If I am not on the lease, can I still get charged for living there?
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If I am not on the lease, can I still get charged for living there?
I got permission from the tenants that I could live at theirresidence for a couple of months. They have a per semester lease with 3 people living there and a lump sum of $4000 to pay. With me living there I paid $1000 as though I was on the lease and utilities during my stay. The landlord found out I was living there and said he was going to start charging me monthly for the rest of my stay. I have lived there for 2 months and only plan to live there 2 more months. Can I still be charged even though he knows I helped the other tenants pay?
Asked on November 1, 2011 under Real Estate Law, Pennsylvania
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
The landord for the unit you are occupying cannot contractually charge you rent because he has no written lease agreement with you. In essence you are subleasing the premises from his tenants.
Whether or not the tenants can sublease to you is unknown in that to determine this one would have to carefully read the written lease agreement between them and your landlord in that its terms and conditions control the obligations owed to them by the landlord and vice versa in the absence of conflicting state law.
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