Hi all,
Me and 3 our friends moved to a house on lease for 1 year. we paid a deposit of $1000. after being there for 1 1/2 year
one by one we started moving out and at the same time we are replacing with new people. after two years the house lease is still in our name and keep on extending.
now we are asking $600 ( out of $1000 deposit we paid to house) back from people living over there to transfer our lease.
they are not willing to do so. we asked them to leave the place. we have called them so many times, but they are no even answering the call now.
we wont get out deposit back until they move out. and they are not even willing to pay a part of deposit to transfer the lease. what should i do now? can anyone provide me some legal advice??
Thanks in advance
2007-05-11 10:03:01 · 6 answers · asked by kris 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
The lease agreement (signed by you and your original three friends, I'm guessing) has a definite end date ... typically a calendar year.
Once that came due, you (and the landlord) had to come to an agreement on future payments. Did you sign a new lease (all four of you)? Or did it go into a month-to-month scenario, wherein you simply have to give the landlord some amount of notice before evacuating the premises?
If it was a new lease, be sure you read the fine print. You may not have had the right to sublet the property (which is what you did, by replacing some or all of the original lease-holders with new people). Even if you did ... did you contact the landlord and get the lease agreement reviewed and corrected with the new individual(s) information?
The ability to ask for the deposit comes at the end of the lease term - to those who made the deposit in the first place. ALL of you have to (probably) sign a document and deliver it to the landlord, requesting your money back. It does NOT come from the current tenants, no matter how they managed to be in the place.
You also indicate the lease has been extended (even after the orginal signees had left). This is not possible - since each of you would have had to actually re-sign a new agreement. If the 'replacements' have signed the lease in your stead, the agreement is now in their name - and is a contract between themselves and the landlord. All four of the original lessees have now evacuated the property - apply with the landlord for your deposit. Let him go after the current tenants for a new deposit, if he so desires!
2007-05-11 10:45:54 · answer #1 · answered by CanTexan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-07-19 03:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take them to civil court. If you moved out, you are supposed to get part of what you paid to the secuirty deposit back (if you left at the time, nothing was damaged or needed repair).
The security deposit is supposed to come from the landlord, who should have been notified that you were leaving the property. did you do so?
2007-05-11 10:06:24 · answer #3 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did you get a sublease? Has your original lease with the landlord actually been extended or is it a holdover situation. If the term of the lease has expired, give the landlord notice of termination and evict the bums.
2007-05-11 10:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by webned 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rent-To-Own Homes : http://RentToOwnHome.uzaev.com/?MvdQ
2016-07-12 13:48:16 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry im soo sorry i dont really know this one !!
2007-05-11 10:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by wow!! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