PLease delete this thread, I would like to submit it again because it is not written well...
I was kicked out of the apartments at my college last semester for being behind in rent. The lease I was on was a month-to-month lease that I had agreed to mistakingly, when trying to resolve the most prior lease I had because my co-tenant vacated our apartment. My co-tenant had decided, begun moving, and turned in her key to the management company within a month right two weeks before school ended. My roommate was incommunicato throughout this process, I didn't know when she was going to get her stuff out of the apartment.
The only information I had regarding when she was moving was I was given a release form and a form to cancel the lease within 30 days; my roommate was threatening to cancel the lease within thirty days if I didn't release her from the lease mid-month. It was already mid-month when I received the forms. The reason my roommate needed to move was we weren't getting along and that she had claimed I had attempted to physically assault her. My roommate had told the housing office these things, but no charges where pressed by anyone, and I don't remember the word assault being used. We also had an illegal subtenant which the college never found out about, but would have gotten us both kicked out.
The question I have is whether the rental management company was unethical is allowing me to sign a new lease when they knew that I still considered my former roommate liable for rent and cleaning charges. Could my contract and subsequent rental obligations be considered invalid and the contract be possibly signed in bad faith? I have also fallen behind in my payment plan to repay the college the money from the aforementioned summer. There are sections in the leases people sign to live in the apartments referring ad specifically claiming the housing office is supposed to provide an enhanced college experience, does those kind of "clauses" obligate the university in anyway?
Thank you if you read my last thread; I am the person who wrote the thread about being kicked out of college housing two days ago. I wanted to write a more clear post here.
At the beginning of last summer I signed a lease with my college campus housing office that turned out to be unaffordable. I agreed to a payment plan to pay back the monies owed which I have subsequently fallen behind on as well; I currently don't know the status of the debt (whether the debt has been sent to collections, etc.) I am not allowed to live in any campus housing as a result of owing money to our college apartments and would like to know whether a contract was negotiated in bad faith or the college owes me some other kind of compensation that might return me to a better living situation. I know I may gotten myself into an irreversible situation, so please forgive me if my question seems beside the point. Maybe my posting this question will help someone else in a similar situation, before they get to the point I am at.
I signed the lease for which I owe money over, after a month long ordeal of my co-tenant moving out, that included a conduct process and the word lawsuit being dropped more than once. My co-tenant and I were getting in arguments, and I called the police on my co-tenant's significant other (who was a staff member at the college) for saying that the significant other and I could solve our issues with a fistfight. The co-tenant decided to move out and signed some forms with our school housing office to the extent that our lease within would have been cancelled in 30 days if I didn't say the roommate could move out at the middle of the month. The roommate/co-tenant told the college I was verbally abusive as to reason to move out, and also implied that I had attempted to physically assault co-tenant (no charges where pressed, but the incident was mentioned in my conduct hearing.) My co-tenant went incommunicato and I didn't talk to the
co-tenant because I was advised by the housing office not to; my co-tenant wouldn't agree to my requests to meet to resolve our lease even with another staff member present. The co-tenant left possessions in the house until the night before the never cleaned despite living in the house for 7 months for my one month and would also show up to the apartment unescorted, and unannounced when they didn't know I was there despite the supposed threat. This situation was supposed to be finished two weeks before the end of the school year; I am on financial aid and couldn't afford to find a place to new place to live, and didn't think I should have to since it was finals time. I told the school in writing that I thought the roommate was acting unfairly and I didn't want to release my roommate because I thought the roommate was violating our lease. Eventually the housing office got me to sign a new lease. I knew that I didn't want to release my roommate because I would be signing my rights away, and I didn't know signing a new lease was doing the same thing.
During the time this all transpired my co-tenant and I had an illegal subtenant, and the college has a big problem with illegal sub-tenants (students even post ads for people offering illegal rooms on the online housing board.) My co-tenant and would have gotten kicked out of housing if the college found out. We split the rent between the three of us basically equally, however when my co-tenant went to pay the rent (supposedly on behalf of the co-tenant and the subtenant,) $150 was missing, so my roommate ripped me off.
There are other details in the situation, and I know some of the situation is my fault, but the college claims that living on campus is supposed to enhance our college experience (even in the leases students sign to live on campus it says that.) Most of the students I know, even some staff members, have illegal subtenants (some of which aren't students.) The college doesn't have an ombudsman and there is no tenants association. Do I have cause to complain further with the school and would I have some need to contact a lawyer? The head of the housing office told me told me when I complained about the situation to him that I signed the lease of my own free will, which I find rude since they won't respond to emails or phone calls.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
I was kicked out of the apartments at my college last semester for being behind in rent. The lease I was on was a month-to-month lease that I had agreed to mistakingly, when trying to resolve the most prior lease I had because my co-tenant vacated our apartment. My co-tenant had decided, begun moving, and turned in her key to the management company within a month right two weeks before school ended. My roommate was incommunicato throughout this process, I didn't know when she was going to get her stuff out of the apartment.
