Ohio
Please help me. I signed a 1-year lease with a girl in August. I was giving her my rent money and she was writing one check to the landlord. She only paid 1 of 3 months and has now moved out. We spoke and she assured me that the money would be paid and she would continue to pay her part until we found someone else. She has not paid anything, I have paid my part of our rent for the past 2 months. Our landlord called me, my roommate changed her phone number w/o notifying anyone, and told me we can 1. move out and continue to pay rent until it is rerented or 2. be evicted. I'm not too worried because I have documentation of all the money I gave her, the utility payments for which she still owes me money, and the payments I have made to the landlord. I think that it would be better at this point to be evicted because I'm afraid that the amount we owe will continue to grow and we will be liable for even more. Do I need to get a lawyer and is there a way to keep this off my credit report considering I did not defult on my rent payments?
Thank you for your advice.
Please help me. I signed a 1-year lease with a girl in August. I was giving her my rent money and she was writing one check to the landlord. She only paid 1 of 3 months and has now moved out. We spoke and she assured me that the money would be paid and she would continue to pay her part until we found someone else. She has not paid anything, I have paid my part of our rent for the past 2 months. Our landlord called me, my roommate changed her phone number w/o notifying anyone, and told me we can 1. move out and continue to pay rent until it is rerented or 2. be evicted. I'm not too worried because I have documentation of all the money I gave her, the utility payments for which she still owes me money, and the payments I have made to the landlord. I think that it would be better at this point to be evicted because I'm afraid that the amount we owe will continue to grow and we will be liable for even more. Do I need to get a lawyer and is there a way to keep this off my credit report considering I did not defult on my rent payments?
Thank you for your advice.