I’ll try to keep this brief. Our lease ends at the end of this month, APRIL. my wife and I have not signed anything to renew any lease whatsoever. We submitted our notice on April 3rd and our last will be May 31st.
They are telling me that per our “contract” that we have to pay for the full month of JUNE as well. Even though our actual contract ends April 30th. And we are doing a month to month for May (this is what happens when you don’t sign or renew the lease) So we have not signed a new contract or agreed to anything, we gave a move out notice, and they’re telling us no.
I also have all documents and “receipts” to back up this claim.
Just want to say to consult a lawyer because I’m not one. Don’t listen to anyone here, me included. Speak to a real lawyer lol. But here is my take:
Just leave on May 31st. What will happen is the landlord will simply steal your security deposit and claim that you didn’t give enough notice. We were also on a month to month lease. You are not under a contract through June and shouldn’t be obligated to pay June. This is what these pieces of shit always do. You can either get a lawyer or eat the deposit. Literally the same thing happened to us 5 years ago when we moved out of our apartment during covid to buy a house. I gave that fucking cocksucker like 2 months notice. He stole my deposit and claimed I gave him a week’s notice. He also claimed we ruined the kitchen which was 100% absolutely false. We cleaned so well before leaving. I ate the deposit because i didn’t want to go to small claims court when covid was at its peak. The fuck called my bluff because i threatened to get a lawyer and I said i would follow a suit. He must have banked on me not following through for that amount of money - he was right. Welcome to renting!
NAL, but always sue, and sue for more than you are owed. Court is a negotiation and judges do not take kindly to landlords trying to pull a fast one and landing in their court.
I have done this myself to a scammy corporate landlord and they settled out of court after a barrage of threatening letters, subsequent “you sued the wrong party”, and “we’re willing to drop what we were going to charge you if you drop this case” letters. I ended up about $400 up including court costs for filing and serving, just for ignoring letters.
Private landlords, who I’ve also sued, are much more naively willing to go in front of a judge. If you have any case at all, the judge is likely to eat the landlord alive- unless you are a deadbeat tenant you will walk out of court probably with 3x damages.