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  • Personal experience: some apartment we’d been renting gave us back our whole security deposit, which we weren’t expecting, because cat. But yay!

    Couple months pass, they get hold of us and are all “Wait a second, you owe us $1200, because we have to replace the carpet.”

    I imagine we could have just told them to pound sand at that point, but we’d started thinking about getting a mortgage preapproval, and didn’t want this to be a problem. So we agreed to pay them $50/month.

    We paid them like five times over the course of ten months. They’d send us angry letters, and we’d finally send them a check.

    The moment we got a mortgage approved, we stopped paying them. They sent a couple more angry letters, which we ignored. Never heard a thing about it again. Nothing happened with credit reports. No civil suit.

    As above, if it’s “two months notice,” and OP was shy on that by three days, the most they could possibly owe is three days’ rent.

    Nothing will happen if OP does not pay them. Can something happen? Sure, something very very small. But it won’t. And there’s zero harm in finding out. Worst case, old landlord sells the debt to collections for Pennie’s on the dollar, OP clears it with collections for nickels on the dollar, still coming out way ahead.