Help needed
in need of urgent help.
My roommate and I were advised at the end of April that our landlord was looking to renovate our apartment and that we needed to leave the property at the latest at the end of our contract (31 July and 31 August respectively). We started looking for apartments and received our new rental agreement in mid May for June 1st and subsequently notified our landlord (on May 19) Our landlord stated however that due to our late notice, they would keep the deposit as rent for the month of June and asked us to return the keys to them on the 1st of June. Obviously we would prefer to get our deposit back, and we were wondering what our rights were in this situation.
Should we even try to get our deposit back and pressure the landlord? Do we just withhold the keys until the end of June?
any help would be appreciated !!! thank you