My question involves landlord-tenant law in the State of: California
Hi, i'm not sure if this is the correct place for this post so I apologize in advance. So my roommate (whom is also my cousin) and I ended our lease as of 10/26/2014. I did a transfer in the same complex and moved into a 1 bedroom. Now the apartment management decided to put the deposit towards the unit that I moved into from the unit that my roommate and I lived. He's pretty ticked off about it and has threaten to sue me. My question is am I legally responsible to pay him his half of the security deposit? Or is his beef with the management? It's only for $200 bucks and I've told him multiple times I would pay him just to get him off my back but due to financial stress at present this is taking me a while. But he doesn't seem to care.
Also one more thing. This is kinda laughable but he is under the impression that rent is deductable on your taxes and has also threaten to sue me if I dont sign receipts for the rent payments. The thing is he doesn't like banks so he keeps his money in a sock drawer or something. We had a verbal agreement to split bills down the middle including the rent, so he would pay me cash for everything and I would pay the bills and rent in my name. He says that since I wrote the check for the rent he does not get credit for paying his half. Is this crazy or what? He's worried that when I do my taxes im going to write off his half of the rent. Is he correct that you can take the receipts for renting an apartment and write them off on your taxes?
I'm sorry for having such strange questions but I wanted to get an expert opinion on this. Thank you for time.
Hi, i'm not sure if this is the correct place for this post so I apologize in advance. So my roommate (whom is also my cousin) and I ended our lease as of 10/26/2014. I did a transfer in the same complex and moved into a 1 bedroom. Now the apartment management decided to put the deposit towards the unit that I moved into from the unit that my roommate and I lived. He's pretty ticked off about it and has threaten to sue me. My question is am I legally responsible to pay him his half of the security deposit? Or is his beef with the management? It's only for $200 bucks and I've told him multiple times I would pay him just to get him off my back but due to financial stress at present this is taking me a while. But he doesn't seem to care.
Also one more thing. This is kinda laughable but he is under the impression that rent is deductable on your taxes and has also threaten to sue me if I dont sign receipts for the rent payments. The thing is he doesn't like banks so he keeps his money in a sock drawer or something. We had a verbal agreement to split bills down the middle including the rent, so he would pay me cash for everything and I would pay the bills and rent in my name. He says that since I wrote the check for the rent he does not get credit for paying his half. Is this crazy or what? He's worried that when I do my taxes im going to write off his half of the rent. Is he correct that you can take the receipts for renting an apartment and write them off on your taxes?
I'm sorry for having such strange questions but I wanted to get an expert opinion on this. Thank you for time.
Moving Out: Roommate Wants to Sue Me for His Half of Deposit and More
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