hannukah harry

okay, here's the situation.

i'm subletting in an apartment, living with 2 girls. i'm sharing a room with one of them. i do not have a signed sublease. they didn't require one. they didn't require a deposit either.

now, we didn't really determine how long i would be subletting for. basically it was that i would move in, and stay for the semester, maybe the summer. about a month ago, around spring break, i spoke to my roommate and she asked what my plans were for the summer. i told her i was looking at moving into a grad school co-op. she said that was good because she had a friend that wanted to move in. we didn't set any dates or anything like that.

anyways, last week, my roommate left a note for me saying that the person was going to be moving in on 4/25 or 4/26 (i think it's been confirmed for the 26th, but i wasn't really paying attention to her bitching earlier tonight). now, this is a problem for me. at the moment, i haven't found a new place to move into. moving home is probably what i'm going to do, and if so, then i'm planning on staying until the 30th, to avoid the commute.

so this evening, the roommate told me that she'd be moving in on whatever day, i told her that wasn't going to work since i was planning at the moment staying until the 30th. she left and later the apartment-mate told me that i was going to have to be out by the 27th. i told her 'no.' i told her my sublease runs through the end of the month, and the new person can move in when i'm out. she disagrees.

she thinks my rent runs from the 27th of the month to the 27th of the next month. this is because they paid rent on dec. 27 before going on vacation. according to her, they also pay rent everymonth by then, although when they had me turn it in while they were gone for spring break, i did it on the 1st, maybe the day before. no problem had.

i say my rent runs from the 1st to the 30th/31st (depending on the length of the month). if i wanted to get technical with them, i could say it is from the day i moved in to the equivalent day minus one (so jan 4th - feb 3rd) the day we had agreed i would move in was the 2nd, so that could also be used as the start date. probably should be used as the start date. (i didn't move in until the 4th because i talked with the apartment-mate who said i should wait until the 3rd because the roommate wouldn't be back until then, and then the roommate said that she wouldn't be back until the late third and they were having a bunch of friends stay for a few days so i should wait until the 4th).

so, to recap:

paid rent around dec 15th, because was going out of town and they needed to pay january rent before they left to go out for vacation.

supposed to move in on jan 2, they pushed it back to the 4th.

moved in on jan 4th, no written sublet agreement, no security deposit. no sublease term dates.

they want summer roommate to move in april 25/26.

i don't plan on moving out until april 30.

they say my sublease ends the 27th (based on when they pay rent), i say it ends april 30th.

am i right? am i wrong?

as it is, the apartment-mate went and told me that she wants me out as soon as possible, she'll even pay me back the pro-rated rent, so i may just do that. to soem extent, i think i wnat to stay until the 30th just to be an asshole, but i'll let the money talk.

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