cancelling a contract!!

whyaminotsavingany?

I am recently renting out a house at uni. However i do not get on with any of the other tenents and have been offered a place in halls. i have told the landlady and he she believes as i have signed a contract i must either stay or pay for the rest of contract. Which is fair enough but the uni housing say that if she is willing to we can both get out of this by mutual agreement. However she does not want to?and i am not going to be paying for 2 places? and she is also threating to take court action blah blah etc.

any advice

xnikkix

Check your lease. The standard notice period is one month. However, if you've igned to say you'll pay for the whole contract then I'd imagine that would stand.

wirm

Have you tried finding someone else to rent the room.

Maybe if you got someone and told her that you have someone who is willing to rent the room, maybe she would be fine with that.

As you have signed a contract theres no real way of getting out of it unless the landlord lets you...

Karnam

my landlady did the same thing. but i came to her with a new tenant for my reoom and she agreed to change the contract over to the new tenant

muddled_midget

check the wording of your contract, most of them use a standard one where they just cross bits out as appropriate, it usually has something in there about transferring the contract to someone else, but they can charge you for this (in my contracts this amount has always been £50 or £100).

Crispy_Ambulance

As the other replies have said - if you have signed a fixed term contract and most student contracts usually are - you are obliged to pay your rent for the remainder of the contract. If you don't then your Landlady can sue you in the county court for the money and believe me, they will. Also, if you have a joint contract, then the landlady can claim your rent off one or all of the other tenants - in which case, they can sue you in the county court.

The best thing would be to find a replacement tenant. If you talk to your uni accommodation office, they might have students, especially international students here for one semester, who will be looking for accommodation.

exil

The way it seems to me is that the other tenants are forcing you out, so it's their problem. Can you just grit your teeth and hang on to the end of the contract?