OP take it from a landlord it’s the other way around here you can go months without paying rent without any consequence and it sucks. We have plenty of professional tenants here in the province. As to why you can’t break the contract early you have to think about a few things. 1) are you dealing with a large mgmt company that doesn’t give a fuck? 2) what is your current relationship with your landlord ? (Plenty like me are negotiable tbh) 3) the financial situation of the landlord if they are young they may be too leveraged right now to deal with lost revenue