I've lived with my roommate for over a year, on a verbal agreement to pay "half" the rent in Sept./Oct. 2005. During the holidays in December of 2005, he left out of the country to visit his father and mother for 2-3 weeks.
In June/July my roommates father past away suddenly, needless to say, he flew out of the country again for 2-3 weeks. In November 2006, I was "told" (not asked) that his mother was moving in for 2 months. We are now in March 2007 and she shows no sign of moving out.
In February 2007 I asked my roommate for the receipts for 2006 rent, he took 2 weeks to produce copies and notified me that I was never placed on the lease. That same week, he "entered" my room (which was locked) to turn off an alarm clock, WITHOUT PERMISSION. Feeling untrustworthy of his actions, I notified him, at that moment, that I would be moving out BEFORE the end of April 2007.
On March 1st I went to pay rent and start to retrieve some of my properties, I found the locks on all the gates were changed. I phoned my roommate in regards to this and his response was that he was not confident I would pay rent for March and he's demanding payment for utilities, as agreed, and does NOT trust me in the residence without his presence and refuses to give me a key for the new locks.
I have NOT returned since March 1st because I feel that he should not control my freedom, because of his paranoia.
I NEED TO KNOW, CAN I SUE FOR MARCH RENT?

