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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| Clingy Roommate | 11/7/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I have a clingy roommate and I do not know how to deal with him without being cruel. I have lived ... A: I would say just from reading your letter that the two of you are not really very compatible ... | ||
| kicking out a roommate | 11/5/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: i have a roommate who is not on my lease. she has never paid rent on time...always up to a week ... A: You need to give her a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate. You can write and date it tomorrow. She has ... | ||
| Evicting a roomate | 11/3/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I have a roomate who is not paying the full balance of her portion of the rent.After speaking with ... A: Give your roommate (lets call her Sue and her sister) EACH a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate. Give ... | ||
| pet damage | 11/3/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I was renting a room from someone on a month to month basis. When we were planning on me moving in ... A: I don't know if you should buy her a new couch. Since she knew you had a cat when you moved in, and ... | ||
| apartment renting in California | 11/3/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I gave a notice to the landlord that I would terminate rent effective on the 10th. I'm buying a new ... A: Under no circumstances do you want to stay for another month. Your contract with the landlord was ... | ||
| Roommate trying to evict us! PLEASE HELP! | 11/3/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: My family and I (3 yr old daughter and bf) are renting a room in a 2 BR Apt. We are renting from a ... A: Your first priority is finding another place to live, NOT who is at fault here okay? They can NOT ... | ||
| Roommate Trouble | 11/2/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I want to stay until January 2007 and move out at the end of the lease period, but my landlord says ... A: Well, you are not the only one that doesn't understand your lease agreement... I sure don't either. ... | ||
| Roommate Trouble | 11/2/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I am living with 3 other girls in a 4 bedroom apartment. We signed a lease for 6 months. however now ... A: You have three choices. 1. Find a replacement for yourself that the landlord and the others ... | ||
| Rent | 11/2/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I am moving into a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath duplex with 3 friends at the end of this year. We have not ... A: There is a formula for doing this which I will add to this response. My real concern here however is ... | ||
| roommate moving out | 11/1/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I had a girl that lived with me and my girlfriend for 3 months and was constantly paying rent and ... A: Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you handled this whole thing improperly. First for ... | ||
| Getting Rid of Roommate | 11/1/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: My boyfriend and I have lived in the same apartment for two and a half years and about five months ... A: Take your copy of the original lease down to the landlords office and point out you never signed any ... | ||
| Roommate Left Me | 10/31/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: OK Sylvia, I've read through a lot of your answers and I can't find anything that fits my situation. ... A: Do these things in this order: 1. Go to my website and buy my Roommate Survival Guide to find ... | ||
| Roommate refusing to remove me from lease | 10/31/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I am currently on a lease with another girl, Barb. We signed our lease at the the end of August. ... A: Visit the Fair Housing Agency in your city and ask them for advice. Bring a copy of the lease ... | ||
| Live in Boyfriend | 10/31/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I own my own home in Winter Park Florida and I have what is now a ex boyfriend living in my house. ... A: Since you have a child together, that does complicate matters a wee bit. This is a domestic ... | ||
| Neighbors | 10/31/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I have 2 roommates and their 2 kids that live upstairs. We get along great. My husband and I live ... A: Well your main problem is not really the nosy neighbors (although they are very intrusive) but your ... | ||
| evicting a roommate | 10/30/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: my friend lives in Long Beach,CA. A friend of ours asked him if she could move in with him until ... A: Your friend (lets call him Bill) needs to visit the Fair Housing Agency (usually part of city hall) ... | ||
| kicking roommate out of house | 10/28/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: My fiance and I have one of his friends living with us for 2 months now. He lent us $900 to help ... A: Go to the Fair Housing Agency in your city and ask what your options are. As you know, each city, ... | ||
| Roommate/girlfriend left w/o notice | 10/28/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: What can you do when your roommate was your girlfriend and she has broken the lease by suddenly ... A: Well as you probably have now figured out, this is more of a domestic problem than a roommate ... | ||
| removing unwanted people from my home | 10/27/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I let my boyfriends sister stay with me on a whim, she called me crying said she had no where to go. ... A: Go to an eviction service and see if they cannot help you. Because you live in a mobile home, they ... | ||
| oommate lease obligations | 10/27/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: Well good news for a change! went to court yesterday to get the temp. restraining order against ... A: It is so very nice to hear from you and with such good news. Everything you advocated in your ... | ||
| my roomate has left us in quite the bind.... | 10/27/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: we talked to our landlord and she basically told us there was nothing we can do about it, she said ... A: WHY do you have to give a 30 day notice? Well, just because your ex roommate walked out and left you ... | ||
