Cancelling a joint tenancy before moving in

JoeS

Long time lurker, first time poster.

My daughter is currently at university in campus accomadation but recently she's agreed and signed a joint tenancy to move into a private shared house. In the meantime the relationship with the people she'd agreed to move in with has broken down, mainly due to their behaviour in the current student accomadation, having parties daily etc.

She isn't due to move into the new place for another three weeks and is now looking at moving back home as she needs to concentrate on her studies. My question is, where does she stand in regard to cancelling her part of the joint tenancy before actually moving into the property?

Thanks in advance.

Icey77

Hmmm, once a tenacy agreement is signed it's a contract. I would suggest you (or your daughter) calls the letting agent ASAP to see what, if anything can be arranged to minimise the costs involved of getting out of this contract.

Good luck

Richard_Webster

Find someone else to take her place otherwise she'll have to pay the rent.

LillyJ

This happened to me when I was at uni. One of the blokes I was sharing with had to pull out as he had to move back home to live with his parents.
He was liable for the rent until we found someone to take his place. We found someone (another friend) pretty quick so it was fine for all concerned, but it may be worth putting an advert on gumtree for someone to take the room. Maybe offer them an incentive such as no you pay the deposit to get someone quick and stop you losing any rent money.

PS she has made a good decision, it is a nightmare living with people who don't respect the others they live with at uni. I would never live with some my closest friends as I know we couldn't cope with each other's habits! The people I got on best with when sharing were actually people who I liked but weren't in my closest group of friends.

Notlob

What is the agreement date?

Do not be confused with the start date!