Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Verbal agreement versus lease
There are four people on the lease. One person had a parent specifically sign ''(the parent) for (my roommate).'' She shares a room w/ a girl who is never home and we explicitly advertised it that way and had a verbal agreement that utilities be divided between 3 people. Five witnesses can attest to that. (Our last roommate followed that rule until the end.) Ten months later when she is ready to leave, she refuses to pay back ten months worth of utilities until it is divided by four because 4 people are on the lease. She even agrees that she made the verbal agreement to divide it between 3 but her parent signed it FOR her (she's 23) and they never agreed to it so it doesn't count. She took the master bedroom and made it her own for ten months, cramming the other girl's furniture into the corner and now says she's going to go by the lease. Will the verbal agreement hold up in court?

Asked on 6/13/08, 3:48 pm

Robert L. Bennett Law offices of Robert L. Bennett

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Re: Verbal agreement versus lease

Oral agreements are as binding as written ones....obviously much harder to prove.

Go to small claims court, but get as many of the roomies as you can to be ready for court.

Answered on 6/13/08, 10:04 pm

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