 TITLE: Does Breaking a Lease Affect Your Credit? CONTENT: Keeping Your Good Credit After You Break a Lease\n------------------------------------------------\nYou can break a lease without hurting your credit as long as you take the right steps. Review your lease to make sure you understand the terms, communicate with your landlord well in advance of breaking the lease, and pay what you owe before you move out. It's also a good idea to check your credit report a few months after breaking your lease to make sure nothing negative has appeared. Keeping careful records will give you the ammunition you need to dispute errors on your credit report that may arise from breaking a lease. If you're worried that breaking a lease will hurt your credit in the future, setting up free credit monitoring can alert you to any problems down the road. END