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    Well I have a bit of a problem. I live in Burnsville Minnesota. My cousin and I were on a lease for 1 year. After about 5 months of living with my cousin I found out he was seriously addicted to Cocaine... I asked him to clean up his act and not bring that stuff into our appartment. 1 month later he still kept doing it. I became really frustrated with him. After coming home from my cabin one sunday I walked into my bedroom and there was beer cans all over my room, and bloody cleanixs all over my bed. I told him I would be going to the rental office and break the lease if he did not stop immediatly. I have a perfect rental history record and criminal record and do not want to effect that. My cousin told me he did not want to stop and it was apart of his life now. The next day I went to go break the lease and told them it was due to my cousin and I, not fully explaining the drug problem in fear that it would show on my rental history as well. We were assigned to continue to pay for 60 days as well as pay a cancelation fee of 2200.

    2 months have now passed. I tried to collect the money on his part (1104.00) and he is pretending he has no idea of why I moved out and that he never did drugs. I went to talk with my appartment landlord and am currently unsure how it will turn out. My landlord confirmed that I was the only one who took the time to come and tell her the story, and I was the only one who took the time to break the lease. My cousin still has not turned in his keys or signed the cancelation papers in the main office.
    I just dont want to have to pay all of the 2200 without him chipping in the 1104. Both our names are on the lease. If we dont pay the 2200 it goes to collections and this will kill my credit score.

    I was wondering if there are any ideas or solutions on what I might be able to do to get this settled.

    Would I be able to get my name off the lease all together because of his drug habbit, which forced me to want to move out?

    please help!

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    Try negotiating with your landlord for more time to pay. If your cousin won't pay, your choices are (a) pay it yourself, (b) don't pay it and suffer the credit consequences, and perhaps be sued for the balance, or (c) try to recover the money from your cousin through small claims court, and hope both that you win and that your cousin pays the judgment.

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    Try negotiating with your landlord for more time to pay. If your cousin won't pay, your choices are (a) pay it yourself, (b) don't pay it and suffer the credit consequences, and perhaps be sued for the balance, or (c) try to recover the money from your cousin through small claims court, and hope both that you win and that your cousin pays the judgment.
    He also had a ak47 gun in his room that he would play with when he was all messed up on drugs. I had to leave my appartment many times because of this as well.

    Would this be something that I would want to tell my landlords as well?

    So basically because of him breaking the law and making me want to move out I can get off the lease all and all and have him pay everything instead of nothing at all?

    What usually happens if he has not signed the release papers for the lease agreement, basically I was the only one who signed the release papers. I really want to pay the 1104 and be done with it. Hopfully my land lords will be ok with that

    thanks for the reply btw! These are stressful times.

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