Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida

My daughter has two roommates. The two roommates are sisters. They were best of friends before moving in together. One of the sisters is making my daughter a living hell.

What I mean "living hell"? Well, the two sisters decided to move out of their parents house. Their parents thought it was my daughter's idea. The mom started giving my hell. She even dared to send my daughter (19 yrs old) a facebook message saying "...if you did not existed, I would not have been dealing with what I am dealing with right now". Because that message did not make my daughter mad, she then decided to team up with one of her daughters (one of the roommates). Now, her daughter is using her mom to make my daughter's life miserable to the point that it came out that the roommate's sister, who also lives there, told my daughter that the reason why she is like that is because she wants my daughter to move out. All three split all of the bills. My daughter, stupid enough, put the light, cable and water to her name. Meanwhile my daughter address the fact to the roommate about washing clothes almost everyday, leaving the light on all the time when she is not in one room, leaving the computer on when she is not using it. Another thing, there are two bathroom and three bedrooms. My daughter does not have privacy because even though she stressed out many times that she does not want any one in her room, this roommate still does it. Two of the rooms connect to a bathroom. There is a master bedroom but does not have a bathroom in the bedroom. The master bedroom is next to the guest bathroom. This roommate has the master bedroom. Because of this, she told my daughter that she does not want her family and her friends to use her bathroom. My daughter told her that that is the guest bathroom and people are going to use it whether she likes it or not. It is the "guest" bathroom. She replied with "I don't want your family and friends using up my toilet tissue...I don't buy it for them". Another thing is with the cable. My daughter put cable in her name. They all wanted the dvr. However, the only one that would get to use it was the roommate who does not care about the rules they talked about before moving in. My daughter got upset so she took the box and put it in her room. The roommate waited for my daughter to leave then she went into her room and got the box and hooked it up in the living room. So my daughter told her "...I am going to cut the cable service so that you can pay and be in charge of it". The roommate told her that that was fine. She will turn it back on but will only place cable in her room, her sister's room and the living room. My daughter said that that was fine. Now, when my daughter got cable, she wasn't home. She was working. So the roommate had the cable man hook up cable in all of the rooms except my daughters. Now this roommate involved her mom and her aunt. Meanwhile, my daughter is Christian, so she has tried to make peace with all of this and it seems that this roommate does not care. She told my daughter that she don't care and that she is going to continue the way she is. My daughter has her food in a plastic container because when this roommate does her groceries, she fills up all of the kitchen cabinet and then tells my daughter not to touch her stuff. But the other day, I went to visit my daughter. I got to see her in action. She went ahead and opened up a bag of my daughter's chips, sat down at the kitchen table, got on her laptop and started eating my daughter's chips. My daughter didn't do anything about it because she wants to keep the peace.

As a mother, I am worried of what can happen in that house. This roommate of hers, has gotten worse and worse and all three of them just signed the lease in May 2010. What advise can you give me and what are my daughter's legal rights as a roommate.

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