I am in an apartment with a year lease that is bound to end at the end of this year. We need to leave Taiwan before then, and I just gave the landlord 30 days notice the other day, on the day I paid rent through 9/15. We had given her 1st and last months rent (2 months rent) as a deposit. It was pre…

My leases here have always stated that if the contract is broken early by the tenant, the tenant will forfeit one month of the deposit but will get the second month refunded. (Conversely, if the owner breaks the lease then the tenant is credited one month’s worth of rent). Every time except once I’v…

She just found out so maybe that’s a knee jerk reaction. She’s been fairly helpful and pleasant - accomodating I think - from the beginning and so far.

The “old” law was no return for early move out but this was changed a number of years ago. If you give notice equal to your rent payment interval, e.g. 30 days if you pay monthly, then you are entitled to full return of deposit less legitimate expenses, if outstanding. Legitimate expenses are water/…

Ok; this is exactly the way I understood it to work. Are the monies, our deposit, (less utilities) due in full at the time we return the keys? This lady does not strike me as a savvy business type, meaning it is possible that’s just the way she learned and so far no one has called her on it, so she…

[image] noWhiners: Are the monies, our deposit, (less utilities) due in full at the time we return the keys? Yes! [image] noWhiners: This lady does not strike me as a savvy business type Taiwanese landlords for the most part are amateur landlords who happen to have empty property rath…

General rule of thumb for less than one year living on a year contract, one month returned, one month gone astray. Although, if anything written and signed in contract will overrule the above. After a year, you could expect a full refund from some landlord.

[image] arcticsquid: General rule of thumb for less than one year living on a year contract, one month returned, one month gone astray. There is legislation covering rental rules, not some arbitrary “rule of thumb”.

Yes, win-win is the way; that’s sound advice. Thank you !

Would you be able to direct me to the new law? I am looking through this: https://law.moj.gov.tw/ENG/LawClass/LawAll.aspx?pcode=D0060125 And I only see no penalty for early termination if living conditions become too difficult or other misc reasons (article 11). The landlord I am talking to now i…

Below direct copy paste from 財團法人崔媽媽基金會官網 (tmm.org.tw) email circular. Run it through Google translate as necessary. 租期未到，房客可提前退租嗎？圖.文／崔媽媽基金會「我可以跟房東提前退租嗎？」是在崔媽媽基金會法律諮詢中，最常聽見的問題之一。因為房客在租屋過程中，面臨的所有問題與糾紛，若沒有獲得妥善解決，往往最後的選擇都是提前將租約終止。而伴隨著「提前終止租約」的提出，最常被討論的，就是「押金如何返還？」、「預付租金如何處理？」及「違約金支付」等糾紛。因此如…

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