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    Default My Roomate Bailed and the Landlord Allowed It

    My question involves civil rights in the State of: Pennsylvania

    I had a house fire back in july of 2012 and my roomate, girlfriend and I moved to a new location within the same town. We were in this aartment for 2 months before my roomate found work. After he had gotten his first paycheck he bailed out of the lease with the landlord allowing him to sign a lease in a different apartment in the same complex. I am now paying for a 2 bedroom apt and it is very difficult. I informed the secretary of my situation of not being able to afford the apartment on my own. He also moved out oweing me about $300 for the month while he was working. Anyhow after i had informed the secretary of my situation she had 2 men come and threaten that if i contacted her again they were going to call the police when nothing i said was ignorant at all. I have been having problems here ever since i moved in and feel completely dicriminated against. I moved into an apartment that was not a fresh apartment with a promice i could move to the one beside it that was being remodeled when it was finished. After it was finished i was denied the apartment because the secretary did not know that the owner/landlord had promiced it to another couple. Then i was promised that i could move in it after they moved out because they only had a 3 month lease. After they had moved out i was denied the apartment again because they said they did not want my dog in that apartment because of the new floors. They had already known i had a dog because i was required to pay a $500 non-refundable security deposit to have my dog in my apartment and the reason i wanted the other apartment was not because of the fresh remodle it was because of the side door which led out to a yard i could tie my dog out. I have no idea what my options here are. Can someone please give me some advice?

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    Default Re: My Roomate Bailed and the Landlord Allowed It

    When you sign a lease, jointly and severally with a roommate, the landlord has the choice of only pursuing one of you for the rent owed. If the landlord chooses to only pursue you while releasing your roommate, you will have to check your lease to see if you have any basis for claiming a violation of the lease by the landlord.

    If your ex-roommate owes you money from before he moved out, or pursuant to an enforceable agreement between you and him as to how the rent for the apartment was to be divided, you can sue him and attempt to recover that money from him through the court system. You should be attempting to mitigate your losses by finding a new roommate, consistent with whatever your lease provides in relation to roommates or subtenants.

    When you sign a lease for a particular unit, you have no right to require the landlord to let you move to a different unit during the term of the lease - you can ask, but the landlord can say "no". When the lease expires, you can explore whether the landlord is willing to rent to you a different unit in the complex.

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