My roommate and I have lived in an apartment complex together for 3 years. She got engaged last summer and so when we signed our lease this year we knew she would be moving out a month early. We found someone to sublet her room and pay the last month's rent. But neither of us made a 60 day written notice that we will not be renewing our lease and we are now being charged $675 for that month. She had already moved out when I discovered the error and put in the notice. But since she is gone and I will be the last one to leave, she thinks that I should be responsible for paying (after all she asked me verbally if there was anyhting she needed to do and I said no). We recieved a letter with the information from the complex, but she opened it and I never paid attention to it. She never mentioned anything about it to me. Is she legally responisble to pay her half of the charges or can she stick me with the entire cost?
2007-06-06 09:34:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Renting & Real Estate
Is she on the lease? If she is, then it is her problem too and the lease is a binding legal document. It would be in everyone's best interest to pay the rent. Of course she may moan and groan, but if it goes unpaid, everyone on the lease gets to appear in court.
Short and simple, if her name is on the lease, the answer is yes she is. Regardless of what was said or done.
Good luck
2007-06-06 09:48:39 · answer #1 · answered by Stacey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she is on the lease she shouldnt be asking you in the first place. Who does that? She should be calling the leasing manager and asking that person.
Since when are you her mother or attorney? If she is on the lease I think she has to take responsibility for her stupidity. Its not your fault.
Now you said it was subleased for the amount of time after she left. Thats my question. Did the person taking over her time sign a sublease? In my opinion then it would be the person that signed the sublease as the responsible party.
2007-06-06 18:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by financing_loans 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
legally you can only hold her liable if she was on the lease. the money owed will go into collections if let unpaid and report on her credit if she was on the lease. You can let her know this and she might take think twice about leaving it unpaid. if not then i really don't know what you could do legally. Court cost would not be worth her portion. good luck to you!
2007-06-06 16:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The clue to your answer is 'our lease'. Assuming that both of you signed it, you are both equally liable and responsible to pay this amount. If you only pay half, they will probably take action to collect the remainder from both of you.
Sad to say, this collection effort will reflect on both of your credit reports. If you are willing to have YOUR credit file thusly damaged, you will force your ex-roommate to have hers equally damaged.
The call is yours...
2007-06-06 16:42:44 · answer #4 · answered by acermill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she told you she was moving out...you should have made the necessary arrangements...I blame you...not her.
2007-06-06 16:41:22 · answer #5 · answered by Johnny A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