BadRoommate
Junior Member
North Carolina
I have moved into a residence and have not signed a formal lease. A roommate writes a rent check every month for all three rents, totaling $975, and, by word of mouth, the other roommate and I have agreed to pay her.
For January and February, the rent checks I wrote were lost by said individual. My bank is smaller and the check numbers were not noted as to be able to void them. She is now planning to take me to Small Claims Court if I do not write her additional checks for $650. Also, claiming it will ruin my credit if preceedings continue.
I have 4 days to give her the $650 she esentially lost or she starts the small claims court proceedings. Advice. Does she have a leg to stand on with no written agreement?
She has also been a miserable roomate: leaving our house unlocked for days because she lost a key, irresponsible, and cowardly (she has not formally talked about any of the situation). Plenty of witnesses for her behavior and for my checks being written.
I have moved into a residence and have not signed a formal lease. A roommate writes a rent check every month for all three rents, totaling $975, and, by word of mouth, the other roommate and I have agreed to pay her.
For January and February, the rent checks I wrote were lost by said individual. My bank is smaller and the check numbers were not noted as to be able to void them. She is now planning to take me to Small Claims Court if I do not write her additional checks for $650. Also, claiming it will ruin my credit if preceedings continue.
I have 4 days to give her the $650 she esentially lost or she starts the small claims court proceedings. Advice. Does she have a leg to stand on with no written agreement?
She has also been a miserable roomate: leaving our house unlocked for days because she lost a key, irresponsible, and cowardly (she has not formally talked about any of the situation). Plenty of witnesses for her behavior and for my checks being written.