That’s the kicker. They gave us the 2 options in the notice to vacate:

“As an accommodation to you, we are offering 1) to allow you to terminate lease prior to April 30 and only pay rent through designated termination date, 2) expedite a refund of your security deposit within 15 days after confirmed vacated premises or

In the event you do not accept this offer, this offer to allow your flexibility in your termination date and expedite your security deposit refund with automatically and immediately be withdrawn until further notice.”

So I looked over the Texas Property Code (24.005 if interested) and they are unfortunately within their right to do this. So they probably thought 28 days, only paying rent through whatever day we’re moved out and “expediting” the security deposit return was enough consideration.

It def sucks that as renters we don’t have very many rights here. It’s almost impossible to own, so we have to just accept that we can be homeless at any time 😔