Hello,
My 24 yr old daughter signed a 1yr lease with a plutonic guy friend 2 months ago. Since then he has had consecutive obnotious parties, even during the week. She will come home and there will be 11 cars in the driveway at 10:30 on a week night... drinking, smoking, yelling, swearing, etc. She has been locking herself in her bedroom watching TV to try and escape it all. Not to mention the fact that no one cleans up the mess so she ends up doing it in disgust. There are signs of mice in the house due to dirtiness.
He makes enough money to afford the place by himself or get another roommate so she's not worried about that. She has talked to him on several occasions, but he is drunk most of the time and non-responsive.
We are going together tomorrow to address her landlord, which is elderly and somewhat grumpy. My daughter is extremely nervous about this confrontation. Is there a form that we can use to get the lease put just in her friends name? We are trying to be as prepared as posssible before we talk to her landlord.
Can you help??
Thanks.
Terri

Terri - I don't think you will be successful with that approach. The lease is a contract between the 2 tenants and the landlord. She cannot change that contract without the roomate's (and landlord's) agreement. If she can't negotiate as to how often her roommate has parties, perhaps she can get one of the party-goers to assume her liability in the lease and become the guy's roommate in place of her. If there is potential damage that might be done to the property (or complaining neighbors that keep calling the police), perhaps the landlord would work with her to terminate the lease and have them both move out. Unfortunately she is not in a position to "make it happen"; if she just moves out she risks a small claims suit from the landlord.