Breaking lease with Irvine company

We were in this situation 1.5 years ago when we bought and found our house in April and just had signed a 1 year lease a few months before in January, ouch (buying a house kind of crept up on us).

When we initially rented, there was a lease break few option of $4kish, around 2 months rent but when we renewed January 2015, we were told after that Irvine Company no longer does the lease break fee option. They only do rent responsible until the end of your term (at least when we renewed and was told).

So we moved out, they put it up on their website, but whose to say they won't steer people towards an actual unit they're not getting rent on (unlike ours where we were still paying)? And we couldn't "advertise" as that would be considered subleasing which is a no no. We had a good location and it took about 2 months once we moved out to rent, once people started moving around in the summer. We would literally call 1-2 times a week to see how the interest was......
 
Update. We had two pay two months rent plus the last month.

We signed the contract so it's fair.
 
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