NC’s Secret Law Change: Your Teen Just Signed a Rent Check for 8 Years! Bill Layne Insurance Your Local Protection Authority in Elkin, NC Call 336-835-1993 NC’s Secret Law Change: Your Teen Just Signed a Rent Check for 8 Years! Imagine this: Your 16-year-old walks into the kitchen, grabs a pen, and signs a lease for a luxury apartment in downtown Winston-Salem. They don’t live there. They can’t visit it. But they—and by "they," I mean YOU —have to pay the rent every single month for the next eight years. Sounds absurd, right? Welcome to the reality of adding a teen driver in North Carolina. ...