This may sound sneaky and underhanded but it is a reality that I needed to do. This is in California and have lived here for many years.

I am going to be evicted soon because I can no longer pay the rent. (They increased it by 400 dollars from 1130 to 1530 dollars). I am broke at the moment but if I allow the eviction to go through, I don't have to pay the rent for the couple of months it takes to get evicted. The question is, I am not on the lease. My Mother was on it but she has since died and the was up a couple of months ago. Will it this eviction show up on MY credit reports?

I know this isn't right, but it's the only way I can save enough money to move and get another place (In another state). I am disabled and on a very fixed income.

I don't think it would show up on your credit report as long as you're not on the lease, but your landlord could go to court and try to get a judgment on you for back rent, since you were the responsible party, and that definitely would.

Since she died, her lease actually ended upon her death ( sorry about her death) so that made you either a tenant or a trespassor
So you are either on a month to month rental with them, or you are there illegall.

Hello C:

Even if it technically SHOULDN'T go on your credit report, it's going to. Because the apartment building is going to come after YOU - not your mother, of course. And it will be YOUR credit that's affected. I'm assuming that they know your name and have a few particulars about you.

excon

In most cases, when the leaseholder dies, any relatives living with them, will become the defacto leaseholder. But that's really not important. An eviction is processed against the OCCUPANT, not the leaseholder. Your name will be on the summons and the eviction order.