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DD double booked Uni accommodation. Help and advice needed!

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chinup123 · 29/05/2025 15:29

Help and advice needed, feel like we are up shit creek without a paddle at this stage!

DD is just finishing her 1st year of Uni. They start looking at 2nd year uni accommodation pretty early and that stage she agreed to look at a shared house with the current flatmates of the Halls she is in. They were all getting on ok at the time other than usual disagreements around cleaning etc. They found a house, happy with it, deposits made, agreements signed all sorted.

But then things get nasty with one of the flatmates and DD is getting bullied by her. This gets worse and worse until DD in a lot of distress and wants to pull out of the house. She was that distressed and I had seen evidence of the bullying that I agreed this would not be best and she should pull out. We spoke to letting agents and they said there would be costs for new tenant and DD would need to find a new tenant. We didn't think that would be too difficult.

Time goes on and struggling to find a new tenant, DD also looking for alternative accommodation at the same time. She finds alternative accommodation in another Halls but these are getting taken up quite fast so we make the decision to secure that for her. I didn't want to wait until tenant was found for the house share and then there be no other accommodation for her. Remained optimistic a tenant would be found.

So she has now signed 2 tenancy agreements, being liable for 2 sets of rent and me as guarantor for both. But we still can't find a tenant, the last one which seemed really positive has just pulled out. And I don't know what to do!

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Pootles34 · 29/05/2025 15:31

Has she got a housing officer at Uni? Speak to them first.

Clearing might provide new tenant possibly?

Can you afford both sets if push comes to shove?

Samari · 29/05/2025 15:33

Oh I recall your other thread op.

you were going to try to get her out of the tenancy agreement?

Samari · 29/05/2025 15:35

I thought that it was tour DD and three other girls all wanting a nasty one out?

DismondShoes · 29/05/2025 15:37

My DS has a situation where one tenant suddenly left uni, he and the other two tenants managed to find a new tenant but it was only about two weeks before the academic year started. So hang in there and keep advertising the room your DC doesn’t want. Obviously the other tenants need to be happy with whoever the new tenant is.

chinup123 · 29/05/2025 15:41

I haven't posted about this before sorry.

I will see about a housing officer.

My thinking is the Halls contract will be easier to get filled than the shared house.

At this point now where we are desperate, DD is willing to revert back to the shared house if that is the only way. The bullying has calmed down and she would just come home as often as possible.

The Halls will presumably get taken up quite easily. 1st year students don't typically take up house shares.

We can't afford both. I could at a push for a few months but certainly not for the whole academic year.

The house share tenancy starts on 1st July too, the Halls tenancy starts in September

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Samari · 29/05/2025 15:47

What are the other girls thinking?

chinup123 · 29/05/2025 15:50

Other girls are indifferent. They are carrying on with the house share, its DD's responsibility to fill the room and pay the rent.

They will be ok with having her continue with the house share, the nasty one seemed largely oblivious to her behaviour or minimised it and they were surprised when DD wanted to pull out

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Samari · 29/05/2025 16:09

chinup123 · 29/05/2025 15:50

Other girls are indifferent. They are carrying on with the house share, its DD's responsibility to fill the room and pay the rent.

They will be ok with having her continue with the house share, the nasty one seemed largely oblivious to her behaviour or minimised it and they were surprised when DD wanted to pull out

so the other girls want to carry on living with the “nasty” one and ok for Op to leave?

either way…. Closer to the time, you’ll get someone desperate who will take over the tenancy very quickly

Pootles34 · 29/05/2025 16:17

Sometimes by the time clearing students come through, all the halls are taken and they're forced into house shares - that's what happened to me! I appreciate this will differ from uni to uni of course.

DismondShoes · 29/05/2025 16:30

Pootles34 · 29/05/2025 16:17

Sometimes by the time clearing students come through, all the halls are taken and they're forced into house shares - that's what happened to me! I appreciate this will differ from uni to uni of course.

That’s how my DS managed to rent the spare room after a ‘friend’ that suddenly left uni and left the others in the lurch.

LIZS · 29/05/2025 16:50

There will be social media forums either run by uni, SU or externally which advertise spare rooms and flatshares with vacancies. Also Spareroom and Openrent. Which uni is it?

Areech · 29/05/2025 18:10

Please tell your DD to stand up to the bullying. Don't just sit there and take it. Be nasty back etc.

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