broken lease nightmare

I signed a one year lease with a student housing in Orlando, Florda in June 2001. The entire experience was a nightmare. There were rats and roaches and the rent was far above what I could afford, especially for such dimise accomodations. But being a college freshman on my own, I had no choice but to sign the lease. I paid on time for the fisrt three months. In October of the 2001 I was evicited because I could not pay September's rent. A week following my eviction, the residence had already filled my former apartment with a new tenent. Am I accountable for the remainder of the lease, although they had another tenent living in the same apartment, paying the same rent I would have if I had not been evicted? Is it illegally for them to pursue money from me even though they received rent from the other tenet?

[OHlandlord]

They may not charge rent twice for the same period for the same unit. That is termed "double dipping" and is illegal. However, they may charge you for unpaid rent while you were in the unit, and rent up to the time when the next tenants took over and started paying rent, as well as for any damages you left in the unit, or utilities that you failed to pay for. They also can charge you the difference in rent if they were unable to re-rent it for the same rent level as you were contracted to pay for that period. They should have sent you a deposit disposition letter that detailed what they deducted from your deposit. You should have received this within about a month (the time varies from state to state). They, no doubt, kept your deposit for some of the items above. Whatever is left after applying your deposit, is what they can sue you for. If they are trying to collect rent money from you while they accepted rent from the new tenants, you will have to show that new tenants lived in the unit as of xx/xx date. Do you have any witnesses, the names of the new tenants, or any other evidence that you could collect to show they had already rented it out? Have you been served to appear in court over this?