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    Default Getting Charged for Roomates Unpaid Rent

    My question involves a roommate in the State of: Michigan


    I'v lived with said roommate for about two and a half years, and everything was fine, we had become good friends and had gone to school together. She allowed her boyfriend to move in with us when he had no were else to go and because he did house chores, but he did not pay any rent or had a job that I knew of.
    In the fall of 2009 however after I had gone to visit family out of state , They had decidedly moved her boyfriends mother into the apartment, without consulting me.

    After a couple of days I asked if she was staying and when my roommate answer "yes" I told her that if she wanted them both to stay they had to be on the lease and paying rent, and that I would move out.

    I had gone to the Main office and talked to the residential manager at the time and she told me that it would be okay if we did that, but if they would no I could call

    Two days later, My roomate decided that she didnt want to put them on the lease. So I called the non emergency number to have her boyfriend and his mother forcible removed from the premises. The thing was that I couldnt have the boyfriend removed because after a year he had become a live in resident.

    So the following day I gave my thirty day notice to the residential manager, payed my rent and looked for a new apartment.When it came time for me to move out, i gave the manager my keys and a forwarding address for my mail.

    Three months later it turns out that My roomate also moved out and without a notice, turning in her keys ,or paying her owed rent.

    Now our account has been given to collectors and since I'm the only one who left any information, they keep contacting me, I explained to them what had happened, but because we were both on the lease, we are both equally responsible, I have my payment receipts, but the residential manager who spoke to me no longer works there.

    I know where my ex-roomate works,and I have been given her the mail that they send me in her name, but she wont responded to the collector.

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    Default Re: Getting Charged for Roomates Nonpayed Rent

    When you say you have receipts, you mean...receipts for the rent until the end of the lease term?

    Did you leave at the end of the lease, or before it ended? If before, were you formally released from the lease, or did you just give notice and leave?

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    Default Re: Getting Charged for Roomates Nonpayed Rent

    No. I moved out before the lease was up, but the Property owner told me that as long as we payed the rent up until the month we moved out it was all right as long as we gave notice.

    The Issue is that My Roomate did not pay her half of the rent before she left. So there is a balance , and since we are both on the list I am also responsible for it.

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    Default Re: Getting Charged for Roomates Nonpayed Rent

    If you want to salvage your own credit - because, yes, you are responsible if she doesn't pay up - you might consider just paying the past due amount, then suing her in small claims court.

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