<prompt> Human: Hey reddit, hope you guys might have some advice for me.My lease is up August 31. I was renting an apt that ended up being a bit out of my price range. My husband and I have been living paycheck to paycheck to cover rent here. Currently 1250month Lurking on rpersonal finance really helped open my eyes to this so we decided to make a change.The rent was going up a good deal at lease renewal time and we def wouldnt have been able to do that. We turned in our notice to vacate just a little 3 line form my husband fills out in the office and we found a place for almost half what we pay here and applied thinking we were all set. New place calls saying that my current apt wont release my info. I call to see whats up and they say we never gave them notice. Now, we fucked up and didnt get a copy, to be honest, Ive never gotten or been offered a copy by any apt Ive lived in. But theyre saying its their policy to always give a copy I do have proof this isnt the case and if I dont have one I must not have turned it in. We turned in another one so theyd release our info and I got accepted at the new place. But now theyre saying since I didnt give notice soon enough Im going to owe rent until mid October at the month to month price of 1500. The proof I have that they either dont have a policy of giving a copy or at least dont follow it is that when we turned in the second notice we still werent offered a copy...There is no way in hell Im going to pay 3000 for the offices incompetence in losing my first notice. Even if I wouldnt on principle I dont have the money. At this point Id rather take the eviction when I dont pay rent on sep 1. But I dont really know all the fallout that can come of this. Ive tried reaching out to their corporate contacts but havent gotten anything yet and my leasing office isnt returning phone calls.What are my options here? Do I really have any? What can they do to me I assume mark this as an eviction and send me to collections?  <response>: Read the lease you signed at the current place and see if there is some kind of auto-renewal. This is actually not uncommon, often a lease will go month-to-month when it ends if there is no other arrangement, but it could be that it extends by 3 months at a time.The lease will also specify what has to be done to terminate the lease, might be something like give written notice etc. See if you have complied with that. In my experience most people dont actually read the lease they sign until later when there is some kind of dispute.If you have any text messages or emails about giving notice that could be something you could show them that has a date on it indicating that you gave notice.Speaking as a landlord, when a tenant leaves, I never want to try to stick them with unfair expenses, but vacancies are what really kill the economics of owning a rental property. My 1 priority is always to avoid vacancy. The best way to do this is to get a lot of advance notice from tenants so I can find another tenant. Once I find a new tenant I am happy to let the old tenant stop paying, even if they have time left on their lease, Im not trying to screw them or get paid twice, but I just want to limit vacancy.I am guessing that the old landlord is not trying to screw you over an administrative mix-up but apparently somehow never learned that youre leaving and so hasnt been marketing the property, now theyre looking at you leaving in 2 weeks and them being stuck with a vacant property. Realistically if they find a new tenant they probably wont care what happens to you but theyre probably giving themselves 3 months just in case.Theoretically if you walk away from a lease you still owe the landlord the money and in theory they can come after you, file a suit in small claims court, garnish your wages, etc. In practice this rarely happens since its easier to just find a tenant, unless there are extenuating circumstances.Go in and talk to them and see if they will be reasonable, offer to help in any way you can to re-rent the place for example making it look great and offer to let them show it while youre still living there. If that doesnt work you could just refuse to pay and see what happens. You could also delay the start date at the new place so at least you wouldnt have to pay both rents.Good luck. 