Comments on: How To Add a Roommate to the Lease

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:49:33 +0000

Hey this is a great thing for me to find.
The story is that My girlfriend and I are moving in together I am 18 and just recently got a credit card, to build my credit. When we first got the lease I didnt get a good score since I didnt have one, but she got on the lease and I was told to try the application before the move in date, we try again and my credit still hasnt kicked in it would take another month or so to be a perfect score. The problem is that we dont know if I can be added to the lease before the move in date or even after the move in date, all this talk about rising the rent is scary, us both being poor college kids. We are trying to get a co-signer but the real issue is that we cant get in touch with the landlord. Please if anyone knows anything. ramen@rakunko-net.atspace.com

By: Wondering.......

Wondering....... — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:45:46 +0000

I share an apartment with my cousin. He never added me to the lease & now would like to move out. Will it be an issue to add me the lease & I can keep the apartment? My credit is horribel.

By: loves purple

loves purple — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:46:49 +0000

Hello i hope someone can help me…..i had a roomate that lived with me, and me and my boyfriend got serious and he (the roommate) moved out (with) the leasing office oking it..my boyfriend signed a PRE-lease to start a new yr but moved out on me..before it was a full blown lease and i had fees do it cause i couldnt keep it on my own..can i sue if i have documents?

By: Red

Red — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:25:35 +0000

I recently rented a 2 bedroom apartment in Chicago. I plan on having my boyfriend move in shortly after I take possession of the apartment. I’m the only person on the lease, but in my application for the apartment that was used for the credit/background check, I did list the boyfriend as an occupant in the apartment.

Is there a way to add another adult to a lease, but not have them be a responsible party? Sort of like a child on a lease?

I am the only one financially responsible for the apartment, but I would like my partner to have full access to building like me. I would have put him on the lease to begin with, but wasn’t sure what the apartment agency would do with one person having an awesome credit report and the other co-applicant a dismal credit score with a previous eviction.

Suggestions?

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:19:55 +0000

I am so happy I found these posts! I am going through Hell! My now ex-boyfriend and I got an apt together, and it just didn’t work out to put it nicely. After being “approved” to remain on the lease myself, I signed to release him and demanded that he leave me and the apartment immediately. He fought to stay (just to create drama), and the mangagement informed us both that once the Roommate relaese was signed, he would be free of all responsibility and I would have to sign a new lease. I never did. I have just continued paying rent every month like normal. Now I am more than ready to get as far away from this complex as I can. They have a mice infestation and I am paying entirely too much money a month to live with rodents. They have run me in circles, and I have reached my breaking point. I found a new place that is ready for me immed, but the complex is ignoring my calls, and constantly making up excuses not to be able to speak with me when I visit the office. Is there any clause or chance that I will be able to get out of the lease without having to pay 5 months rent at the market value for the remainder of the lease? Also, because there is technically no new lease that I’ve signed can I truly walk away scott free? I strongly recommend no one moving into this infested complex that presents itself as an up-scale community! (Kennesaw, GA)

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:43:03 +0000

yes as long as you are still going to school and have a job. depending where you are located at u may have to go infront of a judge to be deemed as a independant.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:26:00 +0000

I don’t know where you live (it depends on your local laws), but in NYC if you are on the lease and have a roommate who is not on the lease, it is illegal to charge your roommate more than 50% of the total rent.

If you get caught you can be evicted. This is to prevent people from taking advantage of their roommate.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:32:14 +0000

if you do this, does any negative credit on the previous tenants follow you even if it was not your fault.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:19:59 +0000

1st
read the lease..for right to sublet.
the full rent might change depends on the Landlord’s decision to accept your roommate.
You can ask for any amount of $ from your roommate depends on your roommate.
making sense on what you want to do depends on your mind and the mind of the other person

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:18:01 +0000

“Can I ask for $300 from the roommate, so I’d have to pay only $200, instead of $250 if split 50/50?”

I’m not sure of the legality, but this sure makes you look like a liar, a thief, and a con artist. I’d suggest re-evaluating your morals before adding said roommate.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:30:20 +0000

If I am renting a 2-bedroom apartment for $400 + $100 for all utilities, and the lease is in my name, can I add a roommate without adding the person to the lease?

