Off-campus housing and leases

Dad_of_3
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:51:07 +0000

I thank you all for the different pieces of advice. To summarize, we can try negotiating our two main hangups - us being responsible for her roommates’ actions, and she being held responsible for them - with these approaches:

I can have DD1 check if we can deposit her share of the annual rent in her bank account and if this is sufficient proof that she has the means to pay her rent and leave both us and the roommates out.

Pay a few months’ worth of her share of her rent in advance in exchange for keeping her separate from her roommates and us off the lease.

Have her check if there are other landlords who don’t hold us or her - what’s the term one of you used - “jointly, collectively, severally responsible …”

ebeeee, by NU, I meant Northwestern in Evanston



but unless a parent shows them how to read a contract and how to negotiate (give and take) there is no way they could figure it out.


Some of us parents benefit by knowing what others have negotiated.