<prompt> Human: Personal Finance helped my last dilema but now Ive got something a little trickier. I recently had to travel from Washington to Montana for work. It was about an 8 hour drive and was going to be for 3 months at least. I started doing some research on places to stay, hotels were awfully expensive, 1600 a month, so I decided to hit up Craigslist to see what I could find there. Well I found a really good deal, this guy and his lady friend have a house in great falls and they had an extra bedroom they were wanting to rent out for 400month, pretty good deal so I accepted, drove to Montana and gave him 800, first and last month rent. Ive been here 2 days now and I have to go home tomorrow due to a family emergency. I wont be coming back either. So I let my roommate know and he said he already spent more than half of the 800. Im obviously not going to pay that much for just a few days but being that I have to leave tomorrow, I dont know what to do. I dont think its a legal thing yet because up until a few hours ago, we both thought I was going to be here for 3 more months. I also dont know how to handle this. I need help and fast. He goes to work at 630am which is only 5.5 hours from now and I just got off work, am going to sleep until 530, which is when he gets up and talk to him about the situation.  <response>: If you had signed a 3 month lease agreement, then you could probably be held to owe the other month as well. Just be glad that you dont and accept whatever he is willing to give you back. You made a verbal agreement to rent the room for three months and paid accordingly. Its you who is breaking the agreement, not the other party. 