tenant/moved

[snowpuppy]

I was a tenant at another house, I moved 1 day before
the rent was due. I had a friend that was being evicted
from her home, she needed a place to rent. I told her,
instead of my old landlord losing any time or rent, for
her to take my old house. she agreed and I called the old landlord what was going on, He liked the idea , and came and picked her check up.
Everything was ok untill about a week or so latter, her check was no good. Well the landlord came and told her she was trust passing and she needed to get out. then he came to me and said any damages was my responsibilty. Next this so called friend was very upset so after the landlord had left her and talked to me, she picked up a baseball bat and went through the entire house and beat every wall in there. landlord came back to me and said I owed 3400.00 in dameges to him.
Am I responsible, for any of this?

 

[mary hartman]

uh snowpuppy are you dense?

lets see you left without paying the rent and you let someone else who was being evicted move in...

DOOFUS!

You are responsible for the months rent plus all legal fees and any costs to re rent.... since she NEVER had a lease, YOU DID!

But SHE is responsible for her actions of destroying the property, and criminal charges should have been brought against her for malicious destruction of property.

 

[snowpuppy]

I don't understand;; the rent was month to month.
The landlord agreed, to her moving in so how am I
responsible. He also walked the house down with the
new tenant. And because my friend was evicted didn't
mean she didn;t have any money. She had a job so I TRUSTED HER.
Sorry I didn;t post the state I live in. Texas

[Edited by snowpuppy on 03-26-2001 at 08:13 PM]

 

[mary hartman]

well you should get a lawyer to defend you, in court....since the lease was month to month, did you give the landlord a 30 day notice to vacate? And You moved out 1 day before the end of the month? Then you would not be liable for that month.

BUT if you gave no notice, and got your friend in there then you did NOT give your 30 day notice and you would owe rent for that month, Since she bounced a check... What you think the landlord should lose rent money ON YOU?

So the destruction is still all hers...why wasnt she arrested? That would be the right thing to do to protect your rights.

 

[snowpuppy]

thank you,

she was arresed....