The owners are not unreasonable – I just think they’re hanging on to their HELOC-funded empire by their fingernails.
I’m comfortable with letting them know – by June 30th – that we plan to be out of the rental by August 2nd and want to use our deposit as last month’s rent. I’ll offer to let them come by and do an inspection after we’ve moved out.
If they feel that repairs are needed, and we agree, we’ll arange to make repairs. This seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I truly believe they would only freak out over this if they had no intention of returning the deposit in the first place. Because they’d be missing out on an easy $2300.
As I’ve said in other posts, the owners are nice people when financial bankruptcy often leads to moral bankruptcy in the name of “survival.”
I will also look over our lease and see what it says. It was a boiler plate document.
