Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New Hampshire
Lease contract problems
I recently recieved a summons for the district court of New Hampshire informing me that I was being sued. The lawsuit was filed by an apartment office where I used to live. At the time I lived there I worked on a political campaign who later went defunct and stopped paying the rent. The lease was supposed to be in the political campaign's name, but somehow I ended up signing it too.
I just noticed on the lease however that at the top of the lease it says ''The lease made on Febuary 27, 204 by and between Cheney East Corp (herinafter ''Lessor''); a New Hampshire Corporation with a principal place of buisness of 76 Exeter Street, Newmarket New Hampshire and:
Cohen for New Hampshire''
I am not listed at the top of the lease nor anywhere in print on the lease. The only place I am on the lease is the signature page under tenant signatures.
The way I read it the campaign is finacially responsible and not myself. The signature I made would have been as a reprsenative of the campaign (The campaign manager also signed it). I'm not a lawyer though, so I don't know if my signature makes me legally responsible as well.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Lease contract problems
If your signature was in a representative capacity, you are not liable. However, if there is a dispute you will have to defend. Call the lawyer and ask why you a personally named, when the campaign made the lease. I assume the campaign has no assets, so the apartment is looking for any and everyone who has possible liability. If you do not file an answer, denying your liability, the apartment will get a default judgment against you.
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