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My youngest is in a student house share and an issue has arisen, over some months, that has led to them feeling unsafe in the house and they wish to terminate their contract.
The issue that has led to this involves one of the students (I shall call him X so you know when I refer to him) becoming mentally unwell, inviting homeless people in to the house, drug use by those people, smashing up his room, leaving the front door open, threats to kill, threating personal harm to himself, entering rooms without permission, noise disturbance, even the neighbours would call the police to him on an increasingly regular basis - especially when he would smash his room up.
His behaviour had become a cause for concern and they have called the uni mental health team, police, local authority mental health team numerous times and they've told the agents and landlord all of this as its been happening. The agents and landlord were very slow to act, they begged the landlord to get him evicted but he said he was still paying rent so it was difficult to find grounds to evict him, even with all his shenanagins with letting others in the property.
This has had an effect on the other students whereby they felt unsafe in their rooms (they have no locks on the doors), they felt anxious about leaving their rooms when they go to lectures - wondering who will be in the property when they get back, plus of course this has affected their studies.
They have all felt that they could no longer feel safe in the house and they left the house and came/went to their rexpective homes leaving X in the house, as he had nowhere to go and in his eyes, cant see he's done anything wrong or what effect he's having on the others.
They wish to try and terminate this contract (contracted until 31st August 24) so they can stop paying rent and contribute towards bills - so what can they do to achieve this?
The issue that has led to this involves one of the students (I shall call him X so you know when I refer to him) becoming mentally unwell, inviting homeless people in to the house, drug use by those people, smashing up his room, leaving the front door open, threats to kill, threating personal harm to himself, entering rooms without permission, noise disturbance, even the neighbours would call the police to him on an increasingly regular basis - especially when he would smash his room up.
His behaviour had become a cause for concern and they have called the uni mental health team, police, local authority mental health team numerous times and they've told the agents and landlord all of this as its been happening. The agents and landlord were very slow to act, they begged the landlord to get him evicted but he said he was still paying rent so it was difficult to find grounds to evict him, even with all his shenanagins with letting others in the property.
This has had an effect on the other students whereby they felt unsafe in their rooms (they have no locks on the doors), they felt anxious about leaving their rooms when they go to lectures - wondering who will be in the property when they get back, plus of course this has affected their studies.
They have all felt that they could no longer feel safe in the house and they left the house and came/went to their rexpective homes leaving X in the house, as he had nowhere to go and in his eyes, cant see he's done anything wrong or what effect he's having on the others.
They wish to try and terminate this contract (contracted until 31st August 24) so they can stop paying rent and contribute towards bills - so what can they do to achieve this?
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