Any advice?

I started a degree last year but later decided to change my course and live in halls again as a 1st year, after having signed a joint tenancy agreement for a house for 12 months (1/09 to 31/07).

I have a room reserved in halls and I am being asked to pay my non refundable deposit tomorrow. My landlord says he thinks he has let my room to someone else but the new tenant hasn't paid the deposit or signed the contract yet.

Bearing in mind this is at Plymouth and the demand for private housing is huge this year as the uni miscalculated the number of halls places available to clearing students and is now sending a lot of them to private accommodation, meaning if this guy doesn't end up taking my room I am 98% sure someone else will before term starts.

What should I do? Pay the deposit for halls and take the small risk or just move back into the house and waste all the efforts me and the land lord have put into advertising my room and live with second years who I barely know?

Thanks!

250 quid, obviously all refundable at the end of the year providing nothing gets trashed

Yeah but I am trying to get out of the house contract, otherwise I am paying 2 rents lol not ideal. I was mainly asking just whether to pay the halls deposit (considering the small risk no one takes my room at the house) or just give up trying to go to halls and stick with the house

Yeah but I am trying to get out of the house contract, otherwise I am paying 2 rents lol not ideal. I was mainly asking just whether to pay the halls deposit (considering the small risk no one takes my room at the house) or just give up trying to go to halls and stick with the house

You signed the contract you have to pay the deposit. I speak as a landlord.


That is why it is called a non-refundable deposit

Did you read my post? I am talking about the deposit for halls. I am trying to give up my room in the house and the landlord is 95% sure he has found someone he just needs to get a signature and deposit off them. My question is whether to go ahead and pay the halls deposit and live there or not.

Like I said - I would stick with the house because you know you have a room there. Like you said Plymouth miscounted on how much accommodation they had so there is no guarantee of a space for you in halls

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I was replying to the other poster. Sorry I know it was a long OP but I did also say that I have a room reserved in halls. I know where I will be living and have even made contact with my flatmates

I'm talking about the deposit for halls. I am trying to give up my room in the house and the landlord is 95% sure he has found someone he just needs to get a signature and deposit off them. My question is whether to go ahead and pay the halls deposit and live there or not.

The halls and the landlord are running a business - we cannot afford to hang around whilst you make up your mind.

I would stick with the house - if all you are concerned about is being stuck with a load of second years you are obviously not working hard enough for your degree.

But yet you can afford the time to come on here, misread and misjudge what I said, speak on behalf of two companies who you do not work for and tell me I am not hard working because I would prefer to live in halls?

I have evidently touched a raw nerve eh!

I speak as a landlord - as I said.

As well as being a landlord - I have two properties that I manage and I work - in fact just off to work now.

And what's more I am a good landlord - I set the rent according to how much people can afford - often giving students free weeks if they are a bit short and I don't even make some of them pay deposits ( not all of them - I am not stupid)