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Originally Posted by skudr248
Well story is, and ill try to make it short, I moved into an apartment on September 1st so I can be closer to school, payed $500 security deposit to my landlord (with whom I live with), unfortunately family things happened and I told my landlord I had to move back home and will have to leave by Nov 1st, on Oct 27th (I pay my months rent upfront always not at the end of month).
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That's how rent works. You pay in advance. If you pay after the term of residence it is a hotel.
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Originally Posted by skudr248
I asked for my deposit back 2 days ago ... he didn't even mention giving me my deposit back at all before, and told me he would only give me $150 back because the new renter will be moving in today the 15th which is his brother and basically he did not even try to find a roommate at all before then which he told me. Now he wants to charge me half months rent (350) for no one living there?
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This is actually quite fair as 30 days notice is standard. What are the odds that he'd be able to find a new tenant with three days notice? Slim.
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Originally Posted by skudr248
I told him that's bs as the law states you can't do this, he hasn't responded yet so I want to grab some info from someone who knows anything and if I should take this to small claims as I am a student and he's effing me over bad here.
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Actually, you're wrong. Nobody is "effing" you over. You made your own bed now you have to lie in it.
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Originally Posted by skudr248
So far I have found this saying under any circumstance I am entitled to my deposit back, within 10 days, which it's already been over 2 weeks (and just fyi - I never broke anything, cleaned up all the time, barely actually stayed there because family things)
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You may be entitled to your deposit back but if you want to get technical you still owe him a month's worth of rent because you didn't give him proper notice. With that in mind, you're actually being treated fairly in this instance. He found someone who would rent mid-month when he could have easily just had his brother stay with him as a guest and put you on the hook for the whole month.