Can I Sue My Ex-Boyfriend For Not Paying Rent?
Yes, you can sue him, but you are limited to how much and how many times in one year for small claims court. Google your state and small claims court to learn the rules for where you are. Your landlord can go after you for the full rent. But, you also have every right to go after the deadbeat boyfriend. You have to start with a demand letter to the ex. Give him say 7 days to pay what he owes you. Tell him you will be suing him for his half of the rent until/when/if your landlord allows you to find another renter and until/when/if the landlord agrees to take the ex off the lease. In the meantime, he owes you half the rent. You absolutely have the right to live there alone and expect him to pay half the rent. He signed, he's responsible. But, after you send off your letter to him, then talk to the landlord about what it would take to take him off the lease and get a new roommate. Best situation would be if the landlord would let you be the only one on the lease, and allow you to sublet a room. Then you can control getting roommates and kicking them out, etc. If he doesn't pay, then file a small claims court claim, and ask the court for what he owes you and your court costs. You can also try asking the court to tell him he has to continue paying rent until you get a new roommate. If not, tell him you will continue to sue him and continue to get judgments until he makes good. Good luck!
Can my ex boyfriend sue me for rent he paid (while he wasn't living with me)?
In a nut shell: Last October (2009) my boyfriend and myself decided to live together. We moved into an apartment with his name being the only name as 'lease owner" due to his credit rating being much better than mine. Long story short, he decided to move out four months later. Being a lease is a contract (a year's), he believed he still needed to pay the monthly rent for the remainder of the year's lease so to protect his credit rating. He has paid the rent, especially since I've been off work via medical issues per doctor's orders. I have, however, paid for all utilities, such as electric, phone, cable, internet and for our rented garage that is extra every month. This was FAIR, of course. My ex only pays the rent each month being his name is solely on the lease. Now, after months of not hearing from him, he's texting me that he's going to sue to me for X amount of rent! Can he succeed? After all, although I was living here with my children, he signed the lease for a year and HE alone decided to vacate (abandon the property, if-you-will). Therefore, whether he chose to live here or move out when he did, he was still responsible for paying for the rent, correct? Thank you.
My boyfriend is living with me and stopped paying me the rent without any rental or lease agreement. How do I get him out?
I know an Alabama they have to have 30 days notice of eviction. I don't know if you two still have a viable relationship or not, but obviously this is a big problem. Let him know you can't afford to take care of him and that he has to help provide.“If you are a tenant at will (no lease) Your landlord can evict you without giving a reason. But, they must give you 7 or 30 days notice in writing. There are some exceptions to this, “I found this on Wikipedia. I suggest you do a search based on your home state Google.
Can I sue my ex-boyfriend for unpaid rent?
I rented an apt with an ex boyfriend and after finding out he was cheating on me I wanted to break up. He refused to move out and wouldn't let me move out either. He said if I moved out he would not pay the rent and let it go to collections to screw up my credit. After much talking we decided that I would pay $300 a month for the remainder of the lease (our rent was $1480 and had 7 months left) if I moved out and he would take over the remainder of the lease. We even wrote up a written contract between the two of us saying I would pay this money and was no longer responsible for the rest of the lease. Well being the upstanding citizen that he is, he decided to move out of the apt 2 months early and not pay any rent or utilities or even clean before he left. I know have to pay $2100 (and this is after they took off our $650 deposit) otherwise they will send it to collections. I have amazing credit and do not want to screw that up so obviously i am going to have to pay it. I am wondering now if I can take him to small claims to get that money back? If so can I legally ask for the entire amount or just half?
Can i sue my ex - boyfriend for rent before the lease is up?
By walk out do you mean he and you no longer live together? He has moved to another place to stay. If both you and he signed the lease with the understanding that the rent would be equally divided between the two of you then you would need sue him for the difference in small claims court. You would file this claim against him by filing the necessary documents against him. Once you have filed the necessary documents against him, he would have to be served a summons. You may serve this summons or have a local law enforcement agency serve it on your behalf. (Recommended) There would be a small fee to have the law enforcement to serve this notice. When you appear in court you would need to be prepared to prove your case. Even obtaining a judgement against you former boyfriend, you would be required to collect the judgement. The judge would not have your boyfriend pay the debt. The judge would simply issue a judgment against him. You would be required to find a method of collecting your judgment. If he is working you may garnish his wages, Take action against his bank accounts and other assets he might have. You would have to find out the legal means in order to do the collecting of your judgement. I hope this has been of some benefit to you, good luck. "FIGHT ON"
Can I sue my ex boyfriend for the down payment I put on his car?
Basically I was living with my ex and needed to get a new car. I found one I really liked. Now his credit was better than mine at the time so we decided to put the car in his name and when the loan is paid off we will transfer the title into my name. I gave my old car as a trade in and they gave me $4000 towards the new car for it. I also paid the payments on the car for a year which was a little over $3000. We broke up and he threatened me every day that if I could not get the loan in my name he would take away the car. All the companies would not take over the loan and put it in my name because there was more left on the loan than the car was worth. Finally after being threatened for a month and getting no where with the loan I had only one option. I gave him back the car and bought a new one in my name. I am wondering if I am owed the money that I put on the car- that he is now driving? We had a verbal agreement that the intentions were for this to be my car and I made all payments etc. now he just took it back and I lost out on the $3000 I paid towards the car plus I had nothing to trade in when buying my new car since I already traded in my car towards the one he took away. Do I have a case in small claims court for getting back the money I put towards the car?
Can I sue my ex boyfriend for missing personal property and rent?
My ex and I have been split up for over 5 years now. He still has some of my personal belongings (jewelry ) and owes me his half of the rent and bills that I paid while he was unemployed. I have reached out to him via email and thru his family over the years and I get no response. We have both moved to other states since the break up. How do I go about small claims court and do I file in the state I currently live in or the one he currently lives in or the state where we lived together? I just want to put my past behind me already someone please help.
My ex boyfriend and I are both on the lease (month to month) at a rent-controlled apartment, he will not move out but refuses to pay any rent. Is there a way to get him out?
He’s not a gentleman, is he? What I am positing is probably not legal, but…I assume your ex is punishing you. Text him once a week - “you haven’t paid your share of the rent. You’re on the lease, so you’re legally liable for it”. Text him weekly for one month. Then, get a locksmith, change the locks, bring one copy of the key to the landlord and explain the circumstances, and that you cannot feel safe so long as that person refuses to leave the apartment. Be prepared to be evicted. If it were me, I’d welcome being evicted and have a “Plan B.”Another option, learned from the ex-wife of a friend of mine.She notified the landlord that she was leaving the apartment at the end of the month, then one day in the middle of that month she took a day off from work, got a mover to come in and take all her stuff out of the apartment and moved someplace else, no forwarding address, etc. She also notified the electric company that she was leaving and her name should be taken off the account. (comment: she was a bit dishonest in taking furniture that was really bought by both and thus “owned” by both of them, but she wasn’t in a generous state of mind when she left. It’s a risk, but compared to living with this guy, not a very big one.) He came home to an empty apartment.