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I've been trying to help my former roommate find a roommate to replace my spot in the apartment. It has been 61 days now since my first set of ads online and facebook post. I moved away to CA and still paid rent but now I have to afford my own rent where I live in CA. He has a lease that is another year longer since he signed for 2 years. I came on after he signed for 2 years but was added to the lease and he's saying I'm liable for payment until the lease ends. He's also being picky about who's going to potentially move with him.
I cannot vet anyone that's going to live with him since this is in Arlington, VA and he's claiming I'm not putting in the effort to help him find someone and that he's helping me by adjusting his weekends to let people come by the place and visit. At this point, I'm just ticked off and offered to break the lease and pay half of my portion for up to two months, which is stipulated in our lease. However, he's trying to say I'll be liable for all lease break fees instead of half even though we're both on it.
He's also trying to charge me for his cable bill he uses which is in his name and he has every package that I never asked for, as well as other utilities.
Seek the guidance of an attorney for any legal steps you need to take.
No one on this forum can or will give you legal advice and be sure to take a copy of the lease you signed so the attorney
can read it.
When you say you were added to the lease....in what way? The actual lease the landlord and your friend signed? And then the landlord met you, checked your references/credit, approved you and added you to that lease?
Or is this a makeshift/hope it sticks version your friend did and the landlord was never informed?
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