AboutJonathan Dever, Esq Expertise Real Estate Law, Buying Selling, Investor, all types of acquiring property through "creative techniques" and fraud avoidance
Experience Super Lawyer by Law and Politics for the last three years, part of over 900 transactions in the last 6 years
Organizations Ohio Bar Assn
Greene County Bar Assn
Champaign County Bar Assn
Publications Personal web site and web articles
Education/Credentials JD - Capital University
MA - IU of Penn
BA - U of Cincinnati
Awards and Honors Super Lawyer 2005, 2006, 2007
Who is Who, Lawyers 2006, 2007
I live with three roommates in Brooklyn, NY, and moved in last August. We have a one-year lease, and all of us are on the lease.
One of our roommates wrote two emails to the rest of us in early June stating that he was not going to renew the lease. We asked him to talk about his decision and he vehemently declined.
After this we found a new person to fill the space, and a second roommate contacted our landlady to inform her of the first roommate's intention to leave and to start the paperwork for the incoming roommate.
We told the first roommate that we had someone to fill his space, and he flipped a lid, claiming that he never told the landlady and that the room is his, and that he is going to stay and fight for his legal rights.
We are not asking him to leave before the end of the lease. Our landlady is happy to rent to any acceptable person who works with the majority of the house, but we don't want to ask her to do anything that isn't above board.
The bottom line is that this roommate has to go. He makes the living environment toxic. How can we go about insuring that this is the case, legally?
Thank you so much for your time
Answer Simply get a lease with the new roommate. If he won't leave, then ask the landlady for a new unit and tell the roommate that he is on his own and will have to pay rent for the entire place by himself. The roommate is simply throwing a temper tantrum. Treat him like a 2 year old.
