We've had several renters leave early because of rain. I don't get it, personally. Our official line is we don't refund due to bad weather unless a mandatory evacuation is declared, although we typically work with people when we can--if they are nice about it and don't act like the weather is somehow our fault.
Recently we had one person who wanted to cancel because the forecast called for a 60% chance of rain. First, she lied to us and claimed that she had heard (in Texas, no less) that Walton County was under a mandatory evac. due to TS Cindy, which was hitting Louisiana that day. Would have been funny except that we then spent a couple of hours on the phone on a Saturday trying to verify the truth of it (she later came clean and admitted she simply didn't want rain to "ruin" her trip). Since this was on her check-in day, we told her she could not cancel, but offered to shift her check-in/-out days around. No response until after her scheduled check-out when she demanded a full refund. After her and our attorneys got into it, it was concluded that--due to a loophole in our rental agreement--we would have to refund her. For her, the worst part was that the weather was beautiful the whole time she missed. The worst part for us, though, was we lost the rental, spent money on attorney fees and are now spending even more money on even more attorney fees to tighten up the rental agreement...at a time when we are already losing money hand over fist due to Dennis-related cancellations.
As Tim Robbins said in "Bull Durham"...sometimes it rains.
As for "Office Space"--great movie, one of my all-time favorites and one which I didn't expect to like going into it. Stephen Root (the stapler man...also the blind DJ in "O Brother, Where Art Thou" and Jimmy James on "News Radio") is one of the most underrated actors in da bidness, in my opinion.
