[RPPTL LandTen] I need clarification on 83.60

[Gioia DeCarlo]

Committee members,

I had a  father call me whose daughter was to start at UF later this month.
He and his wife found her private housing and entered into a lease for the
school year whereby the daughter would be in a unit to share with another
student.   In June, the daughter became ill, was hospitalized, and now
cannot attend school (at all this year and I don¹t know for how long) and
will remain home.  The father notified the property mangager, Campus Lodge
Apartments in Gainesville, by phone and email in June (as soon as they
learned the daughter¹s prognosis) that the daughter will not be needing the
housing and asked to cancel the lease.  The lease does not provide for an
early termination fee.

The property manager stated that it still has other students waiting for
housing and sent an email that it was in the process of cancelling.  Now the
property manager has emailed that it wants a $200 ³reassignment² fee and one
month¹s rent as a termintion fee.  The rent is reasonable ($550 or
$600/mo.).  I told him that rathter than have me write, research, and
perhaps negotiate, he might as well pay the $800 because he could end up
paying that or more in legal fees.  However, I thought I would put this out
there in case anyone has experience with this type of housing and has any
advise or is willing to speak with this man about taking on his case.

Understandably, the father is upset because with all that¹s going on with
the daughter ‹ who apparently is quite unwell‹ and feels that the landlord
should just cancel, which he thought it was doing from the 1st email.   I
have not read the lease, but the father said he read it and he reads that
there is no way he can just cancel.

Thank you

Gioia DeCarlo



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