What can I do?

[Sharad M.]

I am moving out of my current place (rental) to my condo next week. The place I am staying at, my original lease was from May 2009-Apr 2010, but since I knew I was going to move into my place end of June, I signed a month to month lease through June 30, 2010.

In the month to month lease I signed, it stated that I needed to provide a written intent to move 30 days in advance. But when I signed month to month lease at the end of Apr 2010, I verbally told the building manager that I will be moving out at the end of June. I didn't sign the intent to move until today.

Now the building manager told me that I am liable till July 15, 2010 even though I won't be staying there.

Is there anything I can do or I am on the hook for the rent for 15 days?

I have tried talking to the building manager and he said there's nothing he can do. If I don't pay the rent for extra 15 days, they will send it to collection.

[Brian Levredge]

Verbal notice means nothing. I get people/tenants that tell me stuff all the time and I always tell them to put everything in writing including maintenance requests. You may have had good intentions but you are putting the landlord in a sticky situation by not giving the 30 days in writing. You can always try to negotiate it, but you are more or less stuck. They can also deduct from your deposit once they subtracted for expenses.