How to make a roommate agreement a legal contract?
I will be moving in with roommates very soon. At my college we had this contract call roommate agreement and I would like to make one before I move in with new roommates, so that if those roommates want to move out living me with the rent I would have a roommate agreement. my question hear is a roommate agreements a legal paper that I can take to court in case anything happen. if not how can I make it a legal contract that the court will treat equal to a lease. Can I give it to the apartment lease office so that they can also know the agreement, would they even take it, please help on how I can make that agreement a legal contract
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Very wise of you to think of this. However, I don't think it's legally binding. Your lease is basically the only contract. I doubt the lease office would take it, they don't care about any agreement the roomates have with eachother, only their own lease.
If you have an actual lease, they are bounf to the terms and they owe their share of rent. You don't NEED a roommate agreement if they are all on the lease.
Your roomates have no obligatiopn to sign such a thing anyway. Try living alone.