My question involves a roommate in the State of: Indiana
I moved in with a couple people who had an apartment already on lease. I was never put on the lease, never made a written agreement or had a verbal agreement with the other tenants, it was just assumed I would help pay things monthly. One of the roommates started stealing mine and the other roommates belonging including food, containers, soaps, anything she thought she could get away with. She never paid her rent in full or paid her full share of utilities, she would shorted us every month. She also brought people into the apartment that were previously evicted from the same place and was causing a hostile environment bringing these people over. She also had two guests urinate on our new couch both in the same night that we had to clean up. She would bring illegal drugs into the apartment daily and use in the apartment. The other roommate that is on the lease notified the landlord and the landlord filed for an eviction and told us to change the locks, after changing the locks the landlord is denying telling us that. The girl sueing me also called my place of employment slandering me making false accusations. She moved out on her own the day we changed the locks and now wants us to pay her rent for the next year, I have a court date in december. When she moved her stuff out her dad came with her and assaulted the other roommate and had a report filed against him. My question is does she have any claim against me or the other tenant? The landlord is putting this all on us and told us we need to get a lawyer. Sorry for all the info, wanted to try and cover everything.

