My attorney is from Michigan and does not know the nuances of Florida law. I will try again so you can understand it.

Lease ended July 12th.

Two week before July 12th renter asked for a 6 month extension verbally and it was agreed to verbally.

Before 6 month extension was signed she moved faster on a home purchase and wanted to then go month to month, to which I agreed as long as she gave me a 60 day notice, to which she agreed verbally.

Renter then emails me on July 19th saying the 19th of Aug is 30 days and she will try to be out by the 12th. She did not even give me 30 days notice which she alludes to but does not come out and say this is her notice of termination.

I contact renter and meet with them and give them back security deposit but tell them I have to wait to see when I rent it, it is their last moths rent. They agree.

There is nothing hard to understand.

The rent she paid by check was for July to August 12.

The last months rent would be for August 12th to September 12th.

I rented the unit out for Septemer 1st.

If you take August 12th to September 1st that comes to 20 days it was not rented or she paid for that I could not get it rented.

20 days x 40 dollars a day is 800 dollars of rent I should have gotten but did not because she did not give the the agreed to time.

She also agreed to keep the electric on till Sept. 1st and did not now I have to pay 15 dollars reconnect fee which she sent me a text admitting.

So 800 plus 15 is 815 dollars.

Instead of me keeping the whole prepaid month I am returning the part I did get the unit rented for.

I feel this is more than fair.

If I buy a motel room for 3 days and at the end of the second day say I don't want it I want my money back that is not going to happen.

Florida law is written that if I as a land lord hold last months rent and take a rent payment I can not make the tenant move out when the rent they just paid is over.

SUPPOSE YOU ARE HOLDING A LAST MONTH’S RENT AND DECIDE TO NON-RENEW A MONTH-TO-MONTH TENANCY? If you are holding a last month’s rent, when you serve your Notice of Non-renewal, you need to state to the tenant in writing that you are applying the last month’s rent to the last month of the tenancy. For example, if you are holding a last month’s rent, you cannot accept rent from the tenant in June and then serve them a Notice of Non- renewal on June 1st stating that they must vacate on June 30th. Your acceptance of June’s rent implies that they can stay until the end of June, and your holding another month’s rent implies that you are not going to make them move at the end of June!

Also what counts for written notice in Florida law? From what I have been reading email and text is not considered written notice by Florida law. So this could put her not even giving me notice officially. Also she pre paid her last months rent, that in and of itself would imply that she owned the time for one month and should give notice based on that.