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Kurt A | Roomate never signed lease, paid rent, but now is moving out? |
When we signed our lease agreement prior to moving into new apartment, each person (there are 5 of us) went and met seperatly with the landlord and gave security deposit payments and to sign the lease. Apparently, one of my roommates never signed the lease when he gave the deposit, but has paid rent and the landlord has accepted his fifth of the monthly rent for the past 4 months. Now, rent is due again for this month, and he has opted to move out, and now told us all he never signed the lease in the first place, and we never knew this until now. Can we be responsible for having to pay his share now since he was never on the lease, or is the landlord liable since he never made him sign, or informed us he never signed? |
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redwine
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read the lease. If the lease says that you are to pay a specific amount (i.e. $300/month), then that's all you're liable for. If you are on the lease as being responsible for the full amount, but are allowed to divide it amongst your roommates, then you are likely liable as a group for the departing roomates share. tba |
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Those of you who signed the document are liable. As a group is was your responsibility to cover all the bases and make sure everyone had signed the lease. The landlord obviously missed it- but again, no one is liable here but those of you who signed the lease. Sorry :(
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Most likely you and the other the remaining roommates are liable for the full rent, as you always were (since the one leaving never signed the lease). The roommate who is leaving should not get any of his deposit back. When the lease is done and the deposit is returned by the landlord, divide it among the remaining roommates or any other way that is appropriate. BTW - Do you have a copy of the completed lease with all signatures? If not, you should get one. |
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Lisa H
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Because you also signed the lease. You didn't rent 1/5th of an apartment, you and 4 friends rented the whole thing. Of course the landlord took the rent. I've never known a landlord to refuse such a thing. No matter who it came from. You could always civil sue him for his share for the rest of the lease, but you'll probably get nothing and will spend more trying to collect the money than you would actually get in return. Bottom line: those who signed the lease are responsible, but also check with the landlord and make sure he didn't actually sign a lease.
Find another roommate, and fast. |
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oopiedoopiegirl
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If he really didn't sign the lease and the landlord knew he was there I think the rest of you guys are okay. You need to contact the landlord and ask him why you all had to sign it but this one guy didn't have to |
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Mark H
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You all are jointly responsible to the landlord, each of you have all of the responsibility, if three more move out, you are then solely responsible. You can then sue the others, or the rest of you can sue the one, but you still owe the landlord. |
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Beyounce
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It depends on the State you reside in.
In some States he may be responsible because he implied that he would be responsible.
In any other States if he moved out before rent was due. Then he cant' be obligated for a place he did not reside.
If you can prove in some way that he said that he would be responsible, for the entire time.
You may have a chance to sue him for breach of contract. But do your homework. Go to the law library or take a chance and call one of those landlord tenant legal advocates..(they are not always interested in what they feel are petty squabbles)
but I feel that if it's important to you, then it's important that you do your homework and get other cases that compare to yours, that were successfully litigated.
It will be a up hill battle, but if you hang in there, you can be successful. I have fought my own cases, it also depends on the right person that you receive direct proper and helpful information.
Keep looking for that person. Not everyone wants to help...........
If the big rich guys can come out on top with a top notch attorney, so can anyone else THAT DOES THEIR HOMEWORK!
Good Luck. |
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nojam75
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You and your roommates are responsible to the landlord for covering his share of the lease. It is not the landlord's responsibilty to sort out your roommate problems -- it's not like your landlord can evict and re-rent 1/5th of the apartment. Your roommate is responsible to give the landlord a 30-day move-out notice, but has no other responsibilities to the landlord.
However, you and your roommates can take the fifth roommate to small claims for his portion of the rest of the lease. A small claims judge may be convinced if you can show that all five of you applied together for the lease. I don't know what your chances of success are, but the arrangement would probably sound reasonable to a judge and the case may scare the roommate into a settlement. Your landlord may even be willing to assist you with the case by providing receipts or statements showing the deadbeat paid 1/5 rent for the first four months. |
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Nikki
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yes it is your respondsibility to pay his share. if he does not have a signature on the lease he is not respondsible.. sorry!
:( It happened to me too, no good |
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hamrrfan
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The signers of the lease are responsible to the landlord for the rent.
If the occupants had a separate agreement with each other, you could try going after him in small claims court for compensation. |
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:: Coast.al
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Yes, if he didnt sign anything the rest of the roomates will likely have to cover the costs... he's not on the lease if he didnt sign anything, therefor is not obligated to pay...
It's not fair if he doesnt offer to pay rent or if he didnt give you fair warning (30 days), however, he is not legally obligated to pay. |
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Expert Realtor
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All of you should have went down to the landlord as a group to sign the lease together. He probably went to kick in his part of the deposit and just told the landlord he didn't want to be on the lease.
HOWEVER....that doesn't get him off entirely.
A statutory lease (by operation of law) is what YOU have with HIM. Your deadbeat roommate just doesn't have one with the landlord.
Too many people that are ignorant on real estate law think that if you don't have something in writing neither party has any rights and that isn't true. All you have to do is prove your roommate lived there and you have yourself plus 3 other witnesses that will state he was paying rent/utilities/etc.
If he was living there for free, you couldn't kick him out without giving him a 30-day notice, and the reverse is also true.
You and your roommates can sue him for TWO MONTHS of rental....the current month and the next month, since he didn't give you a notice in small claims, but the landlord has no authority to collect from him. |
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neanderthal
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no lease he is not obligated and it's not the landlord's fault it's you guys so pay up and learn from it |
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cheonsa
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i think its under landlord's responsibility. the point is... the 4 of you went there and met the landlord "separately". that's why i think it's the landlord's responsibility to let the 5th person to sign.dont ever try to pay anything except your own rental. |
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Diane S
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Read your lease. If it says you are responsible "individually and collectively", you can EACH be held liable of ALL of the rent. If he didn't sign the lease, he is not legally bound. |
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Phoenix
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you are not liable to pay his part of the rent but if the landlord is mean he might force you to pay or give you notice to leave. don't llet him bully you though, he should have seen to it everyone signed |
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Alex J
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well if he never signed the lease.....that means he can move out.....and he owes u nothin......if he paid 4 everythin.....u made no contract wit him......theres nothin u can do about it |
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NC
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Technically, those on the lease are legally obligated by the contract. Since, this other roommate didn't sign the lease it is a reasonable/logical assumption that they are not legally bound. But for a more definitive answer, see a lawyer. |
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Adam S
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Its actually illegal to ask someone to pay rent if they never signed a lease, so it could be on the landlord, but dont think your off the hook, im not sure. |
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