My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: Colorado
I signed a sublease with a Master Tenant which was authorized by the property owner and acknowledged on the Master Tenant's lease as authorized this past July. Everything was fine until about 3 weeks ago when I found out that our trash service had been cancelled. I confronted the Master Tenant about this and she claimed it was an error on her part. 2 weeks went by and our trash service finally resumed. Now I have come to find out that she has not paid our gas bill since July 27th, the electric/water is 2 months overdue, and the cable/internet is 2 months overdue. I have paid her for 3 months worth of all of these utilities and it seems like she is pocketing most of it and not paying the bills. I would have paid her more but she is lazy about getting me the amounts and I have to nag her all of the time. I am assuming it is because she is having SEVERE financial problems. I have spoken to her generally about any problems she is having and she confirmed that she did indeed have money troubles. When I get the mail I also see numerous collection letters and NSF charge letters from her bank on a weekly basis. I confronted her today about this and after a swift bout of irrationality she told me that she was breaking her lease with the property owner and was moving to Wyoming by the end of January. I contacted the property owner to confirm everything and inform him about the past due utilities that she had not paid. While I know I have no recourse with the property owner and I am obviously going to have to move myself, can I sue the Master Tenant for moving expenses (I will be moving to NJ so that will not be cheap) and possibly any differences in future rents over the original lease term? I am not necessarily interested in tort (though that would be nice under the circumstances) but I do want to recover anything that I am legally entitled to pursue. Both of our leases were to be through the end of August 2012 and I at least imagine that the property owner will be taking legal action against her also. Also, wouldn't she already be breaching BOTH my lease with her and her lease with the property owner by not paying utilities as prescribed in both leases? I also know that she has 'bounced' each rent check to the property owner for the last 2 months and while I have paid her my full portion every month including rent for December, she has yet to pay the property owner for this month. Going crazy and had a horrible day. Any insight would be appreciated.

