Lease is ending; I need another month

[Glenn Quagmire]

My lease ends May 31. I told my landlord I would not be renewing it sometime in March. I have since decided to buy an apartment but won't close until June 7. I asked the landlord about a month ago if I could stay an additional month; he'd already gotten new tenants but says he has tried calling them, etc., to see if they can push back their date, but they haven't replied.

Would I be creating too much grief for myself by just staying, saying "I can't leave until such-and-such date"? In the meantime I'm trying to find a sublet, so I'm weighing whatever retaliatory action my landlord (or the new tenants) could have against the cost of a month sublet and moving all my stuff into storage for 8 days, etc., then having to move it into the apt I've bought.

[TenantNet]

Are you willing to pay the hotel, restaurant and storage bills for the new tenants while they wait for you?

[Glenn Quagmire]

They live with their parents.

[TenantNet]

How does that matter?

Presuming that the new tenants have signed a lease and that you have given notice to the owner, don't they have a right to have access at the start of their lease term?

If your circumstances have changed, why shouldn't you be responsible for the consequences?

[Glenn Quagmire]

It matters because you mentioned storage and hotel bills, which they won't have. Are there more nebulous damages they can claim? That's what I'm weighing.

"Shouldn't you be responsible for the consequences?" and "don't they have a right to have access?" are more general questions that I'm not disputing.