Withdrawing from uni and need to get out of tenancy

silvercar

I wish universities would start using their influence in this area. Looking for a property to rent and share for the following academic year should be actively discouraged until the January, that gives plenty of time for students to form friendship groups and landlords to let their property. Instead there is a frantic rush for people to sort out the following years groupings within days of arriving at university. Consequently people end up sharing with those that might not be as supportive as the friends they make in the first few weeks, by which time it is too late.

My kids made this mistake. Seeing an urgency to sort things out which led to not ideal groupings due to the pressure to sort the people and the house for the following year.  They only accepted they were wrong when they decided to do extend their stay in the university by doing a masters and found that in June it was perfectly possible to find decent rentals and people to share with. Universities could help by refusing to give accredited landlord status to those landlords or estate agents that start the process before an agreed date.

Sapindus

HampshireH said:

Your son needs to do more.

Get his room advertised in the student union. Put it on the notice board. Use Facebook or Snapchat or whatever they are using to advertise it to people who will see it as a student there. Get his friends sharing it to their friends etc

Sadly if he can't then it will be a big life lesson and an expensive mistake. But there are always kids needing rooms

I was scoffed at when I suggested there must be a noticeboard somewhere.  We have however phoned the uni who pointed us to a facebook group so he's posted on there, and the SpareRoom ad has been approved now.  He didn't make any friends so that's a non-starter.