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    Default Responsibility for Rent After Abandoning an Apartment Due to Roommate Problems

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Massachusetts
    Hello! i am hopeing someone can help me. The story is kind of long but i really need some advice.

    In Novemer 2008 I rented my first apartment With a person I'll call T.
    We both signed the lease. She was Married and Pregnant.
    After we moved in she brought her dog which was over 100 pounds, Something that is not allowed and on the lease. We were warned that the dog had to go ( and it did)

    Shortly after she started cheating on her husband..... ( i wont get into more of those details i wil ljust say that it was immoraly wrong for me to continue living there)

    So i moved out and i called the leasing office only to be told that she would have to sign the lease agreement in order for me to have my anme removed. I knew she wouldnt. Well now i find my self reciveing letters with her name and my address from the collection agencys. I accpt that some of this debt may be mine, but not all of it.
    I have contacted the collection agency and the landlord , but do i have a legitimate reason to have moved out?

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    Default Re: Responsibility for Rent After Abandoning an Apartment Due to Roommate Problems

    Most leases would make you jointly and severally liable for the full rent - that is, the landlord can collect it from one of you, the other, or both. If it turns out to be you who pays the amount owed, you can try to recover some portion of it from your former roommate in small claims court.

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