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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]

OP - you are unfairly maligning your daughter's friends and roommates, not to mention the landlord. And I think it is because you do not understand how a lease works.

Leases are not dictated based on the tenants' wishes. They are dictated when the previous lease is over. In this case, your daughter and her friends found a place with a lease starting in June. There is a strong chance that your daughter could have chosen a different place with a lease beginning in August, but she made a decision to sign a lease with this property beginning in June. And in doing so she put herself on the hook for the rent. Landlords often will not allow tenants to be added in the middle of a lease unless there is an extreme reason. Trust me, I am a landlord for a number of properties in the DC area and I expect the tenants to be on top of their situation. There needs to be a good reason for not having someone sign at the beginning of the lease. It's also not the landlord or her roommates'  job to find a sublet for your daughter. The lease is for the property and for a certain number of people. On the flip side, one could argue that your daughter prevented the other girls from having someone else move in because she signed the lease and took the space. As far as anyone knows your daughter may have told her roommates that no one can live in her room while she is gone. You also should look up the concept of "jointly and severally" which is a standard clause in a lease that means that once your daughter signed the lease she is responsible for the full terms of the lease, including the payment of rent. If she didn't pay her portion she puts the burden on the other girls to pay. The other girls are not getting "cheaper rent". They are simply paying what they signed up for when they ALL (including your daughter) signed the lease.

In addition, your daughter could have and [u]should[/u] have found a sublet. However, your daughter made the decision to waste her money rather than find a person to pay the rent for the summer months she was not there. Or she could have chosen to stay there and work/take classes just as her roommates are doing. I find it very curious that you are blaming everyone else for supposedly cheating your daughter rather than being annoyed that she did not do her due diligence to find someone to sublet. Frankly, this is all on your daughter. And with a mother who thinks everyone else has "done her wrong" I suspect that she never even bothered to try and find someone. She knew you would blame everyone else since she clearly never does anything wrong....[/quote]

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