Can the roommate pay me his/her rent, while I continue to pay the full rent to my landlord?

Can I ask for $300 from the roommate, so I’d have to pay only $200, instead of $250 if split 50/50?

Does this all make sense?

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:09:02 +0000

If I am under 18 and I have parental permission, can I move into a friends apartment?

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:37:12 +0000

Up until today my landlord, for the duplex I move into in June, has been very nice and accommodating. When my two friends couldn’t rent with me, he gave me time to find two other people. For a while, he’s been trying to get me to live with this guy who does work for him, but he’s twice my age! I’ve been telling them both for weeks that I didn’t really want to. The other roommate I found refused to live with a guy, but there were no interested females for a while, so I told him that if I didn’t have anyone to move in with by friday (yesterday) she would have to deal. However, to my surprise, I finally found a third person thursday night, and they sent the check out monday morning. But I was in for a shock, because this morning my landlord called me during work saying that the other guy had signed a SEPARATE lease (I have the main one with me and my roommates signature) on WEDNESDAY after he claimed that I okayed it. No one bothered to call me to let me know, as I was present in the past for the lease signing, and I had made numerous calls to him in the last two days without a response. I have three people and want ONLY three people. Can he do this???????

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:51:24 +0000

Hello,
Me, my friend and his brother planned on moving into a 3 bedroom house for $1000 including everything but electric. That would make it $333 each which is what we needed because we couldnt afford more at the time. Right after we moved in & signed our month to month lease, the landlord said that because we had three people living in the house, we would have to start paying $1400 a month. That made the rent $467 per person, which was hard for us to afford. After my friends brother moved out, the landlord dropped the rent back down to $1000 a month, leaving me and my friend to pay $500 each per month. Legally, is she allowed to adjust the rent based on how many people are living in the house? And if so, can she raise it that much? She knew in the very beginning that 3 people were moving in - 1 for each bedroom. Help!

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:22:37 +0000

I have a roommate who signed the lease with me on a month to month lease apartment. One fine day she sends me an email saying that she is moving out and asks me to give her, her share of the security deposit. The renter requires a month’s notice. Can she break off, anytime and say as I am going to continue to stay here, she needn’t give a notice? Also can she terminate her lease without my agreement? She says that if I dont refund her shar of the deposit, she would live in the apartment for another half month and then leave.

I told the renter that I would pay my share of the rent and give him a proper notice before I leave. But he says that he would order an eviction if the whole rent is not paid.

Any suggestions on how I can handle this issue?

thanks in advance…

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:37:13 +0000

I live in GA and was at one point listed as an occupant on a lease which i did not sign. but the story is is that me and my significant other were sharing an apt with my sister and we were both listed on the lease as occupants but neither of us signed the lease and after a couple of months she kept threating that she was going to move or we were getting kicked out which in GA all she had to do is call the police and have us removed so we upped and left and got our own apt. but now she has filed a suit against us for an extreme amount that is way over what would be owed if we were to be responsible for the rent and utilities for that month my question is if we moved out with no notice to her do we have to pay her for the rent for that month esp since there was no written agreement between her and us we have all canceled checks that were written for rent etc which proves we paid all rents and utilities but she has no documentation for her part esp for the 3 months she left us paying everything to live with her girlfriend.. if anyone knows please email me directly to peachstateboi@hotmail.com i have to file an answer really soon to her law suit.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 20 May 2007 04:47:31 +0000

Hi. I am staying with the family. I rent a room in their house. The problem is my landlady doesn’t like me to stay at home at the weekends. She always keeps on asking me when you are going out or if you are going out. Her attitude bothers me too much. How do I solve this problem. Normally I don’t stay at home all the time. I want to take rest at home on Saturday. But my landlady’s questions are disturbing me.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:57:11 +0000

I am 19 years old and currently live in my own 1 bedroom apt. In the beginning (6/06)i was fairly on time with the rent, but after college started it was hard for me to keep up with it since i wasn’t working very much and i was taking a full load of coursework. To my knowledge i’m about 7 months behind on rent, but i have not been evicted, kicked out, or even talked to about this issue. My lease is up in about 2-3 weeks and i have no other place to really move into. I have bad credit due to credit cards that i’m currently paying off and would like to stay here until i get back on my feet. I plan on paying my landlord the months of rent i owe him before my current lease is up, but, is there a possibility that i could stay in my current place if i get a co-signer for the new lease i hope to sign? What are my options?Help me!I’m very desperate!

