My roommate hasn’t paid her share of the rent since 3 months, what do I do?
I’ve have been staying at this apartment since 8 months now. I have 2 roommates and one of them is the primary leaseholder and I am the secondary leaseholder, the other roommate is listed as an occupant on the lease. I had joined this lease way after the lease had started so I wasn’t aware that my roommate had problems paying the rent. The leaseholders (me and my roommate who is the primary on this lease) have paid our rent on time every month and it was only the other one who didn’t pay. It started with smaller amounts and I brushed it off but since March it started becoming bigger amounts and it has racked upto 2k now. Our lease is ending this month and we have to vacate the apartment. My roommate and I have decided we are moving out since we have already paid our share but we had gotten a ‘notice to evict’ for the last month. I took this notice to the leasing office and I told them that me and my roommate had already paid our share so why did we get this notice. The leasing agent told me not to worry about it and that we did not have to appear in court because we paid our share and she was going to let the property manager know about this. We spoke to that roommate yesterday and she said she wasn’t able to pay that part of the rent and that she had exhausted all her options and she was sorry to put us in this situation. I told her that the apology doesn’t mean anything because we have a charge of 2000 hanging over our head that wasn’t even our share to begin with.
Could someone suggest what I can do for this? I don’t want anything like this on my record because it’s not money I owe.