Episode 52: Breaking Your Lease Early, Seven Best Practices

<p>Michelle Itkowitz, here. I have news!</p><p><br></p><p>A version of this show is now being distributed by a real podcast network. It’s a terrific opportunity that I’m very honored to have.</p><p><br></p><p>The name of the new show is<a href="https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/learn-to-live-better-a-housing-law-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"> “Learn to Live Better, a Housing Law Podcast”</a>. You know how at the end of every episode I say, “the law belongs to you, but your ownership of the law is only as great as your understanding of the law, so let’s learn to live better…” So, the name of the new show is Learn to Live Better, a Housing Law Podcast.</p><p><br></p><p>I am now working with the <a href="https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Broadway Podcast Network</a>, a vibrant community of more than 190 shows and 15,000 episodes reaching a global audience of 12 million listeners. BPN is NYC based, it’s young, about 7 years old, it’s got an arts and creativity focus (and that’s a lot of my audience), but there’s so much else on there - it’s business, it’s self-improvement, it’s got awesome scripted dramas. In 2025, one of BPN’s original programs won a Webby, that’s like an Academy Award for a podcast. I think BPN is the right partner to help me help New York City’s middle-class tenants at scale.</p><p><br></p><p>Here’s the updated show description, which expresses what I’m trying to do here with this podcast project:</p><p><br></p><p><em>“If things aren’t going right with your apartment, whether it’s something small or something big, it can throw you off in your career, your personal life, and your health. You want your energy going into your job, your business, your art, your family, your spiritual life, and the causes and people you care about, not into grappling with housing issues.”</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>“Here&#39;s the thing. New York City tenants have more rights than tenants anywhere else in America. But NYC tenants also are shockingly uneducated about what those rights are. A right that you don’t know you have is the same as no right at all. And there are so many bits of incomplete information out there, peppered with urban myths about landlord-tenant law.”</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>“This podcast will change all that. In each episode we look at current legal cases and statutes and the real-life apartment stories they give rise to here in the greatest city on earth. And every