So I've been in this money dispute with my landlord from school for the past four months. I was planning on only being in the apartment I signed a lease for for only one semester. I told them at the signing (the lease was for two semesters and for four tenants) that I would not be returning for the spring semester as I would be graduating in December and I had someone lined up to take over my lease. They told me to not worry about signing a one semester lease and that the new tenant would take over my part of the least when the spring semester came along.
So, come two weeks before the spring semester, I talked to the kid who was supposed to be taking my spot and he tells me that he is not going back to school and screws me out of the rent payment of 2500 bucks. Again, my landlord never gave me an option to sign a one semester contract because I "didn't have to worry about it"
At this point I felt that it was fair for me to put up a fight and refuse to pay. I do realize that my signature is on the contract stating that I have to pay for two semesters. My landlord told me that if I found someone to live in the apartment that I wouldn't have to pay the rent.
Also, there are three other people (my roomates) who have already paid the rent, one of which (Jeff) also left and knew he was leaving and didn't have someone to fill the rent so he just paid the rent but is not living there.
So a few months go by and I find out that a kid (Ron) got evicted from another house because a few of his roomates didn't pay their rent. He DID pay rent on that apartment though. So he goes to my landlord and he gets put in my old apartment, thus filling the house with four people in it and on the lease.
From my perspective, that means my side of the lease was fulfilled and I no longer had to pay rent.
On Friday I got a letter reasoning for a monthly rent payment of fifty dollars a month until 1/15/10 to pay my part of the lease off. They also split the payment to 1,250.
I talked to my landlord today and asked her how many people are on the lease and she told me only three. I told her that I was aware of Ron moving in and she then tells me that I still have to pay because Ron transferred from the other location because it is under construction and his rent payment doesn't go towards the apartment that I lived in and he is now living in.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if I pay the rent on the apartment that means Ron is living there for free and technically five people are on a four person lease? Why doesn't Ron fulfill my part of the lease? I'm extremely stressed about this because what I "owe" them is a big sum of money. I'm a kid right out of college and can't afford that to well. Any advice or knowledge is greatly appreciated. I just want this ordeal to be over with.
Thanks,
Jesse
So, come two weeks before the spring semester, I talked to the kid who was supposed to be taking my spot and he tells me that he is not going back to school and screws me out of the rent payment of 2500 bucks. Again, my landlord never gave me an option to sign a one semester contract because I "didn't have to worry about it"
At this point I felt that it was fair for me to put up a fight and refuse to pay. I do realize that my signature is on the contract stating that I have to pay for two semesters. My landlord told me that if I found someone to live in the apartment that I wouldn't have to pay the rent.
Also, there are three other people (my roomates) who have already paid the rent, one of which (Jeff) also left and knew he was leaving and didn't have someone to fill the rent so he just paid the rent but is not living there.
So a few months go by and I find out that a kid (Ron) got evicted from another house because a few of his roomates didn't pay their rent. He DID pay rent on that apartment though. So he goes to my landlord and he gets put in my old apartment, thus filling the house with four people in it and on the lease.
From my perspective, that means my side of the lease was fulfilled and I no longer had to pay rent.
On Friday I got a letter reasoning for a monthly rent payment of fifty dollars a month until 1/15/10 to pay my part of the lease off. They also split the payment to 1,250.
I talked to my landlord today and asked her how many people are on the lease and she told me only three. I told her that I was aware of Ron moving in and she then tells me that I still have to pay because Ron transferred from the other location because it is under construction and his rent payment doesn't go towards the apartment that I lived in and he is now living in.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if I pay the rent on the apartment that means Ron is living there for free and technically five people are on a four person lease? Why doesn't Ron fulfill my part of the lease? I'm extremely stressed about this because what I "owe" them is a big sum of money. I'm a kid right out of college and can't afford that to well. Any advice or knowledge is greatly appreciated. I just want this ordeal to be over with.
Thanks,
Jesse