... 18 month lease. we moved after six months due to monetary issues and both our jobs moving to a different area. We spoke to the landlord about breaking our lease and he said no problem, we would need to pay our last month's rent and clean and repair the place and he would see about getting as much of our security deposit back as we could. A month after moving out (and past the usual rent payment date) he sends us a text saying we need to continue paying rent until he finds a new tenant, and that we forfeited the deposit by breaking the lease. This is extremely frustrating as he told us we only would have the last month's rent to pay and we would get at least a portion of our deposit back.
He lied to us, what can we do?