Hi,
I am a graduate student on a tight budget, so I don't have the ability to pay for a lawyer to advise on a lease question that just came up—any help would be hugely appreciated!
I'm renting a house and am wondering if you all have any sense whether it's a common or advisable practice for a landlord to have a lease with one primary person in a house, who then has multiple secondary leases with others in the house. That is the situation I lived in this year (as one of the secondary leasees, not the primary), and I'm trying to decide about staying in my house and taking on that primary role (where I'd basically be signing that I'm liable for the full $1200 house rent, which I'd then get in part from two others who would move into the house with me).
I just hate moving and love my place, so I'm inclined to stay, but was going to see if there was any basic legal advice that I could share with my landlord that may convince her that it's a better legal/business decision for her to have everyone on the lease, opposed to having a lease with me who then has to have two leases with others.
Many, many thanks.
I am a graduate student on a tight budget, so I don't have the ability to pay for a lawyer to advise on a lease question that just came up—any help would be hugely appreciated!
I'm renting a house and am wondering if you all have any sense whether it's a common or advisable practice for a landlord to have a lease with one primary person in a house, who then has multiple secondary leases with others in the house. That is the situation I lived in this year (as one of the secondary leasees, not the primary), and I'm trying to decide about staying in my house and taking on that primary role (where I'd basically be signing that I'm liable for the full $1200 house rent, which I'd then get in part from two others who would move into the house with me).
I just hate moving and love my place, so I'm inclined to stay, but was going to see if there was any basic legal advice that I could share with my landlord that may convince her that it's a better legal/business decision for her to have everyone on the lease, opposed to having a lease with me who then has to have two leases with others.
Many, many thanks.