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No, it's merely a separate decision. Given that they have decided to cancel the lease, for good reasons or bad, the question then is what they do with the lease
by db48x 2mo ago
No, it's merely a separate decision. Given that they have decided to cancel the lease, for good reasons or bad, the question then is what they do with the lease payments. I am pretty sure that you would not be happy if your landlord wanted to evict you and also wanted you to keep paying rent.
- glaslong 2mo agoWhen and why was the decision to cancel, and how was the money already allocated not part of that though? I can't say I've ever signed a lease where the terms of payment or deposit return weren't extremely clear and part of my decision to move in.
- glaslong 2mo agoI posit that "to halt operations" is actually related to "$1.2B deal to pay", in TFA. In similar manner to how "Hacker" and "News" are fantastically separate utterances, but when we're talking on Hacker News it's pretty regularly a package deal, not an exercise in Levenshtein distance from "Hacker" to "News".
- db48x 2mo agoYes, returning the money is a consequence of terminating the lease. That’s precisely what I said!
- db48x 2mo agoYes, I am quite certain that the contract was quite explicit about the terms of cancellation. That’s certainly relevant, but we still had the opportunity to refuse to return the money even though it would certainly have ended up in a lawsuit. Would that have been better? No, I do not think that it would have been. In fact, it would have been unethical, possibly even fraud. Articles that phrase this as additional money being paid rather than money being returned are deliberately misleading.