Advice on college apartments?

curiouser
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:50:55 +0000

One other thing I would recommend is to ask for individual leases by each student who will occupy the apartment, if they’ll do it.

This was the way it was done for S along with his 3 roommates. It REALLY helps protect your student in the event someone (or more than just one person) moves out, reneges on the rent, etc. This happened to my D, TWICE, in another state where there was only a blanket lease for the apartment for all 3 occupants.

It’s a huge burden if the remaining roommates end up having to take care of someone who bails on them. First time it happened, it was for mental health reasons, second time the girl just wanted to live with a boyfriend. They had a very difficult time replacing the roommate in the middle of the semester amd were on the hook for rent, utilities etc until they did.