Legal Question in Real Estate Law in North Carolina
My college aged daughter discussed via text sub-leasing another girl's apartment. They discussed possible move dates, but never signed a sub-lease contract either with each other or with the apartment complex. No terms of the lease were discussed or even what the rent was. The girls have never even met face to face.
My daughter chose to go into another apartment. Now the girl claims my daughter has a contract via the text message. Nothing was signed - can you have a text message contract? IE not dates, terms, or signatures?
1 Answer from Attorneys
You can have a text message supporting an oral contract. Now, if the terms were never confirmed then there never was an orla contract. To have a contract there must be meeting of the minds, meaning there must be an agreement on the essential terms.
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