Housing assistants??

University Housing Relinquished Housing Extension?

• My student wife and I live on campus in married housing at Brigham Young University, located in Provo, Utah. We were planning on moving out of this apartment by the end of November 2011. However as we were struggling to find a place to move, we petitioned and got the move-out date extended until the 10th of December. After we realized this date would not work either, we followed the same petition process again to push back yet again our move out date. This time until the end of December 2011. Tho board again granted our petition stating: "Thank you for the information. We will grant your petition. If it would help you could stay until Monday, January 2, 2012. We wish you well with your delivery. ". This was yesterday. Yes this is correct, my wife is due with our first child on December 21st. After we recieved the message above, my wife and I both sighed a huge relief, and then made plans regarding our move out date founded upon this desicion by the board. We contracted a new housing agreement (that starts on the first) with a private company, we contracted a storage unit and made arrangements with a moving company based on this desicion. Now issue comes from a message that I got today from the housing board. The message states: "I tried to call you but no one answered so I wanted to at least email you because of a mistake I made yesterday with your petition to stay until after the birth of your child. I did not check to see if your apartment had been allocated after your move out date was changed to Dec 10. Unfortunately, it has been with a family scheduled to move in on December 15th. I hope this gives you time to make other arrangements." After I recieved the confirmation yesterday that I was allowed to stay until the 2nd of January, I moved forward in entering into 3 different contracts (new housing agreement, storage unit and moving company). Now I do no know what to do because the guy who originally granted the extension pulled the rug out from under me. He gave us permission to stay until the 2nd. Now said "just kidding" What is my legal recourse here? I made many contractually binding agreements with his first consession and now I am stuck in the middle. I have not contacted the housing board since the relinquishment of their extension. I was just wondering the best what to go about it and my legal standing. Thank you.

• Answer:

  i have good news for you. ONCE you have received an extension or a 3rd, it does not matter, it is a contract. The school may come back and say "whoops, we meant to say this or that." Their WHOOPS has no legal meaning. YOU have an extension. say nothing. Just presume to stay till your end date comes. SINCE you have a specific move out date, instead of [end of this month], you do not need to remind them 60 days before that date comes up, that you are leaving. again, say NOTHING. available to guide you further