If you don’t have a lease you pay what you paid before. Lets say that your lease is coming due and the landlord raises your rent. You do not accept the raise and you choose to move out. You are entitled to a reasonable amount of time to find another apartment but you still have to pay rent until you find that apartment. That doesn’t meant that you have to be on the street the minute the lease is up. He has to give you sufficient time to find a similar and/or accommodating apartment according to your family’s needs that you can afford. That is why trying to evict a tenant takes so long. In the mean time you don’t have to pay the raise you didn’t accept but you still have to pay the rent you were paying till now. That is what the court will tell you. In fact this could take years if he in fact tries to evict you. Since in this case the OP already has a place to move to it is not a problem worth more than a couple of months and he should be menthlich and pay the rent minus the security deposit.
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