[Teh_Bandwagoner]

So my tenant signed a one-year lease in April, but then on July 31 lets me know that her work contract was going to expire and was planning to move out-of-province. She also outright just states that she's moving out August 24 to BC. I respond, mentioning to her that she could sub-let, or if she could find a new tenant to assign the lease, I could let her out of it. However if she couldn't find a tenant, she would be responsible for covering the rent for the time the unit was vacant. I also note to her that she should have provided one month's written notice prior to leaving, but I would let it slide if she found a tenant.

She chose to try to find a new tenant. So she posts an ad on Kijiji for a week, finding no luck. I, in turn pay for an ad on Rentfaster on her behalf to help her out. This is part of my obligation. No luck from her for about 10-12 days. I mention that she could option to put up the ad for less rent, and cover the difference. She refuses. A few more days go by, and still no tenant. I tell her I'm willing to drop the rent a little without her covering the costs. She insists that she can rent it out for the same amount just fine. Okay fine. Just trying to help.

August 24 rolls along, still no tenant, and she just moves out. So I took over responsibility of finding tenants. I get someone 2-3 days after to sign a lease for September 1 for the same rent. I let her know, and let her know that I'll be taking a small charge off her damage deposit ($35) for some repairs I had to make to the wall, which she agrees to. I let her know that the lease was starting September 1. As per the act, I can hold the DD for up to 10 days, so September 11, but again being a nice guy, I said I would only hold it until September 5, just to make sure all the utilities clear an no other items come up. She agrees to it.

September 5 rolls around. I'm busy most of the day, so I forget that I noted that I would give her the DD that day. That evening I check my phone, and I have like 6-7 texts from her asking about the DD. The last one, she decides that she wants to play the Tenancy Act game and says that because she vacated the place on August 24, that in fact 12 days had passed and that I owed her the DD.

I had no clue where this came from! I was super accommodating to her this whole time despite her just wanting to nope out of her lease. So I text her back saying, I would return the DD that evening, and to "please refrain from quoting the act. You actually had to provide one month's written notice to me prior to leaving." She then texts me back saying she only quoted the act because I did first?? Yeah, I did, out of due process. She did it to me out of spite from nowhere. Plus she clearly had no idea how the act works and simply gleaned one small clause out of it to threaten me.

But me, being a man of my word, still felt obligated to return her DD to her that evening, despite her b***chiness. But decided to charge her $30 bucks for the ad I put into Rentfaster out of minor spite. Despite me explaining the charge and sending her the receipt, she still wanted the $30 bucks back.

At that point, I wrote a strongly worded e-mail to her letting her know everything she did wrong when she broke lease and that she was not getting bloody $30 back, which she technically owed me. She then responded with some crap jibber jabber that I ignored after. I don't care at this point. If she wants $30, she can go ahead and make a claim through RTDRS and see how that works out for her.

Anyway, just felt like ranting. Try to be a proper nice landlord and tenants still treat you like scum.

TL;DR - Tenant suddenly went bat poop crazy over her DD when she broke lease early even though I returned it to her.