Ok, here is my situation. I moved into to my apartment last year near the end of June and signed a 6 month lease. I was offered a renewal in October to re-sign for another 6 months without a rent increase. I re-signed for another 6 months. Now I get a message that my lease is up in March and I can renew again without an increase in rent. In total I signed two 6 month leases, which I believe would end my lease in June 2009. They are telling me that my lease is up 6 months from the time I renewed it! What about my first six months! Can they just cut it short because I signed again early?

Answer:
NORMALLY, a new lease voids the original lease. Pure and simple. IT is presumed that the tenant and LL have carefully reviewed all the provisions of the new lease. Hope that clarifies things for you. [so your new date of expiration is the correct date of expiration.]