D Calculation of Rental Payments in Arrears
This Court hereby finds Defendants responsible for $29,420 in rental payments in arrears. Prior to the rent increase, Defendants lived at the Lincoln property from March 2008, through October of 2008. Although Mr. Halpin intended for the rental increase to *Page 9
take affect on October 15, 2008, because the lease began on the first of the following month, and operated in one month intervals, the rent increase could only take affect on the first of the following month. Therefore, this Court finds that the rental increase took effect on November 1, 2008. As such, Defendants are responsible for eight months of rent at $750.00 per month, to cover the period from March 1, 2008, through the end of October, 2008, which totals $6000.00. Defendants are further responsible for twenty months of rent at $1,171.00, for the period beginning November 1, 2008, through the end of June, 2010, which totals $23,420.00. As such, Defendants owe a total of $29,420.00 in back rental payments.