Cam received an email assigning us to out campus housing on Thursday. Also in the email was a "reminder" that children were not allowed in married housing... say wha?!
I badgered Cam into making an irate phone call (he wasn't really irate but I was) to the housing office. There was nothing on the school website with that stipulation, but apparently there was something in the contract Cam signed, but didn't read. I can't be mad at him, I never read it either...
The campus housing person said that no children in married campus housing is a Utah law (say wha, again?! we had a kid not four years ago when we lived in BYU married housing... however they are a private university, maybe they got out of it, so I let it slide). We did the only thing we could do, pulled out of our contract. Luckily we hadn't paid any deposit, just an application fee.
We have been looking at renting websites all weekend and found a few places, and hopefully will be starting on the paperwork for one today. There is an upside, campus housing didn't have W/D hookups, and I am not fond of community laundry.
On a side note: I think that law was made up. A web search turned up the exact opposite: "Any rules which limit the rights of families with children violate the Fair Housing Act and are not enforceable."
Maybe schools have special circumventing rights, but it is by no means "a state-wide law" considering Utah State University allows children in their housing.
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I heard about that fiasco. It's ridiculous, and you should ask to see how that 'state law' applies to their own rules when you get there.
yeah, i think this calls for a strongly worded letter. that sounds like out-n-out lying to me!
but yeah, having to take your laundry somewhere else outside of your house (especially when you have kids) doesn't sound like fun to me either.so maybe it's a blessing in disguise!
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