Hi all,
Your advice is needed on whether I should keep staying past my contract cut-off date to use up any outstanding money of mine that the landlord have as a deposit of sorts.
First off, if I move by my current planned date, there will be an outstanding amount of roughly HKD$10,000, plus an additional 2 months' rental deposit that the landlord will owe me. The extra HKD 10k+ is due to a f*ck*ng bank system error that resulted in rental payment made to the landlord twice on my behalf... but that's a separate long story, so I won't go there. Landlord knows it's a mistake as well and I have a written record of this.
Now I know that it's typical for the last 2 months of the contract payment to be done out of the deposit, which minimizes the chance of landlord screwing you over the deposit refund.
But in my case, even if I were to do this, the contract would expire and I would still have the outstanding HKD 10k+ to recover.
Should I continue to stay beyond my contract cutoff until the 10K+ is completely used up? I will assume the current monthly rental rate since I wouldn't have signed on to a new contract (presumably under a higher rate) by then.
Thanks