A few followups on Cosmoline's wise and accurate post.
There's nothing "anti-social" about breaking foolish lease terms.
What the hell is "anti-social" anyway? That's got to be one of the silliest accusations I've ever seen.
"Anti-social" means going to an underground poetry reading or playing video games instead of going to the prom.
And "illegal"? There's nothing illegal about doing something that's not against the law.
Furthermore, what people don't seem to "get" is that the landlord is also "lying." The whole thing is a lie, and grownups understand this.
The landlord really wants to agree to a few things:
1. You pay the rent on time so he can pay his
own bills.
2. He never hears about you from other tenants, unless it's "What a considerate, polite, respectful guy you found for Apartment Q!"
3. You don't sue him, or give cause anyone else to sue him.
That's about it. Everything else is inherently disingenuous. Sure, as a libertarian, one might figure that the landlord can stipulate what sex positions you can use if you want to rent his bedroom. But as a grownup, I know that, unless he is certifiably insane, the landlord
doesn't give a ****.
There's a two-way understanding here, about what is really being promised, and by whom. Our court system and the boilerplate leases people use may cause different words to be used, but it's a lot of BS. The
real agreement, understood by both sides, is as above.
Sometimes, I think that there are people here, people who are clearly intelligent and articulate, who know about as much about the real, adult world and what goes on in it as if they were born sometime last March. I don't get it.