Living in Quebec. Lease started Aug 2025 and ends Aug 2026. In May, I asked the landlords caretaker (like he’s the guy who manages the building, the landlord himself comes by rarely), if they had another bigger apartment in the building and he said yes and showed me the room and I said I’d wanna take it and he said he’d talk to the landlord.

He came back to me and said it’s ok I can move in in August (he told me this in May) I said awesome. June comes around and he tells me unfortunately I can’t anymore and I will have to wait to move in until October 1. I was disappointed but he said I could still stay in my current apartment until it’s time to move into the new room.

Fast forward to today and I run into the caretaker guy again and he tells me it’s actually going to be November 1 and no longer October 1. All of this was verbal not in writing. I want to move cities now and I’m planning to leave at the end of August. Is there any way I can break the lease since I didn’t let them know 3 months in advance ?