Off-Campus Apartments Leases especially College Park

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Anonymous wrote:Offer to find a new tenant to take over the lease. If you can find someone that will pass the credit check, etc then the landlord might release you from the contract. Alternatively, you can request that they find a new tenant and pay the rent until they find someone new. Until you talk to the landlord you will not know what they are willing to do with regard to negotiating. I am a landlord and have worked with tenants in 3 of my properties regarding the need to leave the lease early. I let one group go one month early (lost that month), offered to find a new tenant for another (they lost their security deposit to pay the last month, but got out of 4 additional months) and gave 1/2 rent for 2 months to the other group. I worked with the tenants to find solutions after they came to me asking for help. Talk to your landlord, be polite and reasonable.

Bottom line, YOU signed the contract for your kid to live off-campus so you signed into an obligation. It is not the landlord's fault this happened and, truthfully, your kid could live in the apartment. UMD did not require off-campus students to leave their properties. You are simply choosing for them not live there. That is your choice, not a requirement.
However, reasonable people respond to requests for assistance. Calling into question the validity of a contract or the fairness will not get you anywhere. Working toward a solution will, but remember you have a contract which is an obligation. Has your employer stopped paying their rent/mortgage on the space even though they are shut down? Of course not....

Employers are getting either free grants and interest-free loans in order to pay for their rent, so not sure what point you are making. I would happily pay the $1000/month if the government was paying it for me.

The landlord is a apartment building company, not an individual person. As a landlord, what would you do if a renter simply moved out and stopped paying rent?

DP, but I would sue. And win.

Heavily doubt it, you'd lose more on attorney costs than the winnings and most juries would be far more sympathetic to the renter considering the current conditions.

Most likely you'd settle for half the owed amount to avoid going to court.

This would be in small claims court, where you represent yourself, and which does not have a jury (and even if it was a jury trial, I'd win on summary judgment).

Civil court always has right to a jury. You can represent yourself as a unscrupulous landlord suing a 20-something broke college student who can't pay rent because they lost their part-time college job due to the lockdown, over $3000. Try it honey.

Or the small claims court judge might see unscrupulous parents who can $900 for a room trying it on.

Oh I'm sure the judge would empathize with a landlord over parents struggling during a global pandemic, especially a sympathetic landlord like you. Lmao.

The judge might empathize with the parents, or the broke student, but that has nothing to do with it. There’s law and a contract and that’s it.

Again, this is about a jury trial, not a judge.

Jury trial? Wouldn’t this be small claims or housing court?

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No jury trial.

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Anonymous wrote:Canada just announced students getting $1,200 / month through August.

I can't imagine students in the US will not receive any relief money.

Shame on people who assume the kids are paying out of pocket and have not had to take loans out for school. What a bubble DCUM lives in. It's pathetic.

I had to cosign but I'm not paying for his college. He is.

They can't work their universities jobs, they're not earning money to pay their rent and buy food.

Umm, this isn't Canada, you better believe your US representatives will forget to pay college students.

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This post has fallen off the rails and gone crazy.

If you signed a contract, you have to honor it. If you can't, or won't, there may be legal repercussions.

Sorry life is tough. We can't all pass the buck.

Fortunately for me, we were overpaying for a campus apartment, and so we don't need to worry about this.

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Anonymous wrote:This post has fallen off the rails and gone crazy.

If you signed a contract, you have to honor it. If you can't, or won't, there may be legal repercussions.

Sorry life is tough. We can't all pass the buck.

Fortunately for me, we were overpaying for a campus apartment, and so we don't need to worry about this.

Again, why are you posting on this thread if you are acquiescing and paying? This thread is for parents who don't want to pay for an overpaid apartment that their student aren't using due to a global pandemic.

And millions of corporations, private equity firms and small businesses are passing the buck onto tax payers. Now go back to your cats.

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Where did I say colleges weren't doing that?

