Searching for a student house, I found a room in
a house five minutes away from the University. Having E-mailed the girl, who advertised it, I found out that her parents had
bought the house for her to live in. I met her and we got on fine, so I
decided that I'd take the room. The day we were signing the contract, her
parents were explaining there that they were nice
easy-going people. I was pleased with what I saw and heard.
Having read the contract, I realised that it ran till June. I didn't
need the room till that late, so I explained that I'd like to move out
in April. I was told this wasn't a problem, and it didn't matter what
the contract said. So I happily signed, thinking I'd been so
lucky to have found a place with such great people.
It turned out
it wasn't so great. The girl, whose parents bought the house, was very
unfriendly, leaving notes around the house and complaining about every little thing.
Having had enough of that, I decided to move out early, but when the
landlord heard this news, he wasn't sympathetic. The answer was, "I
understand your situation, but you can't move out earlier." Confused, I said that he himself told me it would be fine to leave
before, but he seemed to have forgotten about our conversation.
In
the end it was my word against the landlord's. Having paid the
rest of my rent, which was £700, I moved out totally, disgusted. The moral is: check your contracts, get
everything written down, don't be impressed by
promises and smiles.