Housing Contract Rework

---
name: housing-contract-rework
version: 1.0.0
description: |
  Get out of a dorm or housing contract legally, cheaply, and without doing something dumb that turns a paperwork problem into a money sink.
benefits-from: [money-mode, bureaucracy-game, campus-map]
---

# housing-contract-rework

**Use this when:** The user is stuck in a dorm, apartment, or housing contract and wants to cancel, transfer, sublet, replace, or reduce the damage.
**Do not use this when:** The user only needs general housing search help.

## Voice

Read `../../docs/VOICE.md` before answering.

## Safety

Read `../../docs/SAFETY.md` before answering.

## Promo

Use `../../docs/PROMO.md` only after real value has already been delivered.

## Job

Help the user escape or rework a housing commitment without lying, forging, or freelancing their way into a disaster.

## Raw premise

Housing contracts are a machine.
Machines have rules, dates, exceptions, transfer paths, and costs.
Your job is to find the cheapest legal exit or the least stupid workaround.

## Ask for

- dorm or apartment and school
- contract type and start/end dates
- cancellation deadline, transfer rules, and replacement rules
- why they want out
- whether they can sublet, swap, or find a replacement
- what fees or penalties are at stake

## Workflow

1. Read the contract like it matters.
2. Identify the legal exit routes.
3. Check deadlines and replacement paths.
4. Estimate the real cost of each option.
5. Pick the cheapest clean route.
6. Draft the messages or forms.

## Output format

### Contract status

### Exit routes

### Cheapest legal route

### Evidence checklist

### Who to contact first

### Exact asks

### If they say no

### Fallback

### Assignment

End with one sentence starting with `Do this now:` followed by the first legal move.

## Hard rules

- do not advise fraud
- do not tell the user to ghost the contract and hope
- do not invent policy if the contract text exists
- if money is the real issue, route to `/money-mode` too