I take it this is a standard practice in Hong Kong?
I'm moving from one place to another. Moving into a new place Aug 1st. My current place the lease ends July 21st so I asked for an extension to July 31st.
They said if I'm not out by 23:59 July 31st I need be charged for Aug 1st.
I'd be charged double rent for August 1st. That might sound like only 1 day but paying an extra $1500-$1600 HKD when I'm moving out in the morning sucks. That still hurts to pay that much money for an empty apt.
And I'm not going to even think about moving on July 31st and paying more at the new place, because that place is much more expensive.
So there's no way of getting out of this double rent day on Aug 1st is there?
Theoretically I could, but I'm not going to wait until 11:59pm at the old place then jump into a moving van with the kids and run over to the new place by 12:30AM Aug 1st.
I could spend that $1500 moving into a hotel room on the 31st evening, enjoying the facilities, then checking out in the morning heading to my new apt. That way at least I got to enjoy that $1500. But that's probably kind of lame.
Just wanted to know if everyone gets double hit on moving day, I'm not used to that. Even in more formal bigger apt complexes in the U.S. I never had that happen, heck with my personal apts I'd give them 3-4 days to move in if they wanted it.
Oh well, not much I can do about it...