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violet-shift t1_iv5i40l wrote

Reply to comment by milehigh2084 in apartment leasing agreement by milehigh2084

> Awesome thanks! My rent increased but the notice only went out with 60 days notice, should have been 75 days of I read it correctly!

This is technically correct -- per the DC code, if you're required to give 60 days notice before vacating the property, they're required to give you 75 days notice before a rent increase.

However, if your lease ended 12/1 and they gave you the notice on 9/2, they actually gave you 90 days notice. So the rent increase is allowed by those rules.

Secondly, if you gave them notice on 10/8, you're on the hook til 12/8. Thus, the extra 8 days they're requiring you to pay. That would be true even if the rent increase was incorrect some how.

Finally, they are required to try to mitigate damages in a reasonable way. That is, they do have some responsibility for attempting to lease the apartment once you've given notice that you're leaving; they can't just have the apartment be empty for months after you've gone and charge you without attempting to let it. However, I don't think that really applies to your case, right? It's a relatively short notice and you're only on the hook for 8 days.

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milehigh2084 OP t1_iv9vqjs wrote

That's what's I was told via email, that I was responsible for 8 days. I am hoping that's is it and I'll know if that's is that Monday. So if I am paying for those 8 extra days, I don't have to move out per agreement on my lease until that 8 days are up?

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milehigh2084 OP t1_ixc91o0 wrote

So I just saw an email from my rent payment portal for the charge of next month's bill. I have it on email from them that I can still move out but pay the 8 days..not sure if that's an error or they are charging me the whole month...anything I can do if that if that is the case?

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milehigh2084 OP t1_ixel8zs wrote

I agreed to pay up to the 12/8 date but the rent portal shows otherwise.

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