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:07:48 +0000

We were living in Presidential Towers in Chicago for 1 year and our lease was not renewed because they found 2-3 bedbugs in our apartment. We wanted to lease the apartment again after 6 months but the management did not allowed us based on our past history (they found 2-3 bedbugs in our apartment, which otherwise was all clean). After hearing the bedbugs problem in PT (Lawsuit which was filed in March 07), it seems the bedbugs problem is quite old in PT and its not our fault. The problem was already there and unfortunately they found 2-3 bedbugs in our apartment and thats why they are not allowing us to lease the apartment. Because of the location and convinience, I would like to move back to PT as a co-occupant. Will they allow me now based on our past history and the recent Lawsuit case and the old problem that exist in PT? Any suggestions.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:03:34 +0000

I am in a similar situation. I live with a roommate, and his nasty, mangy girlfriend is here every day and spends the night EVERY night. She messes up our kitchen, and refuses to clean up. Amazingly, as I’m typing this, my roommate is trying to kick me off of my own computer so he can use it to do the homework he waited til the last minute to do. He is actually about to let his girlfriend use my pc, without my permission, which is the way he lets her use all my things. I personally am going to have a talk with my l;andlord today, just to have her removed from the property. If he decides to follow her, that’s just fine with me. I have had enough of both of them using me and being rude. She is too cheap to get a place of her own, so she’s trying to live here for free, while I bust my hump to pay bills. She has parents who she actually lives with when she’s not giving up the ass to my roommate, so she should just stay there.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:25:22 +0000

I live in a two bedroom apartment and my boyfriend is planning to move in with me in my room. How much should everyone pay? Should all three of us split the rent equally? How does this work out?

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:03:42 +0000

I’m wondering about the same question too. so if you have an answer please email me at esipilaann@yahoo.com

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:28:57 +0000

I dont have a lease and I was wondering how I might go about getting a room mate. My landlord told me when I first moved in that I wasnt allowed to have one. Its been 6 months now and ive been a good tenant. Im only 18 so I would assume that that has something to do with it. Would anyone recommend I just have someone move in anyways, I dont want to make my landlord mad at me, but his reasons are always bogus. The first time I asked him he said it was because I would be there and my girlfriend, and my room mate and his girlfriend. My landlord said that was too many people but it didnt make sense because neither of our girlfriends do/will live there. Can any one help me? Thankyou, Seth

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:10:40 +0000

I’m thinking about adding my boyfriend onto my lease. He has been sleeping at my house almost every night for the past month and sometimes is there during the day while I am at work. I gave him a copy of my key. He is not currently on my lease. I’m a little worried that I may get in trouble for having him stay over repeatedly, although he hasn’t officially moved anything in, just a few changes of clothes. How would a landlord prove he’s an illegal occupant? If I pay my rent on time, and don’t cause any problems, how likely is it that this would be acted on? The property owner is not local, the property manager (superintendent) lives on site. We haven’t been together for very long so I’m not sure I want him to officially move in yet, but I don’t want us to get in trouble. I’m financially responsible for all of the bills.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:39:11 +0000

I hope someone can help me. My husband and I (NJ) are living in a high crime area currently in a 2 family private home. When our lease is up in May we want to move out because we just HATE it here. We would prefer to get into a complex because we believe the management is better than a private home. Our problem…we both have pretty bad credit. It has nothing to do with paying our rent. We are faithful and on time with it every month. We are also expecting our fist baby the end of this summer and we sure don’t want to bring a new baby home to a bad neighborhood. Does anyone know if a complex might make any exceptions in our situation? Or are we just out of luck?