<prompt> Human: Long story short: My wife and I have known for a long time that wed be closing on a house on July 15th. I had gone to the apartment offices to give written notice to vacate on August 1st. They told me to come back closer to the 60 days, e.g. to sign and turn in the notice on or around June 1st. Things are busy for me, and I am just getting around to turning the notice in today, the 10th. They want to pro-rate the days up to August 10th at the month to month rate, which equals around 450. We wont even be in the apartment at this point, its just unnecessary to ask us to pay almost half a months rent for 10 extra days where we wont be using the apartment.Ive already argued with the leasing manager, asking her to simply put August 1st on the paperwork, and she wont budge. Do I have any recourse to not pay this money? If I dont pay, what are the consequences? I also asked her who I can talk to as a point of escalation and she simply said that I wouldnt get a different answer from anybody higher up.Is there anything I can do here?  <response>: When they told you to come back closer to june 1 you should have just insisted they accept your notice. The law states AT LEAST 60 DAYS prior, so there is no harm in giving notice with a longer period than that. You should have forced them to take your notice. Do you have any proof of presenting the notice ahead of 60 days? Anything in writing, an e-mail or anything? If not, I think you are SOL. The management company can hold you liable for the 450 required to make it a 60 day notice, and frankly youre lucky they are working with you on that. Most tenancy codes are written in such a way that they can hold you liable for the rent payment until the next payment due date, which would effectively be a whole months worth of rent. They will likely sell the debt off to collections to come after you if you dont pay it, or withhold that amount out of your security deposit the more likely scenario. Most codes state that the security deposit can be used to pay rent delinquencies and penalties. 