Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Ohio
Taking a Co-Lessee off of a Rental Lease
I recently signed a one year rental lease with a friend. We are both on the lease and moved into the house together. She is upset because I am asking her to clean up after herself and not come home partying and waking me up when I have to get up early. Every time we've had words, she says she doesn't want to live with me any more and threatens to call the landlord and take me off of the lease.
She said she has talked with an attorney who told her she can take me off the lease.
Now, I don't think this is true, because we are equal co-lessees on the rental agreement.
Is there some loophole to this? Is there any way she can have me ''taken'' off the lease?
Thank you.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Taking a Co-Lessee off of a Rental Lease
It is not up to your roommate whether or not to take you off the lease, it's up to the landlord. Even then, you have a contract with the landlord, and he/she cannot end the lease with you without your consent, unless there has been a violation of the lease, in which case he would have to move to evict you. The long and short of it is that your roommate is wrong.
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