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    Default Can a Landlord Remove a Roommate From the Lease Without Other Roommate's Consent

    My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Arizona

    One of my roommates is moving out. There are 3 of us on the lease. He doesn't care who replaces him on the lease and doesn't care for our consent.

    He said the landlord agreed to remove him and put a new person on the lease WITHOUT my other roommate or my consent.

    Can they just amend the lease the like that?

    This was rented to us as a group, not as a room for rent, that is why we don't want some stranger showing up to take the room.

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    Default Re: Can a Landlord Remove a Roommate From the Lease Without Other Roommate's Consent

    The landlord can agree with an individual tenant not to pursue that tenant for a violation of the lease; that wouldn't affect the rights of the other roommates.

    If the group of you are renting the entire unit from the landlord, as opposed to individually renting rooms on separate leases, the landlord cannot insert a new roommate into your unit. Your ex-roommate can propose a new roommate and, if you unreasonably refuse to allow that person to move in, that would end your ex-roommate's obligations to you (save for any existing damages claims or money owed at the time the new roommate would have moved in if not unreasonably rejected).

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