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If you move in with a roommate and move stuff from storage on December 22
and them move in the next month on January 2nd
is your rent due the of January 22nd or the 2nd of February?
Read your contract. Typically security deposit and first month's rent are due when the keys are received. If the roommate and you are under a single lease, the monies are due when the first of you receives the keys or moves in (or when the lease starts). If under separate leases, then yours is due when you receive the keys (or the lease begins) and your roommate's due when they move in (or their lease begins).
There is no lease, keys were given on the 22nd because the person storing the stuff wanted to leave stuff and not have to depend on the other one to be home to bring it in and the person storing stuff paid as a good faith effort not that he was moving in that day. The person storing stuff thought that the person renting to him was just doing him a favor by letting him store stuff early. The person didn't need to bring the stuff early and did not expect to start paying on the 22nd.
You pay for any days you had possession unless you had an agreement beforehand to not. As for the due date that should have been discussed ahead of time.
Last edited by AZ Manager; 01-22-2016 at 01:57 PM..
The person renting out the room would have lost nothing because he had agreed to rent out the room starting in January,
The person renting the room lost a few hundred dollars in rental storage fees for those 11 days by having to pay the rent early the next month. His understanding was that the rent would start at the beginning of the month. Had he been told he had to pay rent from the moment he left something at the place he would not have left anything there and kept it in storage.
His understanding was that the rent would start at the beginning of the month. Had he been told he had to pay rent from the moment he left something at the place he would not have left anything there and kept it in storage.
Looks like he learned a lesson. Typically you are considered 'in possession' as soon as you get the keys or move your stuff in, even if you aren't living there. Or sooner if the lease says it starts sooner. Some people grab a rental earlier so they don't lose out on that rental and then move in weeks later.
So you friend took possession early by moving his stuff there early. He should have squared away this with the landlord. Sounds like the landlord wants rent for those early days which the landlord isn't in the storage business. So landlord allowed your friend to take possession early.
Agree that you are "in possession" when you get the keys and start occupying the unit or your stuff occupies the unit, unless other arrangements are agreed upon ahead of time. Rent is often due the first of the month. In most places I've lived, including where I am now, rent would be prorated from December 22nd, with full rent (plus prorated rent, if not already paid) due Jan 1 and monthly payment due every month on the 1st.
These types of arrangements really need to be clarified ahead of time. Both people are probably learning that.
Also the person who is acting as LL and renting out the room had a fight with his roommate in November, it was so bad that they left that same month but since they didn't give notice they paid the December rent, so the LL roommate was already paid for December and charged storage fees from Dec 22 to Jan 1 to the new roommate. So he collected rent twice for those days.
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