I live across the country and it wasn't possible to go see the apartment. Most medical students are forced to sign a lease without seeing the apartment since many of us are given 2-3 weeks notice of acceptance, sometimes less. "Tenant" my apologies.
My rent is actually $866; no I could not have afforded a round trip ticket and motel. My family is a low income family. Other properties within the area were significantly more at $1300-1500.
I would like some advice to see if I had a chance in small claims court. So my situation is, I recently moved into Boston. I found an apartment through craigslist; the apartment was listed by the previous tenet. The condition she had for "letting us" rent the property, was to buy all the...