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I'm not sure if this applies to your situation, but my girlfriend was renting a room in a house and the time came for her to move out. The landlord went away on vacation and during that time we moved her stuff out, and after a couple days, we went back to the room to clean it up. She still had a week left, but they had already moved someone else into the room and tried to charge her for not cleaning up.

I forget the name of this exactly, but it is illegal for the landlord to rent out a space to two different people at the same time. She ended up having to pay my girlfriend twice the amount of rent, for the time the room was double occupied (2 weeks). This was in California, and I'm sure it's different in other states, so you may want to ask a lawyer about that.