Okay, so my so called "best friend" decided to sign herself to our lease. We moved in two months ago while my husband was in basic training. I told her that she did not need to be part of the actual lease, and that the three of us (me, my husband, and her) could just have a verbal one, so she could move out when he returned home, if she did not choose to pay her part of the bills any longer. She insisted that she was going to do her part to help pay bills, and do her part to keep the apartment clean. ( I agreed to this seeing as we were good friends at the time and we had never had problems before, and also I felt bad because she was not living in a good environment prior.) Well, the first few weeks were okay, she helped pay for food and whatever else we needed. We got the electricity turned on with money (in her name) my husband wired to me and she agreed to pay him back for it when he returned home. Then it started one night and went downhill from there, she asked me if she could borrow my car (she doesn't have one) to meet a guy at some bar. I agreed because she thew a temper tantrum more or less and I did not want to deal with it any longer. She stayed out all night without giving me a call, (seeing as she had my car out all night). A few days later she pulled the same thing and, of course me being the nice person let her take it off again to see the same guy from the bar night. This time I set some guidelines. I asked her to come back with it at a decent time and to not bring him in our apartment. She agreed to this without a problem. She did come home at a decent time, but she brought him inside with her. She totally disrespected my wishes and was a complete jerk despite the fact I let her use my car. Not to mention the fact that they brought in beer and we are both 19 and underage. I found out the next morning as I was talking to her sister that she did not even have her license, just a Florida identification card with her name on it. I was furious. I never thought I would literally have to check her license before she drove my car. This continued more or less for about another month (and needless to say she did not drive my car.) My husband finally returned home and got mad at me for letting her put her name on the lease, but realized there was nothing we could do now. She did tried to be nice at first and get along with the both of us, (she took off for two weeks with some co workers and was hardly there) then as it came time for the bills to be paid, and when she got home he asked her where her share of the money was for the bills. The agreement was that she was to pay for electricity, water, food, cable, internet and the washer and dryer rental. When it is totaled together it is only around 300, which is a steal for her considering our rent is 695. She made some lame excuse about how she did not have her check yet and it would be a little while. After begging and pleading my husband finally received the 200 she owed him for getting the electricity turned on. A few days later she finally coughed up the 57 and 100 for cable and electricity, which was already past due by the way. (by the way she lied about paying the bills so we made her give us to money to pay them) ( The cable is in my husband's name, so we did not want anything against his credit, not that it matters to her since she did not give us the money for it.) So that was the only time we have received any amount of money for any bills. She would always begs us for rides to work, she works about 15 minutes away from our apartment. I told her I did not have the gas money to keep taking her, she has only paid me for gas two,or three times since we have moved into the apartment. I cannot afford to transport her to work when she does not want to pay for gas. ( I am in college full time and my husband is doing good supporting the two of us) So after a while I would tell her no, my husband told her to take the bus, seeing as there is a bus stop outside of our apartment complex and it runs by her work. Every time that suggestion was made she would laugh about it like she was too good to ride it. She eventually started calling co workers and getting them to give her rides, this started happening ever since one day she begged us for a ride after we said no she hid in her room and missed work entirely. That led into a whole different argument that turned into a screaming math because I apparently was acting like I was the one who was too good for anything. I fail to see how this is true seeing as she was starting to live off my husband and I for free. She got paid then came home the next day, she works at a minimum wage job and told me out of her 400 and something dollar check she only had 70 left to last her two weeks. It was like she knew we were going to cover her for the bills so she was going to let it happen. She was giving out money to people she was staying with and she needed to buy a new phone cause her ex boyfriend took her off his. It has gotten to the point where my husband and I have to have a keyed entry to our bedroom door, and take the non frozen food and put it in our closet, seeing as before she would just help herself to whatever she wanted out of my bedroom. This is when we suggested she remove herself from the lease and move in with the people she was giving money to. We talked more about it and she said she would rather us split everything in half. Which was dumb of her to say seeing as she would be paying more but whatever. We would leave and come back with half of our kitchen missing. Meaning we would buy food and she would consume it without permission. It would have been one thing to ask but she doesn't know how to. Just when I thought it couldn't get worse she started breeding nasty bugs in her bedroom (don't get me wrong she was always a slob from the beginning, but she was keeping it in her room so as long as she kept the door shut it didn't bother me, apart from I always had to do her dishes. It started getting out of hand more than we could take so my husband and I went to talk to the leasing office. They saw her room and we told them we wanted her to move out. They suggested that we change the locks. They also gave us a fake eviction notice to give to her for unlivable living conditions, in her bedroom. We waited to see if things would change, but the didn't. She lost her job, lied about it, had me take her to her work last week and pretend to get her check, then she lied and said they mailed it to her sisters since she did not change her address. So, last night I posted a 3 day eviction notice on the front door after she left, since I am the primary lease and singee and head of household. Her friend came and got her, from our apartment. My husband changed the locks on the door after (her friend shows up unexpectedly, since my roommate does not have a phone anymore and walks in without knocking if the door is unlocked) this girl is absolutely annoying, loud and always has to be in everyone's business but her own has been trying to put her two sense in for a while now came over with my roommate and found out the door was locked, we called the cops and all that he did was let her in to get her stuff. My roommate lies, steals (I've found articles of my clothing in her room when I walked by her room and saw them on the ground), eats all of our food and does not pay a freaking cent since she is on the lease I am told there is nothing we can do. Is there another option besides getting a lawyer? Sorry that was so long, there is so much more to it than that but this is the shortest I can possibly make it. I don't know what to do anymore.

Hello n:

If you want me to read it, you're going to have to use a few paragraphs... And, I'm not so much interested in the story. The legal facts will be enough.

excon

PS> So, even though I didn't read it, if she's on the lease, you CAN'T evict her. Only your landlord can, and he can only evict ALL of you.