So this morning my girlfriend got a call from her former landlord that she will not be getting her security deposit returned to her and she will also be invoiced for damages done to her former apartment. Apparently, the landlord doesn't have the contact information of the gentleman that she was rooming with, so they are pitting all the charges on her.
She was subletting her apartment from a graduated student near a college in Pittsburgh, PA. She was sharing the space with a young man who was also subletting the apartment from a graduated student. I was over the apartment several times over the course of 4 months that she lived there and seldom saw this roommate, but would hear him being loud and obnoxious at times. At one point, he put a hole in his door as well as broke his screen to his window. We only knew of these damages (which are also relatively inexpensive) because we could see them.
This morning she got the phone call from her former landlord as well as received several pictures of an entire wall inside of his room that was smashed. He left a lot of his stuff in the apartment and was late to move out as well. There was his food left in the refrigerator as well as dirty dishes and garbage in the kitchen.
When we left, we wrote several notes telling him that we cleaned her portion of the apartment as well as some stuff that was left from the former inhabitants. She took pictures of all of these notes that she laid through the apartment.
What action should we take to make sure that she doesn't need to pay the invoice for damage done to the apartment. Getting the security deposit back isn't of the most importance at this point, but she fears that she will be on the hook for several thousand dollars of damage done. We have the roommates full name, as well as knowing his last two places of employment. We don't know if he still works at either place right now, but thats about all that we know. She also has his phone number (if it is still the same). I don't want to do anything now that could limit our future options.
Submitted August 26, 2016 at 11:29PM by SavageGardner http://ift.tt/2bTmVbI legaladvice
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