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Question about how eviction will effect me?

About 8 months ago I moved in with my boyfriend and his parents. It was recently told to me that they are several thousand behind rent. Something I had no knowledge of before.

They have been backed up on rent before in the past at this same place, and lived here for years before me.

I did have to sign paperwork in order to live here however.

Before coming here I had a perfect record and credit score. If they do get evicted how will it effect me? Is their anyway to change how it will effect me? I give them the money I pay and they are supposed to write the check to rental agency, if they weren't doing that I would have had no way of knowing.

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  • 6 years ago
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    Did you sign paperwork with the landlord? Or did his parents just present you with something they wrote? If you signed a lease with the landlord then you are a party they can come after to recover. If his parents just made you sign something, god only knows what it is.

  • 6 years ago

    If you have signed the lease and are responsible for the rent, then you are responsible to the landlord for the full amount of the rent. And, eviction because of non-payment will reflect on your credit history.

    The arrangements between you and the others on the lease are between the group of you and don't effect your responsibility to the landlord under the lease.

    If you gave a check to your roommates and they didn't pay the rent with it, you still owe the rent. (To whom was the check made payable, if it was payable to the Rental Agency, then the roommates couldn't cash the check and you should have noticed when you got your bank statement).

    Has the landlord begun eviction proceedings? Has the landlord posted a pay or quit notice?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    you signed something.....sounds like you are on the lease, making you responsible.....you need to figure out how back rent gets paid...and how to get off the lease..if an eviction is filed the landlord will either list your name if they know it or list you as jane doe...eviction is getting you out of the house....landlord would be stupid not to..if they know your name you record will show an eviction action will be filed against you....probably buy your excuse that you paid them..maybe not...judge judy probably would...you pay you either get a receipt or cancelled check...here is what you do...I said judge judy will probably believe you for a reason....my guess is they are behind three thousand dollars...arrange with the landlord to pay him off in exchange for not including you in the eviction....then just sue them in small claims court....hey, clean record and 800 plus credit score...small price to pay...they have jobs...garnish their wages ......you will get it eventually...if you had to sign so did your boyfriend ....sue him too...

  • 6 years ago

    Each State varies..name your State

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Wow... you signed paperwork... but it was only paperwork... I guess it does not matter what the paperwork said, because it was just paperwork. Why worry? It was only paperwork.

  • Tavy
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Your credit will not be affected as they would have signed the lease.

    I have no idea what you have signed.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    You should not be there unless you are on the lease, just move out.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Sounds like you need a new boyfriend

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