Off-campus housing and leases

HImom
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:55:36 +0000

For S, we never signed any leases. He has a credit card & sufficient funds in the bank to pay his share of the entire year. For D, we had to sign for her share of the lease this year. We could have squacked, but she really didn’t want to make any waves. This may be her last year in student-related housing anyway. This & last year she was with university housing & none of this came up.

I don’t think it’s unusual for parents to have to guarantee at least their student’s portion of the lease, but there is considerable variation about whether anyone has to co-sign for the ENTIRE lease.

Our D will be living with one of her best friends & two others. We don’t think there will be any issues as they are all VERY responsible and will be juniors/seniors next year.