My choice of taking the year out is not so much of a choice anymore, given that I might be liable for termination of studies and my only options for that would have been to either repeat the year I just did or to take the year out and redo the exam that I failed and going back to being a full-time student the year later. But no one could have predicted this - when I signed the contract, I didn't know I was going to take the year out and likewise the renting company couldn't have predicted it either. I understand their point of view on the room, I really do, it's just the whole wasting money on a room I'm not living in that really bothers me. Maybe it's just a case that this has never happened to them before, so there's nothing in the contract that addresses this particular situation.
If I could just pay a cancellation fee that was equal to the deposit (or even greater) without having to pay the whole rent, I would gladly do it. If I had the choice between getting the deposit back and paying full rent, or just paying them the deposit without having to pay full rent, I would pick the latter. It's not so much the deposit the problem, I was complaining that they'd had a week and a half to give it back and didn't. If I was told the deposit could not have been given back to me, I wouldn't mind. But they told me more than a week ago that they would give it back and they still haven't. That's what bothers me.
I think this whole thing is stressing me and bothering me even more than it would usually do because my parents have been blaming me pretty hard for the situation with the renting company (I had a fight with them about this a week or so ago and it was not nice). Plus the fact that the cost of it is quite high, etc. it's just putting so much pressure on me and generally putting me in a bad mood. I know you're looking out for me and saying this stuff for my sake and I appreciate it. :) I think what I'll do now is wait for the brother-in-law of my boyfriend's father, who is a lawyer, to reply to my email with hopefully some legal advice and if he says nothing can be done about the situation, I'll just give up. Although I can't guarantee my dad will give up, given that he's the one paying for it as I don't have a job yet, and that he's also very stubborn... but at this point we'll just have to wait and see.
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If I could just pay a cancellation fee that was equal to the deposit (or even greater) without having to pay the whole rent, I would gladly do it. If I had the choice between getting the deposit back and paying full rent, or just paying them the deposit without having to pay full rent, I would pick the latter. It's not so much the deposit the problem, I was complaining that they'd had a week and a half to give it back and didn't. If I was told the deposit could not have been given back to me, I wouldn't mind. But they told me more than a week ago that they would give it back and they still haven't. That's what bothers me.
I think this whole thing is stressing me and bothering me even more than it would usually do because my parents have been blaming me pretty hard for the situation with the renting company (I had a fight with them about this a week or so ago and it was not nice). Plus the fact that the cost of it is quite high, etc. it's just putting so much pressure on me and generally putting me in a bad mood. I know you're looking out for me and saying this stuff for my sake and I appreciate it. :) I think what I'll do now is wait for the brother-in-law of my boyfriend's father, who is a lawyer, to reply to my email with hopefully some legal advice and if he says nothing can be done about the situation, I'll just give up. Although I can't guarantee my dad will give up, given that he's the one paying for it as I don't have a job yet, and that he's also very stubborn... but at this point we'll just have to wait and see.