College accommodation / Sept booking fees now.

SDMXTWO

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Received letter this morning about college accommodation (private company) looking for the fees for September. Should we € / or delay till to see how things pan out. We are at the start of this terrible C19 curve at the moment and just do not know what to do with limited cash now. Has Gov mentioned anything on this? Ideas please, Thanks.
 
We had a similar situation with one of our sons who is finishing 1st year in UCD. He has now left the campus accommodation and will get some money back for the current year so at least that is a positive outcome. In UCD you cannot get campus accommodation after 1st year so we had sourced an apartment from a private individual for him and some friends from May and we were going to pay for it over the Summer even though it would not be used but it was on a 12 month contract so that's the norm. It would cost us about €2,000 before he returned in September. Anyway we decided not to go ahead with this due to the uncertainty of the current Virus times. Also we don't know if college will be reopening in September and while we are both currently working, both our jobs are also looking uncertain if they will continue so felt we could need that money further down the line. Bit of a risky strategy as college will probably be reopening in September but there might be more rentals available ... but who knows.

Not a lot of help to you but you should definitely check if the fees will be refunded if college doesn't reopen in September.
 
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