I was recently and occupant in a place that I moved out of. I live with one other occupant and a tenant and we all paid the land lord.
Now on the actual lease, I am an occupant and it says the tenant has the following obligations:
(i) pay the cost off utility services at the Premises which are billed directly to the Tenant and not included as part of the rentals, including, but not limited to, water, electric, telephone, and gas services.
The bills for the place are in my name and we were all suppose to pay them equally. Over time the tenant did not have money to pay the bills and missed quite a few months. He said he would pay me back and never did. So eventually I decided to move out because I couldn’t pay all the bills(including his part) + rent anymore. The other occupant owes me money too.
Now he wants to sue me for the rest of the lease, based on what he claims a verbal agreement, for $2000 in the state of NC.
So in this case, can I claim constructive eviction in the form that the tenant made the place unsuitable for me to live in? In addition, he had illegal occupants in his dwelling where we lived.
The Landlord is not sueing me, only him.
And illegal occupants are people who lived there but were not permitted occupants on the lease.
The reason why he did not have the bills in his name is because his credit was bad from not paying his bills on time before.
He owes me around $400 in bills that were suppose to be paid by him.
I do have documentation of all bills too.
I do have documentation of all bills too.