I got lucky personally, I only had 24 hour's notice to get my butt out of the dorms (somehow managed to find an apartment 2 blocks away from my dorm to get moved into as well) and got refunded a...
I got lucky personally, I only had 24 hour's notice to get my butt out of the dorms (somehow managed to find an apartment 2 blocks away from my dorm to get moved into as well) and got refunded a prorated amount of my reslife and meal plan costs. Besides the crazy short amount of time to get our affairs sorted out, a perfectly sane, reasonable outcome.
But I've heard some horror stories from other college students. 2 hours away from here there's a community college, lot of people I know are going there and while they were booted out of the dorms, they weren't allowed to check out. For some of them, a lot of their stuff remains stuck in dorms they no longer have access to, and the college is keeping all housing fees for themselves, every single student is just out of luck.
I just don't understand how that even came to happen and how the immediate strong backlash wasn't enough for every single college to back down from dumb policies like that. Are they not worried about their entire student population transferring somewhere else after being screwed over like that? I sure wouldn't want to be sticking around.
How is 24 hours of notice even legal? Doesn’t a college need to follow the same eviction rules as any other landlord? I am not against colleges closing, but students should have the option to stay...
How is 24 hours of notice even legal? Doesn’t a college need to follow the same eviction rules as any other landlord? I am not against colleges closing, but students should have the option to stay in the dorms for the duration of the agreement or be evicted through the normal processes.
It wasn't really 24 hours? On Friday they said "be out by next Friday, attendance still counts on your classes" which on Monday changed to "tomorrow at 5pm, classes are cancelled." The residential...
It wasn't really 24 hours? On Friday they said "be out by next Friday, attendance still counts on your classes" which on Monday changed to "tomorrow at 5pm, classes are cancelled." The residential area of campus kind of erupted as soon as that email went out, it was something to see.
Which in any case is still way less than 30 days.
People who had "nowhere else to go" were able to apply to stay, but it was pretty poorly run. I myself applied because having to move back home would mean losing my job and likely not being able to afford next semester, but I only got approved literally 6 minutes before my scheduled check out time, after I'd already moved everything into that apartment.
I would imagine that colleges do have to follow eviction processes, it almost definitely was illegal but. I don't think anyone's arguing for their rights unfortunately. I certainly haven't heard of anything like that. Which, I mean, given people are suing for their refunds, I'd think people would be suing them for this illegal eviction if they could, right? Maybe there's something that makes it legal?
IANAL but I found this: https://realestate.findlaw.com/landlord-tenant-law/illegal-evictions-can-get-you-in-trouble-for-landlord-harassment.html I would love to see a class action lawsuit take...
I would love to see a class action lawsuit take these colleges to task. What on earth made these colleges think this was legal or even moral? What would have been wrong with having the students who didn’t want to leave shelter in place at the dorms? The fact that you only found out you could stay 6 minutes before you would have been kicked out is absurd. I am sorry you have to deal with this.
Wasn't there a whole AITA thread on reddit about a dad who got a refund from his daughter's University for the semester and she thought it was her money?
Wasn't there a whole AITA thread on reddit about a dad who got a refund from his daughter's University for the semester and she thought it was her money?
I got lucky personally, I only had 24 hour's notice to get my butt out of the dorms (somehow managed to find an apartment 2 blocks away from my dorm to get moved into as well) and got refunded a prorated amount of my reslife and meal plan costs. Besides the crazy short amount of time to get our affairs sorted out, a perfectly sane, reasonable outcome.
But I've heard some horror stories from other college students. 2 hours away from here there's a community college, lot of people I know are going there and while they were booted out of the dorms, they weren't allowed to check out. For some of them, a lot of their stuff remains stuck in dorms they no longer have access to, and the college is keeping all housing fees for themselves, every single student is just out of luck.
I just don't understand how that even came to happen and how the immediate strong backlash wasn't enough for every single college to back down from dumb policies like that. Are they not worried about their entire student population transferring somewhere else after being screwed over like that? I sure wouldn't want to be sticking around.
How is 24 hours of notice even legal? Doesn’t a college need to follow the same eviction rules as any other landlord? I am not against colleges closing, but students should have the option to stay in the dorms for the duration of the agreement or be evicted through the normal processes.
It wasn't really 24 hours? On Friday they said "be out by next Friday, attendance still counts on your classes" which on Monday changed to "tomorrow at 5pm, classes are cancelled." The residential area of campus kind of erupted as soon as that email went out, it was something to see.
Which in any case is still way less than 30 days.
People who had "nowhere else to go" were able to apply to stay, but it was pretty poorly run. I myself applied because having to move back home would mean losing my job and likely not being able to afford next semester, but I only got approved literally 6 minutes before my scheduled check out time, after I'd already moved everything into that apartment.
I would imagine that colleges do have to follow eviction processes, it almost definitely was illegal but. I don't think anyone's arguing for their rights unfortunately. I certainly haven't heard of anything like that. Which, I mean, given people are suing for their refunds, I'd think people would be suing them for this illegal eviction if they could, right? Maybe there's something that makes it legal?
IANAL but I found this: https://realestate.findlaw.com/landlord-tenant-law/illegal-evictions-can-get-you-in-trouble-for-landlord-harassment.html
I would love to see a class action lawsuit take these colleges to task. What on earth made these colleges think this was legal or even moral? What would have been wrong with having the students who didn’t want to leave shelter in place at the dorms? The fact that you only found out you could stay 6 minutes before you would have been kicked out is absurd. I am sorry you have to deal with this.
Wasn't there a whole AITA thread on reddit about a dad who got a refund from his daughter's University for the semester and she thought it was her money?