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I'm renting a room from a couple that don't own the house and stopped paying g there rent so can I stop paying my rent to them since there not paying there rent I'm not on the lease and there landlord. Told them they couldn't rent rooms out
Technically, no. You are getting the benefit of using that room so you owe them rent for that room. Believe it or not, they can actually move to evict you for non payment. Unless the owner of the poverty is taking action against you for being in the home, problems between the owner and renter is their issues, not yours. However, you can gather all your documents and evidence, go to the court and see if they will hold the rent in escrow until all this is resolved.
As Rabrrita said, they are your landlord, and you continue to owe them money per your written or spoken agreement regardless of whether they have paid their rent. Are you on a month-to-month or verbal lease? If so, you could leave with a month's notice. Make sure that you have paid them for the time you have been there (including the time of the 30 day notice) and then get out. If they have stopped paying rent, the landlord will probably move to evict them soon, and you will want to be long gone before the sheriff comes to move them out.
The agreement that you have is between you and the other tenant. You are paying them rent in exchange for space to live. Anything between them and the property owner will not impact your sublet unless they get evicted, in which case I think you would be forced to leave as well? Best of luck!
Second the advice to get put. You don't want to be named in the eviction, and it sounds like the eviction is coming.
The landlord will name everyone who lives in the house, plus "and all others". If you are there, you will get caught in the net. It would be terrible for you to end up with an eviction on your record when all you were doing was paying your rent on time.
Second the advice to get put. You don't want to be named in the eviction, and it sounds like the eviction is coming.
The landlord will name everyone who lives in the house, plus "and all others". If you are there, you will get caught in the net. It would be terrible for you to end up with an eviction on your record when all you were doing was paying your rent on time.
Yes. Good advice. It is unfortunate and not really fair but if the landlord evicts more than likely at the very least your name will end up in the court documents and it might come up in a future eviction search. I would leave. If it does happen that you get caught up in this you should probably try researching whether it is possible to get your name removed as a party to the eviction. Also you might investigate suing the people who sublet the room out to you for damages, including to your reputation and future ability to rent due to the lawsuit.
If you do opt to stay put you might consider demanding that the sublet landlords agree to daily or weekly payments as opposed to monthly. That way you do not end up paying rent in advance which you will never be able to enjoy.
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