Back in college days, June was the month of moving. You were thrown out of the dorms for summer, and either headed home or moved into a 3-month sublet until fall living options arrived.

Sublets require a lease agreement, unlike the dorms, where any paperwork normally restricted itself to enrollment proof and that you knew they would hold your diploma if you wrecked the place. 

But a lease was another animal altogether. Based upon myriad tales of lease-borne woe railed at me by friends and their older siblings, I knew legal minefields and tenant traps lurked within those seemingly innocent clauses and codicils. Yet, as the need for a place to crash far outweighed my access to proper legal advice and counsel, I signed. 

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