DS2 is due to return for his second year and had previously found accommodation prior to lockdown with 6 other students.
The contract is due to run from 1st July but without knowing any of the other's situations, DH & I are unhappy to act as guarantors on a joint and several liability basis, given the current and on-going situation.
The annual rent for all of them could come to £40k (not to mention any damage they could cause) and no idea how many of them will be able to return to their courses. With this number in the house we feel that there is too much risk of something going wrong.
Trying to get information out of him is like the proverbial blood and stone; he thinks we're being unreasonable, we can't seem to make him understand just how much we are risking financially. The landlord could easily just target us for any losses without knowing the backgrounds of his prospective housemates.
Are we being unreasonable in trying to see if they can get individual contracts?
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bettytaghetti · 05/06/2020 19:46
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