Dumbo12345
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Hi everyone,
I recently needed to move out from a house shared with 3 roomates. We were three people on the lease (cotenant) , and after many arguments and 1 month of nightmare (which I won’t give any details to make the story short) , they (landlord + roomates ) finally agreed to sign a contract releasing me from any obligation of the lease since I will be gone by erasing my name from the lease this upcoming month. I engaged myself to look for a substitute ( and also in order to get back my deposit ) but my roomates are literally giving me a hard time. They requested me to find someone who could pay more than the rent I have been paying with the justification that I was using the biggest bedroom with a private bathroom and start to give me an exaggerate estimation of the utilities, which make the total rent exorbitant for what it is. Plus, they are ignoring my request to meet any potentiels tenants and are giving me a tone of criterias that they want the new potentiel to have. On the agreement we all signed, it was stated (under their request) that if I do not find any potentiel roomate to replace me, they will not be held responsible for my security deposit. Since the lease won’t be broken as they are not leaving and I am supposed to get my deposit back from the new roomate since landlord can not touch the deposit that we all gave when moving in (unless everyone move out) , I am suspecting them on giving me a hard time purposely and planning to keep the security deposit ( which amount is HIGHER than 1 month rent I was paying as my share so they will basically make some money ) that I was supposed to get back from the new tenant. My question is : what right do i have on my security deposit even after my name is erased on the lease ? Do they have the right to take the security deposit of the new tenant that was supposed to be given to me after I am released from the lease?
Thank you...
I recently needed to move out from a house shared with 3 roomates. We were three people on the lease (cotenant) , and after many arguments and 1 month of nightmare (which I won’t give any details to make the story short) , they (landlord + roomates ) finally agreed to sign a contract releasing me from any obligation of the lease since I will be gone by erasing my name from the lease this upcoming month. I engaged myself to look for a substitute ( and also in order to get back my deposit ) but my roomates are literally giving me a hard time. They requested me to find someone who could pay more than the rent I have been paying with the justification that I was using the biggest bedroom with a private bathroom and start to give me an exaggerate estimation of the utilities, which make the total rent exorbitant for what it is. Plus, they are ignoring my request to meet any potentiels tenants and are giving me a tone of criterias that they want the new potentiel to have. On the agreement we all signed, it was stated (under their request) that if I do not find any potentiel roomate to replace me, they will not be held responsible for my security deposit. Since the lease won’t be broken as they are not leaving and I am supposed to get my deposit back from the new roomate since landlord can not touch the deposit that we all gave when moving in (unless everyone move out) , I am suspecting them on giving me a hard time purposely and planning to keep the security deposit ( which amount is HIGHER than 1 month rent I was paying as my share so they will basically make some money ) that I was supposed to get back from the new tenant. My question is : what right do i have on my security deposit even after my name is erased on the lease ? Do they have the right to take the security deposit of the new tenant that was supposed to be given to me after I am released from the lease?
Thank you...