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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She’s also going abroad in January. Now her cash for the fall from summer job is going to be nearly $0 instead of $3000+. This was the dumbest decision I’ve ever seen her make. I think she was pressured and guilt tripped by self-serving friends who urgently needed one last person to join and she really didn’t get what she was doing. She’s never signed a lease before, she’s a naive teen. She had no business entering a lease that began in June. And she shouldn’t get into a lease when she’s going abroad. She could have subbed from someone this fall for one semester. Now she’s paying for 3-4. Dumb![/quote]

[b]I don’t know why you keep shifting the blame to her friends. (Presumably they, too, are naive teens.) If you’re so concerned, why didn’t you talk to her about her housing plans before?[/b] [/quote]

I had significant financial aid to college, as did most of my friends, so blithely deciding to live off campus and pay 6-7 months for a place I wouldn’t live in was never an option.  I HAD to earn $3000 for the summer to go towards my tuition in order to return to school and unless off campus was cheaper than a dorm, as much as it may mean not rooming with friends, I had to do what I could afford.

While you blame the friends, I question how your daughter has all that money she can waste. Unless the off campus is so much of a deal that 12 months and not being there for several of those months and not subletting  is still cheaper than on campus with meal plan, your dd needs some basic budgeting/money management.  What’s that saying when you point fingers at someone you have three fingers pointing back at you.[/quote]

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