Missouri
Our lease was up at end of June. Our agreement lets us go month to month with 30 day notice to terminate. Landlord verbally told us that rent was increasing on July 1st. We paid the increased rent amount for July.
After we paid we noticed that the lease agreement says "Modification: The parties hereby agree that this document contains the entire agreement between the parties and this agreement shall not be modified, changed, altered or amended in any way expect through a written amendment signed by all the parties hereto.
We gave notice of the 30 days on July 22nd. Our question is for the pro rated rent from August 1st to August 21st do we pro rate based on the verbal increased rent amount or can we default back to the agreement and pro rate from the previous rent amount since the rent increase was never in writing and signed by all parties?
Also, are we correct in that since it said that we only have to give 30 day notice to terminate and we gave notice in middle of month that the next month would be pro rated to equal the total 30 days?
Our lease was up at end of June. Our agreement lets us go month to month with 30 day notice to terminate. Landlord verbally told us that rent was increasing on July 1st. We paid the increased rent amount for July.
After we paid we noticed that the lease agreement says "Modification: The parties hereby agree that this document contains the entire agreement between the parties and this agreement shall not be modified, changed, altered or amended in any way expect through a written amendment signed by all the parties hereto.
We gave notice of the 30 days on July 22nd. Our question is for the pro rated rent from August 1st to August 21st do we pro rate based on the verbal increased rent amount or can we default back to the agreement and pro rate from the previous rent amount since the rent increase was never in writing and signed by all parties?
Also, are we correct in that since it said that we only have to give 30 day notice to terminate and we gave notice in middle of month that the next month would be pro rated to equal the total 30 days?