Rent payments to off-campus apartment daughter moved out of?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Commercial RE owners are freaking out that students won’t pay. It all rolls up to larger investors who made money off the 08 financial crisis so don’t worry about this one. Maybe karma?

Whoever co-signed the lease will get their credit hurt. Maybe people won’t care.

No co-signer. We were traveling for work, they let my daughter sign. Now college is cancelled, cafeterias she ate at closed and her job is gone.

Then I guess it’s your daughter’s credit that will be ruined. That’s your choice but it’s not a smart one.

Are you a slumlord?

How can she pay without a job — and why pay for uninhabitable apt? No food or safety? A natural disaster took her job and closed down the place she ate in. Town is a ghost town. Do folks pay rent after a hurricane sweeps thru a coastal town?

If you apartment is in livable condition you absolute pay rent after a hurricane sweeps through town. Don't sign a lease if you don't intend to honor it.

[Anonymous]

There is no question here you pay the rent.

Paying the rent is the least of anyone’s worries in terms of DC health.

This morning we woke up to hospitals building tents don’t you think that’s more important?

[Anonymous]

This is one of the catches with moving off-campus. You're free of all the rules and regs that come with college housing, but that also means you're in the "real world" and not protected by the college. A lease is a lease is a lease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feels like robbery to fulfill a lease?

Seriously....disasters like this reveal people’s true character.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Commercial RE owners are freaking out that students won’t pay. It all rolls up to larger investors who made money off the 08 financial crisis so don’t worry about this one. Maybe karma?

Whoever co-signed the lease will get their credit hurt. Maybe people won’t care.

No co-signer. We were traveling for work, they let my daughter sign. Now college is cancelled, cafeterias she ate at closed and her job is gone.

Then I guess it’s your daughter’s credit that will be ruined. That’s your choice but it’s not a smart one.

Are you a slumlord?

How can she pay without a job — and why pay for uninhabitable apt? No food or safety? A natural disaster took her job and closed down the place she ate in. Town is a ghost town. Do folks pay rent after a hurricane sweeps thru a coastal town?

The apartment doesn't have a kitchen?

[Anonymous]

It would never occur to me not to pay rent per lease obligations as long as I have a job and am able to. What is wrong with you? You want to save a buck and possibly put the landlord in a financial bind. Geez!

[Anonymous]

It’s a fair question. But predictable trolls pile on.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a fair question. But predictable trolls pile on.

The original post seemed innocent enough, and received an answer. But it seems that the OP has come back to justify why he/she thinks the DD should not have to pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a fair question. But predictable trolls pile on.

It was at first. But after awhile OP just looks insanely ridiculous. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Airbnb host here. We had the right (until recently) to hold folks to their reservation commitments. We allowed them to cancel and issued full refunds. I just processed another $300 of lost revenue. It hurts - we have five kids and three in college - but it feels like the right thing to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Airbnb host here. We had the right (until recently) to hold folks to their reservation commitments. We allowed them to cancel and issued full refunds. I just processed another $300 of lost revenue. It hurts - we have five kids and three in college - but it feels like the right thing to do.

Cancelling what is essentially a hotel reservation is not the same as skipping out on a lease.

[Anonymous]

Is this apartment sponsored/contracted by the college? Like at BYU? Or is it just a regular apartment that is close to campus, that has a lot of students in it?

If it's sponsored by the college, read your contract. You might have some options (unlikely, but maybe).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t potus and congress doing something with rent?

The lease is for 4 more months...everyone left, college is basically shut down, her campus job ended.

Every single parent is casually sending landlords remaining rent for housing our kids can’t use?

They may suspend payments but you should ultimately have to pay. They still will have to pay the mortgage on the apartment that you aren't using.

[Anonymous]

I suspect during the first week of April, millions of college student rent checks are not sent to landlords. Possibly prompting action from congress.

[Anonymous]

Probably 10 million college kids rely on campus jobs and food industry jobs to pay their rent. Plus parents are being furloughed and sent home for two and three weeks. Priority will be mortgage and family health, not paying the college town landlord for student housing the kids moved out of.