Same Situation like you with rent for less than 2 years and buying house, loosing 2.5 month for early termination crap. but luckily when I first moved in, I noticed that the microwave handle plastic was little broken and sent a photo to management notifying them. They took $165 from my security deposit when I left. I sent back old photo with time stamp and dug my old email and they apologized and gave me money back.