Recently i found out im pregnant. Hooray! Unfortunately my partner and I don’t live together at the moment. I live in a studio apartment in Detroit, surrounded by people who smoke cigarettes, blunts, and who knows what else in their apartments. The smell is apparent alllll throughout the building.

My partner and I want to live together, but we need to get myself out of the lease. He is planning to buy a house before my pregnancy is over. To break my lease contract, I would end up owing $3,000+.

The building is in such a rundown area, im disappointed i ever signed the lease. Crackheads everywhere, men yelling at me everytime i walk outside, gunshots. It’s honestly not a good situation.

This has led me to try and devise a plan to get out of my lease without paying up. I have a small dog who is a yapper. My neighbors already complained about the dog barking one time when i forgot to pull the curtains down before i left for work.

I’m thinking, maybe if I just let the doggo bark his heart out as he pleases, they will evict me. In the lease there is a clause that mentions if an animal becomes a nuisance, it must be removed from the unit, otherwise the tenant faces eviction. Is this an absolutely crazy route for me to go down? Of course.

But i do not want to pay $3,000 to get out of this apartment which is literally disgusting and filled with smoke. It’s not safe for me or the baby. The landlord/property management just pretends the smoke isn’t there lol. They don’t care or don’t want to deal with the issue. I don’t think an eviction on my record would be a huge cause for concern since my partner is buying a house anyways for us and the baby.

Please don’t be rude in the comments, if it’s a dumb thing to do then I won’t do it. I’ll just fork up the money. But i genuinely don’t think the property management deserves my money.

The smoking has been a constant issue and now that im pregnant i NEED to be OUT of this environment.