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I co sign for my son and his girlfriend for a place to live. myself and the landlorn had a verbal agreement that my name will come off the lease in six months. My son girlfriend moved out they didn't give a new rental agreement, My son fell on hard times and got behind on his rent over $7000.00, the landlord never inform me what was going on with my son. He say i owe the money because he never took my name off the rental agreement. he said we never had no such agreement to take my name off. but we did. what can i do. also my son been living their for (3) years. and his girlfrind is still on the rental agreement. they said she gave a 30 day notice.
 
Verbal agreements aren't worth the paper they're not written on.

There are some confusing things in your posting. How long was the orginal lease for? Did it indicate that, if a year lease, it automatically renewed once this year was up? Did the girlfriend also sign the lease?

Gail
 
the lease was a month to month lease, yes the girlfriend did sign the lease. they said she gave a 30 days notice. but her name is on the orginal rental agreement. some rental agreement have a space were the co signer signs, but this rental agreement didn't have that. they had me sign were the tanant sign. i live in the same complex were my son live. if i were still on the lease, or they obligated to inform me before the rent got over $7000,00. i talk to my son he said he never got a 3 days notice the hold time he lived their, because he had made deal with the landlord to work the rent off. he did work but they never credit him. also my son and his xgirlfriend was thier when myself and the landlord made the agreement that my name was to come off the lease after 6 mos. and they both heard him.
 
The person you should be angry with is your son for getting behind on his rent to the tune of $7000 and not letting you know about this.

Unfortunately, you signed as a tenant, thereby agreeing to be responsible for the rent.

The girlfriend can't be held responsible; in a month to month tenancy all one needs to do (depending on the particular state) is give a 30 day notice that they are terminating the lease.

Gail
 
gail in the state of califorina, a verbal agreement is as good as a writing agreement. were is his morals. if my son owe money he should pay but i should not be held liable. also i think the landlord used bad judgement to let the rent go this far. i still say he should have contacted me before the rent got out of hand. i think this was done purposely to hurt me and my son. if they take me to court i will fight them back. also i am disable, they will try and gaurnish my check but they can't. i'm sure my son will make arrangement with them but if it was me i would not pay them anything because they did that out of spite. they was aware he was on hard times, they even let him work for awhile, than they stop calling him and hired the mexicans for cheap wages.
 
It's important to keep in mind that lawsuits are about money, not morals. One could argue that as an adult your son should have realized his obligations to pay rent and not let this get into the $7000 range.

At any rate when this goes to court you can argue that you don't owe anything because of the verbal agreement. This won't get your son off the hook for his share of the owed rent. Good luck.

Gail
 
you are right i think my son should pay the landlord if the money is owed. but if the landlord, knew he couldn't pay , the landlord have place himself in a knowing situation so it make the landlord liable as well. as for me i think if we go to court the judge will side with me, because i lived here for 7 yrs, never was late on my rent and never gave my landlord any problems also i never was e-victed in my life. and i still say the landlord did this out of spite. maybe this was the way to get me and my son out. i don't know. if they take me to court they better be ready because i will counter sue them.
 
Your argument doesn't make sense. Why would the landlord do this out of spite or to get you and your son out of there?

Your landlord could have evicted your son and then sued you (as the co-signer) and your son for the amount of rent owed at any time. It was your son who ran the risk of being evicted for non-payment of rent. None of this would have happened if he had kept up with his rent payments.

Gail
 
gail if you were an attorney, it sould like you would sell your client down the river. the reason is i'm disable and my landlord can sue but he can't get anything from me, my son yes he can. another is that you are thinking like a landlord, as long as i get mind i don't care who i hurt. now you know that the landlord should have got in touch with me before the rent got that high, if i were still on that lease. i am not saying that my son is right to let the rent get to out of hand. but the landlord have an obligation also to not let rent get out of hands. if you are a landlord would you let your manager do this type of unjustise to your tanents. this is unjustise and unrespondsiable on both parts. their will be no eviction, he agreed to move in 30 days. and make arrangment to pay the balance.
 
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