First thanks for all your advice and support through the drama that is dealing with our deadbeat roommate. Yup, that’s him above. If you see him in the DC area (that’s where he went) and he wants to be your roommate, run screaming in the opposite direction. (That wasn’t very nice of me)
So we decided not to take him to small claims court. We know that we would win, but we also know that the deadbeat would not show… ever. And even if he did show, he would not pay. And small claims courts doesn’t enforce its ruling, so it wouldn’t be worth all the hassle.
Our next option is to send collections after him. I haven’t figured out how to do this yet, but it might not be worth is as he already has 8 accounts in collections. So it’s almost like, what’s one more. (Yeah, he’s a super deadbeat.)
We haven’t seen or heard from the deadbeat since. One of us would have probably ended up in jail if that had happened, so that’s a relief.
We ended up paying deadbeat’s rent but luckily we quickly found a 3rd roommate to help pay the rest of July’s rent. He seems really cool.
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beware folks!