Roommate/housing woes
I feel terrible because I think all I ever do is come here for advice, but here I am again...
Last fall I moved into a house with my current roommate (and best friend). It's a nice house and I was happy to be saving some money. Our landlord's son will be moving into the house next year, so we have to find a new place to live.
I was wanting to find a place on my own, but my roommate was upset because she couldn't really afford to live alone. So we started looking for places that we could share, but could reasonable separate so that my dog doesn't have to be around her cat. Finally, we found a place. We signed a lease and all was well.
...Until it wasn't. My friend came to me and said she had received a job offer in South Dakota and was going to take it. This was the day AFTER she signed the lease, and she definitely knew about it before but for some reason just neglected to tell me. So now we need to get out of our lease. There's a break lease fee but it's crazy high (around $3000) and requires 45 days notice, which isn't really useful since we've only had the lease signed for a few days (and they've been advertising the house that whole time too).
My dad was trying to get me to rent another property through the same company, with the idea that it would forgive my half of the break-lease fee and then my friend would be on the hook for her half (she absolutely doesn't have the money). But their other properties don't work for me at all. So we've been talking with the agency about maybe paying just a percentage of the fee and being done with it. We'll see where that goes.
In the meantime, I'm stuck looking for a new place to live. I'm pretty upset because I gave up on some places that I liked since we were planning on living together. Right now I have two: neither is perfect, but it seems like those are really my only options. One is considerably more expensive, and one is cheaper and more rundown, and I have the feeling that my parents are going to be incredibly disappointed in me if I choose the more run down one. I feel very pressured to make a different choice - they're wanting me to just go ahead and rent an apartment even though it doesn't work for my pet situation. I have about 10 days to decide, and not having a place to go leaves me NO motivation to pack my current stuff.
I really just needed to vent I think, so thanks.
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