Moving is a lot harder than you think, especially when you're moving your whole family and you're the primary applicant and decision maker.
Today it was securing application approval, organizing the family for the lease signing, and negotiating a 2 week over-lap with my current landlord (and roommate) so I hopefully can get the entire security deposit AND a rent reduction.
Basically, I am willing to do an extra week to do right by him and protect my deposit... but if he gets greedy I am not going to pay extra to protect the deposit - its 1000 that he might essentially steal from me ANYWAYS. And Dave didn't exactly offer to help at all (or give me full notice) so I'm not trying to protect his half.
I could say something like, "if I do the extra week, do you promise not to deduct the 4th week from my deposit", but then they can just lie to you / you're planting the seed that they can steal your deposit.
At the end of the day, just do right by others and yourself. 2 weeks vacancy is not bad at all. If he wants the whole 2 extra weeks, just pay him 1450 and say "I'll be out by the 15th. Your turn." There's really not much he can do - even if he makes threats, they'd be pretty hollow. And they won't do that.
If he says "lets compromise" then fuck it.. lose the extra 725 and make people happy.
If he says "you know what, no prob, just pay 1450" then great, we're good to go.
No matter what, I'm not paying 3k for a place I'll be in for a few days. 2 weeks is me being nice... I could try to pay nothing if I really wanted to be a scumbag.
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