Question about lease and roommate agreements
Okay, so. I've been living with my roommate for 2 months now and it isn't working out. I knew him before we moved in together and figured hey, we get along fine this will be great. But we're not good at being partners in a space, he gets incredibly stressed and can't communicated with me, he can't even say hey, how was your day when I walk in the door. And I'm not good necessarily at telling him what's going on.
Anyways I was just kind of plugging through until I realized I'm pretty unhappy with 95% of the things in my life, so I'm changing the ones I can. And my living situation is one that I didn't think I could change until my co-worker told me she has a room in her place open. It would be ideal for so many reasons.
But here's my question, both of our names are on the lease, I've said I won't leave until we have a solid prospect of someone to live here and take my place. Can I legally leave when I've agreed to 12 months if we're not vacating the property, my roommate will still be here? And the other thing he said which made me angry and proves how different we are was, "Walker, my parents might not allow it". My response was well.. they can't really do that. If I'm finding someone to continue to pay my half of the rent/bills/etc. and if I'm legally able to leave then.. there's no way that my roommates parents who I've never met could do anything to stop me. Their names aren't anywhere on the lease. Ugh.
Thanks :)
YES!
It's called subleasing.. They take over your part of the lease so your not "legally binded".
Here is a type of form you would fill out.
http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/sls/downloads/file16953.doc
It's that easy :)
Oh. And if his parents won't allow it he can also "sublease" his portion to someone else as well. Maybe you two could find a couple who could take over the lease...
Believe me.. I completely understand.. Being able to be happy in your living space is sooooo important! If your not happy at home... Your just not happy!
Hopefully your landlord will be okay with it. But if you take the responsibility of finding renters, and you have them sign this contract, it should be legally binding. Then it won't affect your credit or have any type of negative impact on you trying to rent somewhere else.
Good luck!
Make sure you sign an agreement with your landlord and the sublessee that removes you from any and all obligation to repairs, damages, electrical or any other bills that may occur during the sublessee's time on the remainder of the leese. I have seen it happen where the original lesse was served papers saying they owed rent that the sub lesse didn't pay.
Also, you will have to get the consent of your roomie, his name is on the lease so he has a say on who else gets put on it.
Thanks guys for the help. I know he def needs to consent and hopefully we can find someone who will fit his criteria, who knows. But I really wanted this to be much easier than it has become. He was pretty upsetting last night when I tried speaking to him about it. I'll talk to my land lord if it seems like someone is a good prospect. thanks again :)
Make sure you sign an agreement with your landlord and the sublessee that removes you from any and all obligation to repairs, damages, electrical or any other bills that may occur during the sublessee's time on the remainder of the leese. I have seen it happen where the original lesse was served papers saying they owed rent that the sub lesse didn't pay.
Also, you will have to get the consent of your roomie, his name is on the lease so he has a say on who else gets put on it.
This. Make sure everything is signed and legal and whatnot. Try talking your roommate out at dinner or something. Since you are having problems cohabitating talking in a different (neutral) location may help. Good luck!
That's a great idea.. taking him out somewhere. I feel like we need to feel like we're friends still, you know? He said some mean things last night there were unnecessary. He's very immature in the ways he handles people and social situations and I tried to be chill and calm about the subject and he got incredibly emotional, started blaming me and guilt tripping me. It was a mess.
I'm going to meet with my landlord hopefully soon to talk about the legality of it all and get it sorted out. Thanks for all the advice though guys at least vegweb is home:)