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I go a university in Ontario and live with 5 friends in a student housing apartment which houses a few hundred and recently left. After ending our lease, we each got a cleaning/damage fee of around $500 each. Now we collectively lived in over 6 different student/corporate housing apartments previously and NEVER ONCE got any damage fees.

When I talked to a lot other ex-tenants in the building, there is not a single person who has NOT gotten a damage fee. Everyone I know will be fighting the damage claims, but I was wondering if there is anything else we can do besides that. It seems the landlord is sending out charges to everyone, seeing which students don't know any better and can be taken

I recall when looking for winter coop, a lot of employers commented that there were very few 4th year students (makes sense since most coop students have their last study term in winter). Meanwhile almost all engineer/math have their final coop term in Fall term.

I would expect that Fall would be most competitive for good jobs (fb, google, etc) with all the 4A students. Does anyone have any anecdotal experience with this?