I signed a lease of a room. But I want terminate the contract. I talked to the landlord, he said No. what can I do? The alternative is to find someone to rent the room. but why can't I terminate the contract?? HELLPPPP

Originally Posted by ymich

I signed a lease of a room. But I want terminate the contract. I talked to the landlord, he said No. what can I do? The alternative is to find someone to rent the room. but why can't I terminate the contract?? HELLPPPP

You can always talk to Mac Offcampus. They deal with anything related to renting a house.

Its a contract. You signed. Its your responsibility to pay the landlord $xxx.xx every month for (probably 12) months, or find someone willing to take up the contract. Your only real option is to put up postings of your room. Good luck!

If you were forced to sign a contract a second time after living in a house for 12 months then you can get out of it fairly easily.

do they have an office? where is it

Originally Posted by ymich

do they have an office? where is it

http://macoffcampus.mcmaster .ca/oc...rograms .html

basement of student center! (off campus housing) http://macoffcampus.mcmaster .ca/oc...ic/contact.htm

EDIT: ^ owned.

Originally Posted by ymich

I signed a lease of a room. But I want terminate the contract. I talked to the landlord, he said No. what can I do? The alternative is to find someone to rent the room. but why can't I terminate the contract?? HELLPPPP

The reason you can't just terminate the contract is because it's a contract...if you could terminate it on a whim, there wouldn't be a point. It's a legally binding document. The only way you can get out of it, without your landlord agreeing, is if the landlord is doing something seriously wrong/the conditions of the house are such that you can't live in it and other specific cases, and there are legal hoops you must jump through--it's not a simple/fast process.

find said contract, and remove all evidence of its existence

or go back in time and prevent your past self from signing it

or if you dispute it, maybe a lawywer could find something thats against some bylaw to nulllify it

If you didn't pay the deposit, it isn't legally binding

If the landlord or their children don't live in the house I think you can just give two months notice and move out under the tenancy act or something like that

see if you can find a subletter! that would be the best bet, but make sure your landlord is okay with sub-leasing ?