Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Indiana

moving out without a lease

There were four of us renting a house for a year. Three signed the lease last may (2006) but the other one was studying abroad and so the lease was never signed on her part. We paid her share of summer rent and she did pay that back in August, this past month (april 2007) she decided to move out --stating ''unhappiness''--and refuses to pay May's rent. She's not on the lease but we did have verbal and email documentation that she planned to live here until the end of the lease.

What can we do to have her pay her share of the rent? Wouldn't a verbal and semi-written out agreement be good enough?


Asked on 5/05/07, 11:14 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
David Anderson Anderson Business Law LLC

Re: moving out without a lease

YOU may have an action (lawsuit) against her, but NOT the LL (without her signature on the lease).

Your damages are her unpaid portion of rent. The written lease documents total rent, and your verbal agreement confirmed by the emails are evidence re; her agreement.

How much is at stake.

I have 25 years experience as a LL and could write a strongly worded Demand Letter on your behalf.

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Answered on 5/05/07, 2:15 pm


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