Comments on: Out of the Dorms, and Into Life (A Guide to Finding the Best Place to Live in College) http://blog.ratemystudentrental.com/2008/02/23/out-of-the-dorms-and-into-life-a-guide-to-finding-the-best-place-to-live-in-college/ On Student Housing, College, and Life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:55:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Freshmen Prepare to Leave the Dorms. | RateMyStudentRental Blog http://blog.ratemystudentrental.com/2008/02/23/out-of-the-dorms-and-into-life-a-guide-to-finding-the-best-place-to-live-in-college/#comment-260 Freshmen Prepare to Leave the Dorms. | RateMyStudentRental Blog Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:57:41 +0000 http://rmsrblog.alfajango.com/?p=78#comment-260 [...] can get more details from these blog posts too! Moving Off-Campus & Safety [...] [...] can get more details from these blog posts too! Moving Off-Campus & Safety [...]

]]> By: alpha754293 http://blog.ratemystudentrental.com/2008/02/23/out-of-the-dorms-and-into-life-a-guide-to-finding-the-best-place-to-live-in-college/#comment-9 alpha754293 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:59:42 +0000 http://rmsrblog.alfajango.com/?p=78#comment-9 I think that the leasing agreement contract law should actually probably be the most important since that is also quite possibly the binding legal agreement that has the most capacity to screw you over. Therefore, even if your anxious landlord is watching over your shoulder and tapping the fingers on the table trying to sucker you into signing the lease agreement in a hurry -- DON'T fall for that trap. If anything, you should ask if you can have a few days to read it over and do so very carefully. Read it over with a friend, your family, your parents, your pet if you have to! If there's anything you don't understand, it is the responsibility of the landlord to clarify. If the landlord feels to be witholding information from you on purpose, or is only willing to give you vague responses that doesn't (satisfactorily) answer your question -- chances are, you're going to get screwed over -- so don't fall for that. Just be very very cautious and have a friend tag along so you can bounce ideas off of. I think that the leasing agreement contract law should actually probably be the most important since that is also quite possibly the binding legal agreement that has the most capacity to screw you over.

Therefore, even if your anxious landlord is watching over your shoulder and tapping the fingers on the table trying to sucker you into signing the lease agreement in a hurry — DON’T fall for that trap.

If anything, you should ask if you can have a few days to read it over and do so very carefully. Read it over with a friend, your family, your parents, your pet if you have to! If there’s anything you don’t understand, it is the responsibility of the landlord to clarify.

If the landlord feels to be witholding information from you on purpose, or is only willing to give you vague responses that doesn’t (satisfactorily) answer your question — chances are, you’re going to get screwed over — so don’t fall for that.

Just be very very cautious and have a friend tag along so you can bounce ideas off of.

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