Any Attorneys out there?? Help!

I live in Texas and we keep our boat on the lake in dry stack. I'm posting here because I don't have my lease agreement in front of me right now. Our lease expires on May 31 of every year and to this point I haven't received the new lease for 2004. I decided to take the boat out of storage and bring it home to save some $$ and explore other lakes so I dropped off a 30 day notice assuming since I had not signed another year's lease I was on a month to month lease and still needed to give notice. Well I was told today that my lease automatically renews every year wether I sign or not and that leases were only sent out as a courtesy anyway. The manager claims that it states that in the lease. Is this leagally binding? Is there a loop hole? I didn't realize that an agreement could automatically be renewed without consent.

I used to work in the water filtration business and our competitors did this to customers all the time. They would file leagal action if the customer tried to break the lease. There was a 14 day window where you could cancel after each 12 months. You could just go get your boat , call the manager, tell him your no longer storing the boat there, and to contact your lawyer if he has any issues.

Yeah, i'd like to go the legal route first. I have no beef with them and I love the place and the service and would probably go back in the future. I just want a change of scenery and a little more cash in my pocket.

I would first recomend reading your lease agreement before defaulting on anything. there might be a part in there that it does extend on a yearly basis, and if it is in there that the lease is extended w/o siging a new lease, then I would say you are stuck. I am not a lawyer, so if you contacted one, i am 99% sure that they could find a legal loop-hole that would get you out of the lease. There is usually some problems in most all legal contracts that can some times make them null and void.

I would say though that for dry storage at a lake, the contracts would be for a year, otherwise most people would only pay during the nice summer months, and walk away during the other months and find cheaper off site storage. hence the reason that the place requires yearly contracts. I do think it is in bad faith on their part if you have been a long term customer that has always paid on time, and need to get out of the storage mid way through the year. heck, you could even tell them you are moving, and don't need the storage, nor can you use it since it won't be near the new home, and see if they will allow you out that way.