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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]

Rentals start when the landlord starts the lease.  These other girls were going to find a place starting over the summer, so your daughter’s options were to sign the lease and pay for the months she wasn’t there, sign the lease and find a sub-tenant for the summer, or pass on living with these girls and find her own housing for the fall.  She chose the first option, which was entirely her own decision.

Further, if she’s paying it out of her own money, why is this your issue?[/quote]

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