Louise Bremner wrote:
> rcaetano <rafael.caetano@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > But I've seen no fixed term, no down
> > > payment apartments in the flyers you get in front of convenience stores
> > > (etc.).
> >
> > I've seen one of those. It looked too good to be true. It was. I
> > learned the contract includes a kind of "sayounara fee" clause. Your
> > landlord gets so heartstrick when you leave that you must compensate
> > him with a 3-months-worth fee. I asked if the landlord would be more
> > pleased if I warned him some time in advance. No, you still have to pay
> > the fee. Rather, if you don't warn then you have to pay more.
>
> That's odd--what's to stop the tenent from simply walking away? (That's
> what I thought the key money, etc., was for.)

The guarantor, I suppose?

Rafael Caetano