Cancel Tenancy Agreement? (Student Accommodation)

lawrenceweber

Hi, I live in student accomodation and I'm a first year student.

My second payment is due in January and I'm wondering what legal grounds I have for refusing to stay here and either moving back home or into a different accommodation.

The laundry service is constantly down. The elevators are always broken. And the security door to our building has been broken since we moved in. Despite continuously telling them this we always get told it's being worked on.

Also the fact I don't get on with a couple of my housemates has tipped me over the edge. They're actually disgusting to live with, constantly leaving plates out in the kitchen and have never took a single bin out. I've told them to sort it out several times, and also told the staff down stairs who have took no action what so ever.

Any help is greatly appreciated

G_M

If this is student accomodation you should go and discuss this with either the university accomodation office and/or the students union.

marksoton

lawrenceweber wrote: »

Hi, I live in student accomodation and I'm a first year student.

My second payment is due in January and I'm wondering what legal grounds I have for refusing to stay here and either moving back home or into a different accommodation.

The laundry service is constantly down. The elevators are always broken. And the security door to our building has been broken since we moved in. Despite continuously telling them this we always get told it's being worked on.

Also the fact I don't get on with a couple of my housemates has tipped me over the edge. They're actually disgusting to live with, constantly leaving plates out in the kitchen and have never took a single bin out. I've told them to sort it out several times, and also told the staff down stairs who have took no action what so ever.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Oxford Uni ain't what it used to be....

Shakin_Steve

What does your agreement say?

mrginge

marksoton wrote: »

Oxford Uni ain't what it used to be....

Basingstoke poly more like

booksurr

marksoton wrote: »

Oxford Uni ain't what it used to be....

actually what he describes resonates quite well with me reflecting back to my memories of 1982 and being a first year in the Tackley's Inn staircase, complete with tramps in the bathroom and scouts who revolted (quite rightly) at having to clean their mess up on top of that created by certain first years who had no experience to date of life without servants.

Guest101

lawrenceweber wrote: »

Hi, I live in student accomodation and I'm a first year student.

My second payment is due in January and I'm wondering what legal grounds I have for refusing to stay here and either moving back home or into a different accommodation.

The laundry service is constantly down. The elevators are always broken. And the security door to our building has been broken since we moved in. Despite continuously telling them this we always get told it's being worked on.

Also the fact I don't get on with a couple of my housemates has tipped me over the edge. They're actually disgusting to live with, constantly leaving plates out in the kitchen and have never took a single bin out. I've told them to sort it out several times, and also told the staff down stairs who have took no action what so ever.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Need to know if uni accommodation or private landlord in a house

agrinnall

It's Halls of residence, the OP has a duplicate thread going on the Student board.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5566580

csgohan4

agrinnall wrote: »

It's Halls of residence, the OP has a duplicate thread going on the Student board.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5566580

I remember those days, weeks where ppl don't throw the rubbish out with flies everywhere, nice

abby1234519

When I was in halls, we had separate flats in the tower. One day I awoke to the noise of someone hitting our door, as I went into the hallway it flew open and a guy dressed in a huge pair of white Y fronts fell in. He picked himself up and ran off. The lock was broken and it took the landlords a week to refit it.

Person_one

lawrenceweber wrote: »

Hi, I live in student accomodation and I'm a first year student.

My second payment is due in January and I'm wondering what legal grounds I have for refusing to stay here and either moving back home or into a different accommodation.

The laundry service is constantly down. The elevators are always broken. And the security door to our building has been broken since we moved in. Despite continuously telling them this we always get told it's being worked on.

Also the fact I don't get on with a couple of my housemates has tipped me over the edge. They're actually disgusting to live with, constantly leaving plates out in the kitchen and have never took a single bin out. I've told them to sort it out several times, and also told the staff down stairs who have took no action what so ever.

Any help is greatly appreciated

Sounds fairly standard for student halls, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and if you go into private rented in your second year then this will seem like a paradise in retrospect.

Try to relax, don't let the mess bother you too much, keep your own room as you like it and make more effort to get on with your housemates and have fun rather than nagging them about leaving their plates out, you're not their mum!