Have been in Thailand for five months and have been happy with my lease/landlord. No problems until now. Over the holidays our client did not submit invoices and this delayed our pay. This has never happened, I explained this to the landlord on January 1st who said we would have to pay by the 15th or be out. We agreed. On the 15th the payment still has not come through. We messaged the owner apologetically and informed her we had vacated and cleaned the apartment. We also informed her that we would unquestioningly forfeit our deposit as we felt awful. We paid our water bill but do not have a current electricity bill. In our minds this was done as per her previous message. She messaged us today and said "no this will it do. You pay half rent now, and pay fines and we keep your deposit."
I am not going to pay the fines as they are not stipulated in our lease. My concern is more of what she can do from here in terms of immigration? We vacated for nonpayment after two weeks. We left it clean. We forfeited a months rent of our deposit.
Does she have any recourse?
I know this is a s**t situation and we feel awful. We tried to communicate and be upfront but...alas....what are your thoughts?
Help with break lease please.
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Hello, here is the situation.
Have been in Thailand for five months and have been happy with my lease/landlord. No problems until now. Over the holidays our client did not submit invoices and this delayed our pay. This has never happened, I explained this to the landlord on January 1st who said we would have to pay by the 15th or be out. We agreed. On the 15th the payment still has not come through. We messaged the owner apologetically and informed her we had vacated and cleaned the apartment. We also informed her that we would unquestioningly forfeit our deposit as we felt awful. We paid our water bill but do not have a current electricity bill. In our minds this was done as per her previous message. She messaged us today and said "no this will it do. You pay half rent now, and pay fines and we keep your deposit."
I am not going to pay the fines as they are not stipulated in our lease. My concern is more of what she can do from here in terms of immigration? We vacated for nonpayment after two weeks. We left it clean. We forfeited a months rent of our deposit.
Does she have any recourse?
I know this is a s**t situation and we feel awful. We tried to communicate and be upfront but...alas....what are your thoughts?