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    Default Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

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

    Hello All,

    Let me start off with that i appreciate any help in this matter.

    Details.

    renew Lease was signed in February 2015 but actually started June 2015. So this current lease is valid until June 1st 2016. I co-leased it with roommate B. While it's not important, i most likely wouldn't of resigned the lease if i knew it wouldn't of been valid until June 2015. I mostly felt pressured by the land-lord to sign up early or they would find a replacement and start showing my apartment.

    So last month around the 5th, i told my roommate that i was planning on trying to get out early of the lease. I laid out A & B

    Plan A : She find's a new roommate she is comfortable living with and able to financially work with her to cover the rent. She would resign the lease and i would be removed by the landlord.

    She asked when i could move out by within the given notice, I tell her i need 10 day's to coordinate people to help and work around my schedule at work.

    Plan B : I pay the early termination fee "$300" + 1 Month rent in full. We give 2month's notice to vacate. The landlord did say if they find someone within the first month, that we wouldn't have to pay another month.


    So last week on Monday, she tells me she found someone. I ask her if she is 100% sure multiple times if she is okay living with this person and everything. Before i started moving out i asked her if everything was a go via text. She said it was a go. So i purchased boxing materials and everything needed. I also got the assistance of my brother through paying him $15 dollar's an hour + my boyfriend. It took us a little over 6 hours to move out 90% of my things. Prior to doing this, i boxed everything up during the weekday's after work for 2 hours a night. 2x5=10 hours round about. I get a text morning of saturday, saying that the roommate bailed. Then later in the day after i had planned to move out saturday, she sends another saying forget the first text and that everything is 100% go and that her parents are helping her with the rent. So everything was a go and felt sure to move everything out and so we did. Only thing left was a mattress and tv and a couple clothes and dishes.

    Sunday, i get a call at 12pm saying that the person bailed again and that it was over.

    I've already moved out and everything. So i go and talk to the landlord, they say i have to have her signature to buyout the lease and now my roommate B is refusing the sign this document so i can buy us out of the lease.

    What can i do? I've already spent around 200 dollars in gas, boxes, and help "Feeding the help too" just to move out.

    I just want to be done with situation and move on. I have text messages saying everything was good, asking how long it would take me to move out, ect....I even have confirmation of when we talked the first time.


    Sorry if this is convoluted.

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    You're the one who wants to end the lease early, or be replaced as a tenant. By all appearances your ex-roommate has acted diligently in response to your announcement that you were moving out. You can try to find a replacement roommate that is acceptable to your roommate and landlord, or you can help her with a renewed search; otherwise, unless your ex-roommate decides that she also wants to terminate the lease, you'll remain a tenant under the lease through June of next year.

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    Can i not threaten her with paying my moving fee's to kinda force her hand to end the lease? She will have 2 months to find a new place to live or new roommate. Also, she is getting her deposit back.

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    "Can I not threaten her with paying my moving fee's to kinda force her hand to end the lease?"

    Rinse and repeat the following again..."You're the one who wants to end the lease early, or be replaced as a tenant."

    Legally you can't threaten her with anything.

    Gail

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    Neither one of you addressed the situation with the fact she gave me 10 day's to move out. I only had 1 weekend to move out. So i moved all my things, and now there is no-one replacing my spot and now she expects me to stay on the lease for 6 months. This was both a verbal agreement and through text.

    I took upon the debt of moving with knowing that i wouldn't have to move back. I have nothing in this apartment except a mattress.
    How does this sound right?


    This was an ORAL/Text Contract of agreement that they breached. In all definition, she is legally obligated to find another replacement or go with Plan B.

    By threaten, i meant give her a itemized receipt of my expenses to force her hand. Since those expenses were brought upon the verbal contract, and since it wasn't fulfilled.

    Also, before you say because it's a lease it won't hold up. It's less than a 1 year lease. It's not over a year. Also, the agreement that the roommate's friend was going to move in, was less than 6 months.

    Who would be come liable for the charges that i assumed under the fact her friend was going to fill out everything to transfer the lease?

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    Verbal or text agreements mean nothing. What should have happened, was the 'new roommate' should have signed into the new lease before you moved your belongings out.

    This is why landlords have you sign a contract before you move your belongings in.

    Your best course of action; put all of your efforts into finding your ex roomie a new one ASAP

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    Default Re: Roommate's Replacement Roommate Bailed Out After I Moved Out

    Quote Quoting eragon9898
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    This was an ORAL/Text Contract of agreement that they breached. In all definition, she is legally obligated to find another replacement or go with Plan B.
    Again, you are the one moving out early. You put the onus for your breach on your ex-roommate, and unfortunately your roommate was unsuccessful in finding a replacement. You can either get off your duff and try to find another replacement, work something out with your roommate in relation to the release, or deal with the fact that you're on the lease through the end of your tenancy.

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