we rented a flat for my daughter in Scotland so she could be close to Uni last June. She shared with a flatmate and initially the contract was for 8 months then month on month and I was her guarantor. She now has a new flatmate and when I was on holiday last week she was asked to sign a new lease for the new joint tenant but this was for 6 months. the agents never informed me I would be guarantor now for a 6 month lease, Then, 5 days after signing, my daughter was accepted quite unexpectedly for another University 60 miles from the flat. She didn’t expect to get in but did. In addition, her new flatmate now tells us she can’t afford the rent anyway! so there are 2 issues. My daughter shouldn’t have signed the lease without speaking to me but was under pressure from the agent in order to get the new flatmate on the lease, they insisted she sign a new contract. But surely the agent should have told me in writing that the terms of the lease were changing from month on month to 6 months as guarantor? AND as it transpires, my daughter will be going to Uni miles away and her flatmate can’t afford half the rent anyway. The agent says tough. I have asked that they speak to the landlord and asked that we be released not only because the girls really didn’t know what they were signing, but also because soon after circumstances have changed unexpectedly for my daughter and her flatmate AND they have put me down as guarantor on a new 6 month contract when I had honestly believed that the new flatmate was being added to the existing lease, I have had contact with the office over the last couple of months and nothing was said about a new 6 month contract. Help? we need out of the contract for all reasons, what do we do? I can’t afford to pay 6 months rent for 2 properties
I have told them I will pay my daughters portion until the end September but her flatmate can’t or won’t pay. But shouldn’t they have told me as I have a financial interest, that the lease eas changing from month on month to a 6 month lease. Surely the gurantor has a right to say if they are happy with commiting themselves?
I didn’t sign anything. I did not agree to be guarantor other than month to month and my daughter was not told she could not get out of the lease