I am a college student and was living in my own house with my own lease. My boyfriend was living with two guys when one of them just up and left one day and broke the lease with their landlord. The landlord is now trying to get to tenant who left for the money he owes. However when that guy left my boyfriend wrecked his car and had no way to get to work or school so I have been staying there to drive him to work and school, because my house is 30 minutes away. The tenant who broke the lease said he was going to sue me because I was living there and so I should have to pay the rent. But I was under no lease and I have my own house with a lease. I did not pay rent at my boyfriends house, I was only there to help him. Am I liable? The tenant is very serious about suing me but does he have a case, technically I am just staying there I don't have a room or have any part of the rent. No one can even prove that I have been staying here. What do I do??

What do I do???Hello d:

You can't stop him from suing you. You CAN stop him from winning, however, by going to court and telling the judge what you told us here.

Ain't no big deal. In fact, you haven't lived until you've been sued.

excon

... The tenant who broke the lease said he was going to sue me ... The tenant is very serious about suing me ...

What Excon said. :)

This is an empty threat. Very common.

And if he were to sue you the judge would laugh at him.

By the way, the reason he doesn't have a case is that he has no standing. The landlord could perhaps make a case that you are a subtenant of your boyfriend, but the ex co-tenant wouldn't have the right to collect rent supposedly owed by you to your boyfriend.

Tell him to go head and sue you but to be prepared to be sued by you for treble damages.