My question involves a roommate in the State of: Washington.
co-tenant is on the lease with myself and one other. she is unruly, abuses others property and the house, tries to incite arguments among everyone she is in contact with lies and that type of thing, hasn't paid rent this month. has refused to help with utilities even though two months ago we told her that the utilities were high enough (winter heating and lighting costs, etc) that she should start paying a share and not a flat rate of this and she had agreed then, but never contributed. The utilities are a part of our lease only in that the water must be kept up to date, there is nothing in writing setting forth who pay how much or a ratio. Are we justfied in expecting her to cover a reasonalble portion, such as with 3 tenants, 1/3rd? What recourse if she refuses to do so?
she has now adopted a puppy, untrained, it goes the bathroom in the house. and she leaves the dog alone in the house during trips to bar for extended periods, from several hours to 1-2 days at a time. the lease calls for no pets, however my other roomate and I have a trained cat and a fish. these are not a disruption and do not cause undue ruin upon everyones things and the home itself the way her dog does. do we have any leverage here? such as insisting the dog be given away or that she leave?
she also smokes pot in the house and leaves drug paraphanelia and garbage/unfinished alcohol containers around the house. she has made sells or arrangements at least twice in the house in her room over the past week. two weeks ago we discussed that there was to be zero drugs in the house or property period. she has friends over and smokes pot with them in her room also. we believe this alone should be reason enough to reasonably ask her to change immediately or move out immediately. is there any support for this under the law?
she has also accused us and our friends of always talking &*() about her (whatever this means, i really don't understand) and says that if we didn't talk about her then maybe she would pay the rent. this leads to the latest, which is she has just become unreasonable and unruly and quite honestly seems unstable to the point I don't want her in the house anymore. she has also hit the other roomate once months ago and tries to threaten violence in veiled manners and definitely trys to start arguments or fights with us.
how do i get her out of the house? what is the most accepted civil but quickest way to make her leave. she has said she and this other girl (a friend she has been having stay with her in her room with increasing regularity) would be moving out this past week, they have discussed at least three other places they were going to move to together, including her family, her friends family and another, and 15 days ago she came and told me they would definitely be out in the next two weeks. now it's the 12th and has packed most of her stuff but not left and not paid any rent, we did offer the pro-rated figure for daily for her, but haven't received anything, to be honest i wasn't sure the odds on that.
our other co-tenant actually moved out for a couple months this winter to get away from her, because of her lies and threats of violence in the past, but then moved back this past week. this being when the one mentioned above had already said her and her friend were getting a place with one of their families and moving out.
i know the law stacks out fairly evenly but seems to favor tenants staying, but after all a person endures, isn't there some point that tips the scales towards the remaining tenants right to a peaceable, safe home? What are things that can be done to tip that scale along?

