roomate signed another lease refuses to pay old

[reana]

i lived with three girls all of us on the lease. our one roommate deciced that she did not want to live with us any longer, she signed a lease with another apartment building without our knowledge and now is refusing to pay rent after March because she thinks we can find a roommate. We found a temporary roommate for one month but don't know what to do after this month. When we first moved in our landlord wanted all the checks for the year. I didn't have any checks yet so the girl that moved out wrote up all the checks for the entire amount until the lease is up (september). The thought was we would just pay her the money. Last month when she moved out we just gave her a check for the amount we all agreed on (1/3 each). She is causing us emotional stress by locking the door to her room where she was living, coming into our apartment and taking things that are not hers when we are not there. She calls us and "drops by" our work and demands money and if we have found a roommate. We put a deadbolt on the door to prevent her from entering when we are not there, telling ehr she is only allowed in when we are there. I am a university student going through it with student loans, I can't afford to pay her 1/3 of the rent. I am emotionally drained and just want out. Can my roommate now and I get out of the lease, or is there anything we can do. Winnipeg, Manitoba

[Edited by reana on 03-17-2001 at 11:13 PM]

 

[HomeGuru]

Check the L/T laws of your province.

 

[dyuan]

You want out of the lease, but the landlord already got all the checks (rent money) for the term of the lease. So, I don't assume you want the landlord to return the money, which is highly unlikely for the landlord to do so. You are always free to walk away from the lease. Landlord got all the rent, you then need to settle this with your ex-friend.

The situation now becomes how to deal with your ex-friend-roommate, which is not a landlord/tenant issue anymore.