The only information I had regarding when she was moving was I was given a release form and a form to cancel the lease within 30 days; my roommate was threatening to cancel the lease within thirty days if I didn't release her from the lease mid-month. It was already mid-month when I received the forms. The reason my roommate needed to move was we weren't getting along and that she had claimed I had attempted to physically assault her. My roommate had told the housing office these things, but no charges where pressed by anyone, and I don't remember the word assault being used. We also had an illegal subtenant which the college never found out about, but would have gotten us both kicked out.
The question I have is whether the rental management company was unethical is allowing me to sign a new lease when they knew that I still considered my former roommate liable for rent and cleaning charges. Could my contract and subsequent rental obligations be considered invalid and the contract be possibly signed in bad faith? I have also fallen behind in my payment plan to repay the college the money from the aforementioned summer. There are sections in the leases people sign to live in the apartments referring ad specifically claiming the housing office is supposed to provide an enhanced college experience, does those kind of "clauses" obligate the university in anyway?
Thank you if you read my last thread; I am the person who wrote the thread about being kicked out of college housing two days ago. I wanted to write a more clear post here.
At the beginning of last summer I signed a lease with my college campus housing office that turned out to be unaffordable. I agreed to a payment plan to pay back the monies owed which I have subsequently fallen behind on as well; I currently don't know the status of the debt (whether the debt has been sent to collections, etc.) I am not allowed to live in any campus housing as a result of owing money to our college apartments and would like to know whether a contract was negotiated in bad faith or the college owes me some other kind of compensation that might return me to a better living situation. I know I may gotten myself into an irreversible situation, so please forgive me if my question seems beside the point. Maybe my posting this question will help someone else in a similar situation, before they get to the point I am at.
I signed the lease for which I owe money over, after a month long ordeal of my co-tenant moving out, that included a conduct process and the word lawsuit being dropped more than once. My co-tenant and I were getting in arguments, and I called the police on my co-tenant's significant other (who was a staff member at the college) for saying that the significant other and I could solve our issues with a fistfight. The co-tenant decided to move out and signed some forms with our school housing office to the extent that our lease within would have been cancelled in 30 days if I didn't say the roommate could move out at the middle of the month. The roommate/co-tenant told the college I was verbally abusive as to reason to move out, and also implied that I had attempted to physically assault co-tenant (no charges where pressed, but the incident was mentioned in my conduct hearing.) My co-tenant went incommunicato and I didn't talk to the
co-tenant because I was advised by the housing office not to; my co-tenant wouldn't agree to my requests to meet to resolve our lease even with another staff member present. The co-tenant left possessions in the house until the night before the never cleaned despite living in the house for 7 months for my one month and would also show up to the apartment unescorted, and unannounced when they didn't know I was there despite the supposed threat. This situation was supposed to be finished two weeks before the end of the school year; I am on financial aid and couldn't afford to find a place to new place to live, and didn't think I should have to since it was finals time. I told the school in writing that I thought the roommate was acting unfairly and I didn't want to release my roommate because I thought the roommate was violating our lease. Eventually the housing office got me to sign a new lease. I knew that I didn't want to release my roommate because I would be signing my rights away, and I didn't know signing a new lease was doing the same thing.
During the time this all transpired my co-tenant and I had an illegal subtenant, and the college has a big problem with illegal sub-tenants (students even post ads for people offering illegal rooms on the online housing board.) My co-tenant and would have gotten kicked out of housing if the college found out. We split the rent between the three of us basically equally, however when my co-tenant went to pay the rent (supposedly on behalf of the co-tenant and the subtenant,) $150 was missing, so my roommate ripped me off.
There are other details in the situation, and I know some of the situation is my fault, but the college claims that living on campus is supposed to enhance our college experience (even in the leases students sign to live on campus it says that.) Most of the students I know, even some staff members, have illegal subtenants (some of which aren't students.) The college doesn't have an ombudsman and there is no tenants association. Do I have cause to complain further with the school and would I have some need to contact a lawyer? The head of the housing office told me told me when I complained about the situation to him that I signed the lease of my own free will, which I find rude since they won't respond to emails or phone calls.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