| Can I Give My Roomate a 30 Day Notice? | 10/27/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I live in Los Angeles and recently the situation between my roommate of 6 years and myself ... A: I don't know. As you know Los Angles has many rules and regulations about housing, especially if you ... | ||
| kicking a roomate out who has signed. | 10/26/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I have a roommate who is on the lease but they have destroyed some things inside the apartment. ... A: What you need to do is talk this whole situation over with the landlord. Explain that your roommate ... | ||
| Roommate trespassing | 10/26/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I live in a two bedroom apartment with a roommate. I am on the lease, she is not. We share common ... A: The first thing I would do is give your snoopy and rude roommate a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate. ... | ||
| Boyfriend moves in | 10/26/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I did call the landlord and they said that's there nothing they could really do about it since it's ... A: If he is a trespasser (according to the landlord), then the landlord certainly should have the ... | ||
| Boyfriend moves in | 10/25/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I have a question. What right to I have and what advice do you have in dealing with a roommate who ... A: Does the landlord KNOW the boyfriend has moved in? Does your lease agreement allow another person in ... | ||
| Room mates | 10/25/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: In March, my fiancé and I moved into an apartment with a couple. They cleaned the house fairly well ... A: Well your situation is another example of not putting stuff in writing. If you had written and all ... | ||
| my roomate has left us in quite the bind.... | 10/25/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: my roomate is really disrespectful, and even went to the extent of leaving three complete strangers ... A: Go talk to the Landlord ASAP. Tell him the entire sorry story (including leaving strange people in ... | ||
| Old apartment | 10/25/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: Ok when i was married my ex and had an apartment. Well we split up and got divorced. Well during the ... A: How about asking the landlord of the apartment? The only way it would show up on your credit report ... | ||
| Roommate threatens my life | 10/24/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: So I live with two other guys and a few days ago I got into an argument with one of them that ended ... A: The landlord has to have a legal reason to either evict your roommate (lets call him Sam) or not ... | ||
| Roommate and her Boyfriend | 10/24/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I signed a lease with two other girls. It was the three of us in the house and then one of the girls ... A: I think you can forget about getting any money from the bum. The reason is there was no written ... | ||
| Roommate Rights | 10/23/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: Three of us share an apartment in Manhattan. L had lived in the apartment and was on the lease when ... A: Well I see several problems here. They deal with trust on everybody's part. 1. Do you trust the ... | ||
| rid of roomates please | 10/23/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: My fiance is the landlord of a house, we rented a room to a couple(who said the both of them work) ... A: Your fiance (lets call him Jim) should give EACH of them a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate. You ... | ||
| Break lease, roommate won't cooperate. | 10/23/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I recently moved to a new city into a 2br apartment with a roommate I had never met. It has been 1 ... A: It will be up to you to move out, NOT your roommate. Start looking for a new place like yesterday. ... | ||
| roomate problem | 10/22/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: ..i have a roomate that payed his rent until the end of the month but i want him to leave right away ... A: You legally have to issue him a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate whether he is on the lease or not. ... | ||
| want my boyfriend to move | 10/22/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: My boyfriend and I are both on the lease. I pay a greater protion of the rent and can afford the ... A: Well since you are BOTH on the lease, that means you BOTH have equal rights to the place. If he ... | ||
| Bad roommates: Please advice how can we get out of the lease. | 10/22/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: We are 4 people living in a 2 bedroom rented apartment in Lincoln, Nebraska. The apartment lease ... A: Boy what a mess. Have you talked to the landlord? Does he know about the 4th person living there? ... | ||
| roommate issue | 10/21/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I let my brother move in and he paid rent the first 2 months and I wrote him a letter on sep. 18th ... A: First the police have nothing to do with tenant and roommate problems because housing comes under ... | ||
| Roomate moved out...failure to pay his share | 10/21/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: Basically myself, my boyfriend, and another roommate all resided in a townhouse in louisville,ky. ... A: I suggest you contact him again and have him meet you in the landlords office. STRESS THIS POINT. ... | ||
| HOW DO I GET RID OF HER | 10/20/2006 | Sylvia Bergthold |
| Q: I rented out 2 of my rooms to a lady and her children, I had her sign a rental aggrement. On the ... A: Give her a WRITTEN 30 day notice to vacate. IF she asks why you are giving it to her, you tell her ... | ||
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Sylvia Bergthold
Top Expert on this page
Expertise
I can answer questions dealing with roommate situations including compatability, leases, placing roommate wanted ads, what you have to offer to a roommate, sharing of utilities and other services, interviewing techniques and questions, some legal aspects of housesharing, clearance information, etc.
Experience
I have had roommates in my home for over 32 years and am the author of:
"SORRY, THE BOA HAS GOTTA GO!" A Roommate Survival Guide
Publications
The Los Angeles Times, The HB-FV Independent, The Arizona Tribune, Lansing Michigan Rental Guide, Roommate Locator Newsletter, The Plain Dealer,, Las Vegas Sun, Apartment Lifestyles Magazine, Instyle Magazine, The Whiz.com, Cosmopolitan, Under 25, The Portsmouth Herald
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