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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought college rentals began in the fall, and kids sublease the final summer months (May June and July) to someone. Seems the roommates who were long planning to stay in the city got all the advantage, including cheaper rent this summer and an empty room not filled with a random sublessee. If daughter didn't sign until May, obviously nobody else was going to live in that place this summer, so why couldn't she just wait to sign until August? Seems daughter was peer pressured to sign before going home to alleviate burden of roommates divvying up 3 months of her rent. Daughter essentially subsidizes kids who were staying in the city this summer. That's how it seems.[/quote]

Off-campus rentals begin whenever the landlord has an empty unit they want to rent. There's no rule re: college students. Nothing prevented your daughter from trying to sublet her room. The idea that she couldn't have found someone in May is bizarre, especially if this is in a city. She simply didn't try.

She couldn't wait until August because if she did, presumably she wouldn't be living in this place with these friends. What possible incentive would the other 3 have to "hold" her spot for her instead of getting someone else to take the 4th spot?

If you really feel your college-aged daughter is able to be peer-pressured into signing legal documents with financial implication, you should use this summer to work with her on some life skills.[/quote]

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