704.29 Recovery of rent and damages by landlord; mitigation.
(1) SCOPE OF SECTION. If a tenant unjustifiably removes from the premises prior to the effective date for termination of the tenants tenancy and defaults in payment of rent, or if the tenant is removed for failure to pay rent or any other breach of a lease, the landlord can recover rent and damages except amounts which the landlord could mitigate in accordance with this section, unless the landlord has expressly agreed to accept a surrender of the premises and end the tenants liability. Except as the context may indicate otherwise, this section applies to the liability of a tenant under a lease, a periodic tenant, or an assignee of either.
(2) MEASURE OF RECOVERY. (a) In this subsection, reasonable efforts mean those steps that the landlord would have taken to rent the premises if they had been vacated in due course, provided that those steps are in accordance with local rental practice for similar properties.
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