Advice on student house

mrmoose

mrmoose

mrmoose

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Im in a pickle at the moment with a student house that I should have been moving into july 1st. Was going to move in with 6 others into a 7 bedrooms house but decided to drop out of uni and plan to move home (which I have). The problem is that I have an agreement with the landlord that I need to fill my room or I will need to keep paying monthly rent. As I left uni I left this in charge with these housemates and was assured around 3weeks ago that a housemate was garenteed to move in.

Come yesterday i got a phone call telling me this wasn't the case and that they were still looking for a prospective housemate to fill my room. This left me fuming as I have allready lost the 1st months rent that we each payed as a deposit and I would indeed lose out on another months rent unless they fill the room by June 26th.

As they use a garentor (which is my father) then I thought I was screwed untill just now when I rang the letting agency and they told me that it is me who hasn't returned this garentors contract (even though I remember handing it them, it must have got lost)

This left me with a dilema.

Do I just basically cut my loses (and first month deposit) and do a runner, not hand the garentors form in and leave it for the others to do?

Wait untill saturday when a prospective housemate is hopefully going to sign (not 100% sure yet). Then get my father to resign these forms (which he doesn't want to do as he's abit ******* off with it all)?

Get the forms sent up asap, get them signed, send them back and pay another months rent. be it a lessoned learnt?


Im edging for the second route. I've offered the housemate an incentive on £50 if they manage to close the deal on the prospective guy on saturday.
 
Prepare for a barrage of posts with people's experience of housemates like you who left them in the lurch.

Not good...
 
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mrmoose said:
As I left uni I left this in charge with these housemates and was assured around 3weeks ago that a housemate was garenteed to move in.
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LMAO!!!

Sorry but how stupid can you get? Your mess...why did you let your poor housemates sort it out? Couldn't be bothered?
 
Was your room, you signed a contract, your problem in finding a person to fill it.

Surely you can contact the university - they may have students who need accomodation and fit them right in.

Rich
 
Yep i had a housemate do this to me, he left didnt find anyone and we couldn't find anyone suitable, he stopped paying, and i think his guarentors got out of it, result in them or him (i forget which) recieving a CCJ.

Your housemates dont care, its not their problem, sounds like your lazy and its biting you in the butt now. Gutted.
 
We all began to look for housemates and had a number of people look around. I was assurred that a good friend of a housemate was moving in and was told they had signed it over etc etc and all was good so i assumed this would be final. I had to move away because of illness and haven't had much chance of going back as im working 2 jobs.

I have every intention of paying, even paying the extra months as an incentive

In the day that i've had notice of this I've found them 6 people to look at the house over the weekend from various notice boards. gumtree and the uni ones and i've just found out that a housemate who hasn't had much say in the preceeding has been refusing some people blankly either because they are gay or non-british(this is what has left me angry the most).

Lesson learnt about students, they're all lazy and never assume, and this is from Leeds Universities laziest ever student
 
AcidHell2 said:
if it's a joint contract it certainly is there problem, if he does pay, the rest of his house mates will have to foot the bill.
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Im not entirely sure thats true, (but im no legal buff) because like he said, he has to have a garentor and joint contracts don't require one. From experience if you leave your required to fill the spot, in a uni accomodation or continue paying. I suppose this varies from contract, and estate agents.

mrmoose said:
We all began to look for housemates and had a number of people look around. I was assurred that a good friend of a housemate was moving in and was told they had signed it over etc etc and all was good so i assumed this would be final. I had to move away because of illness and haven't had much chance of going back as im working 2 jobs.
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Phone the letting agency, see if they have a contract with his signature on it, if not then your still liable.
 
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ChroniC said:
Im not entirely sure thats true, (but im no legal buff) because like he said, he has to have a garentor and from experience if you leave your required to fill the spot, or continue paying. I suppose this varies from contract, and estate agents.
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This is the case.
 
ChroniC said:
Phone the letting agency, see if they have a contract with his signature on it, if not then your still liable.
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Ive been informed that this was actually a lie, the person was interested but never signed anything and the housemates have been through a series of interviews etc with prospective people and rejected any they dont like whilst keeping all this from me.
Im taking the weekend off work so I can goto leeds and sort this mess out.
 
mrmoose said:
Ive been informed that this was actually a lie, the person was interested but never signed anything and the housemates have been through a series of interviews etc with prospective people and rejected any they dont like whilst keeping all this from me.
Im taking the weekend off work so I can goto leeds and sort this mess out.
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Coming from the position of your housemates, i dont feel sorry for the fact they reject some people. I know that when i moved in i wanted to move in with my house mates, noty some weirdo i don't like, and thats your fault.
Are the people coming in other students?
 
erm they are aloud to reject people, they signed contracts to move in with YOU, how is it fair if now you decide some satan worshipping 35year old transexual vampire who wees all over things and puts poo in the fridge can take your place just because you decided you dont want to live there or pay for it anymore?
 
they have every right to reject people. Living with people you don't get on with is horrible. You should have sorted out someone before you left.
 
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