If anyone has any advice or suggestions please help me--it will be much appreciated!!
I was on the lease for a loft in Brooklyn and the lease expired in September. My roommates were going to resign the lease but they slacked and so did the landlords so after I moved out--they stayed without any lease being resigned.
Now there is a problem in the apartment with a disagreement between roommates, a police report has been made, property has been damaged and threats have been made. The aggressor refuses to move out until Dec 1st and the other tenants refuse to live there while he is still living there. They called the landlord to get help from them.
Now the landlord is saying that because I did not declare the place vacant and no one resigned a new lease--that I am fully responsible for the roommates and if they have to evict this guy it will be through me. So I will be evicted and brought to court.
Obviously I do not want this to happen.
What are my options? Am I liable for the place? Do my responsibilities run past the date of the lease because I did not declare the place vacant?
If anyone has any advice at all--please tell me what I can do.
Thank you