What can I do if my roommate took off?

What can I do if my roommate took off?

I want to sue someone. He was my roommate in an apartment; we had a lease in both of our names which doesn’t ed for another 6 months. He just moved out of state without paying his half of the rent. I talked to the leasing office and they told me that that there is no roommate policy; we ere both going to be sued if they were not paid. That would harm our credit and I’d be kicked out of the apartment. I’m a foreign student here and I didn’t want any problems with the courts or immigration, so I had to pay the full rent and that kind of crashed my budget. He is an F1 student too.

Asked on June 25, 2012 under Real Estate Law, California

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