<prompt> Human: Hello all. Ive posted about this previously but I think I maybe explained it in a confusing way and I left out important details and the issue is still on-going so Id like to post again with different wording if thats okay. :So Im an American teaching English in Spain. Basically I am here on a grant and get paid 700 euros a month. One of the teachers at my school had recently moved to a new flat, but still owned the old one. Since it was going to basically be sitting there empty, she rented it to me for a very cheap price and basically told me I just want someone to look after it for me ok great, I can do that.She charged me 250 euros a month, not including watergaslight etc so I was usually paying around 350400 a month which I still dont believe was the real price of bills but she never showed me any statements. I paid her in cash in person each month. So the main thing Im trying to get across is that she is not a professional renter and was basically renting this flat to me in a very informal under the table way. She was definitely not paying any taxes on the income and our contract that she typed up ended in May of last year but she let me continue living there through the summer, and I paid her each month the same.Side note: This woman was incredibly difficult to deal with and constantly harassed me. If I was 1 day late with rent which I often was because the only way to pay her was to find her in person in a school of 70 teachers, she would barge into my classroom and demand that I pay her in front of the students. She yelled in my face many times about ridiculous things the neighbor told me you are letting some of the plants die, how dare you, etc. However I paid her every single month within the first couple of days of the month, took very good care of her apartment, and was basically a good renter.___So as I said before, our contract ended in May, but she was happy to get more money so she said I could stay there however long I wanted and she told me I could stay there next year tooIn early July I had a family emergency back in the States. I also had to get surgery. I had about two days to pack up all of my belongings and fly home for the month of August and September. On July 6th, I told her that I had to leave immediately and she told me to leave the rent money on the kitchen table about 400 euros for the whole month of July, so I did.During the summer she sent me several messages saying we needed to talk but didnt tell me about what. I assumed it was something silly like usual.I returned to Spain on September 25th, and a few days later she came over to talk to me. She told me she wanted to increase the rent by 100 euros and if I couldnt afford the increase, then I had one week to completely move out. I told her that I couldnt afford it, so Id move out. Two days later she told me someone else was interested in seeing the apartment so I had to move out by Monday thus giving me a total of 2 business days to move out. Also this was 100 a lie, she did not have anyone coming on Monday, she just wanted to scare me into paying her more.Miraculously, with the help of some of the teachers I work with, I found another apartment to move to and completely moved out within her time frame. I was annoyed, pissed off, etc, but I figured that was the last Id hear of her I assumed shed leave me alone because holy hell everything she did was super illegal___Well, a month later she pulled me into a classroom and began yelling at me. She yelled at me for tons of crazy things like not cleaning the fridge well enough? She told me that I owed her money. She said she wanted me to pay her half a months rent for the week and a half that I was in her apartment this year while looking for a new flat after kicking me out. I told her that I didnt think that was fair because I paid for the entire month of July even though I was only there for 10 days. In other words, I told her that if shes going to split hairs and charge me half a months rent for like 10 days of living there, then shouldnt the 20 days in July cover it? Furthermore, I told her that shes being unfair because she should have told me about the rent increase with more than less than 1 weeks notice. She had two months to tell me but she didnt: She waited to tell me so that I wouldnt have enough time to find something else. TL;DR: I rented an apartment informally from a coworker. She suddenly raised the rent by 100 euros and only gave me 2 business days to find somewhere else to live. I paid the entire month of July but only stayed there until July 10th, and now she wants me to pay for the week and a half that I stayed there before she kicked me out. Im trying to resolve this calmly and find a fair solution, but there is a language barrier and she doesnt want to talk to me, she just wants to yell at me and insult me.Is she right? Am I right? Im genuinely unsure. I kind of just want to pay her to get her to leave me alone.  <response>: The fact that you didnt spend all of one month you paid for at the apartment isnt relevant. Landlords dont give you a break just because you are on vacation.The last ten days you owe her for, as she couldnt rent the place.You should pay her a prorated amount for the days of the month you were there.She does sound unhinged and probably kicked you out in hopes of finding a better paying tenant. Glad youre out of there. Since you work with her, Id just do what it takes to get her to stop harassing you. 