Off-campus housing and leases

originaloog
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:13:16 +0000

We to did not have to co-sign the lease and the students signing the lease were responsible for the monthly rent. If anyone dropped out the others still had to come p with the monthly rent. Fortunately they were in a 3 story rowhouse and had 11 in on the lease.

Looking at it from a landlords viewpoint, the rent for each rental unit is necessary to cover mortgage, tax, maintenance costs etc. A student dropout is none of their business.

The real key for students is to try and get reliable friends to share off campus housing arrangements. In the three years our son was off-campus they only had one deadbeat, and he was not a student.