the rest at http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tenants-right-break-rental-lease-north-carolina.html