Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Illinois

I have a roomate that is staying with me and i am the only one on the lease he got into legal trouble and drawing negative attention to the apartment through fighting with other individuals. I'm just trying to get my degree along and am rarely home. Also since his legal trouble he has not been able to pay his part of the rent. I have told him that he has to leave and he said he would leave tommorow and then tomorrow leads to another tommorrow and so on. How can I legally go about making this individual leave in the state of Illinois?


Asked on 12/03/13, 4:43 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Joseph Brabender Brabender & Chiang LLC

You have created a landlord-tenant relationship where you are the landlord and the sub-leaser is the tenant. To remove the sub-leaser, you will have to file an eviction action in court after serving him with a proper notice for failure to pay rent. You are not entitled to self-help (such as changing the locks). Self-help is illegal in Illinois.

If you are in Chicago, you have many more concerns as the RLTO highly regulates landlord-tenant relationships and most amateur landlords violate it in many ways.

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Answered on 12/03/13, 4:48 pm


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