Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

It depends, to a large degree how, or if, you documented the agreement with the landlord regarding your daughter's early surrender of possession. Without an agreement to the contrary, the landlord probably cannot re-let the room, and double-up on rent. For periods where he or she actually collected rent for the space, he or she would probably have to credit your daughter back the amounts actually collected. There are a lot of possible variations to this - too many to go through here, but know that regardless of whether the landlord can or cannot do this, he is very likely to do so anyway, putting your daughter in a position of having to sue to get any money back.

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