My DC's college has kept needy students on campus and housed. Do you think there are pots of cash left over after that to pay off the private sector rent of students like OP's kid who is now sitting at home?

I'm referring above to the fact the OP is whining about the college "owing" them money on a lease with a private landlord when there are students on whom colleges are spending money because those students truly are in need. Those are the students in line for colleges' help, way ahead of greedy OP. Sorry you don't get that. Students being helped by their colleges with housing right now do not include those who have elsewhere to go safely.

Lady, you need to get out of this thread and back to your cats.

The OP is not whining about anything. The OP has made it clear that this is a place for parents who don't want to pay out a lease that is not being used, to discuss options. OP is asking about getting out of a lease with a private company, not a college. Either read the thread, join the discussion to be had - what can be done about the lease - or get out of the thread and go back to your cats and pathetic marriage.

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This thread is full of slumlord parasites.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of slumlord parasites.

No, I think this thread is a mix of responsible parents vs. one poster insisting they are all cat ladies...!

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With "pathetic marriages."

Bizarre how his absurd stereotypes are plastered throughout his posts. No wonder his poor child wanted to rent an apartment instead of live home. The kids would probably pay double the rent to be there now.

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Anonymous wrote:Canada just announced students getting $1,200 / month through August.

I can't imagine students in the US will not receive any relief money.

Shame on people who assume the kids are paying out of pocket and have not had to take loans out for school. What a bubble DCUM lives in. It's pathetic.

I had to cosign but I'm not paying for his college. He is.

They can't work their universities jobs, they're not earning money to pay their rent and buy food.

Umm, this isn't Canada, you better believe your US representatives will forget to pay college students.

IDK, they already paid the colleges. They stated that they expect the college give the money to students.

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Anonymous wrote:This post has fallen off the rails and gone crazy.

If you signed a contract, you have to honor it. If you can't, or won't, there may be legal repercussions.

Sorry life is tough. We can't all pass the buck.

Fortunately for me, we were overpaying for a campus apartment, and so we don't need to worry about this.

During a national emergency certain "contacts" are not legal anymore. For example, you don't have to pay the rent, you can just stop paying and they can not evict you. So no... the argument that "you signed a contract" does not hold.

Just like you signed a contract with credit card and now they are going to stop interest from accruing.

This is why we pay taxes, so during a time of need ... especially for those that have contributed their whole life... there are protections.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my offices are closed, and will be for to months in total (if not more). Should we be able to stop paying rent on the space?

there is nothing preventing your kid from living in his apartment now, and for the rest of your lease term. When he doesn't use it by choice, it's still an obligation. How is this not obvious?

While I appreciate that a contract is a contract, big companies are not paying their rents, so why should the little people?

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Anonymous wrote:With "pathetic marriages."

Bizarre how his absurd stereotypes are plastered throughout his posts. No wonder his poor child wanted to rent an apartment instead of live home. The kids would probably pay double the rent to be there now.

Seriously! It is weird how if someone disagrees with you they are suddenly a cat lady or have a bad marriage. WTF?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is full of slumlord parasites.

Pretty much, yeah. Its gross and disgusting.

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Anonymous wrote:This post has fallen off the rails and gone crazy.

If you signed a contract, you have to honor it. If you can't, or won't, there may be legal repercussions.

Sorry life is tough. We can't all pass the buck.

Fortunately for me, we were overpaying for a campus apartment, and so we don't need to worry about this.

During a national emergency certain "contacts" are not legal anymore. For example, you don't have to pay the rent, you can just stop paying and they can not evict you. So no... the argument that "you signed a contract" does not hold.

Just like you signed a contract with credit card and now they are going to stop interest from accruing.

This is why we pay taxes, so during a time of need ... especially for those that have contributed their whole life... there are protections.

Exactly. Its absurd that the OP created an innocuous thread asking for what other parents were doing during a global pandemic for an expensive apartment that her child isn't using anymore. And all she gets is abuse by gross slumlords shaming her for looking for solutions.