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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are paying over $1000 rent for DS's unoccupied room in a 4-bedroom apartment in College Park. Why would we expect not to have to pay out the remainder of our lease? We signed a contract and we will fulfill our legal obligation. [/quote]
Good, this thread is not for you.[/quote]

Why isn't it? I'm in the same situation as the OP, but I'm not looking for an excuse to not pay! [/quote]
This thread is for people that are looking for remedies, not people that are happy to pay. [/quote]

Remedies is the wrong word.  A predicate for a remedy is some sort of wrongdoing, and there's none of that here.  You're looking for relief.  [/quote]
The wrongdoing is the government shutting off schools[/quote]

That has nothing to do with OP's obligation to pay the lease.  [/quote]

Yes it does. People lease places near a college with the assumption college will provide a service. They are not providing the service and the apartment is useless and more dangerous in many situations.[/quote]

This may be a good argument if you are in a college residence.  But OP's kid is not.  He entered into a lease with a private landlord, who is providing exactly the service he contracted to provide - a place to live.  And the apartment is not useless - it can be used as a place to live.  It's exactly the same as any other residential lease.  And while evictions have been put on hold, there is absolutely nothing that changes the underlying obligations of the lease.  [/quote]

It doesn't matter. He entered a contract with a college to have on site classes and to do that he had to rent an apartment. Since the college did not deliver, they caused this family to take on unneeded expenses. They are receiving millions of dollars from the govt to make things right and they should make things right.

I don't think this is up to the leasing agent to make right, it's up to the colleges. [/quote]

DP.

"He entered into a contract with a college to have on site classes...": OK. I doubt that "contract" actually stipulated "on site" in writing but let's figure that was everyone's assumption including the college's. Fair enough.

"...and to do that he had to rent an apartment." No, he did not "have" to rent an apartment. For all a college knows, if a student is not in campus housing, that student could be living in an apartment or at home with parents or with other relatives or a spouse or sleeping in his car (a situation in which some indigent students actually find themselves in some expensive parts of the country even in non-virus times, sadly). The college provides classes. Unless you are paying room fees TO the college, it does not owe you housing, or payment for housing you choose to rent off campus. What part of "OFF campus"escapes you?

Trying to make this something for which the college should pay is so massively self-centered and legally wrong it's boggling. 
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+1.  How has this gone on 4 pages? OP is out of luck.  [/quote]

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