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How a shared tenancy ends
Expiry, notice, surrender, removal — four different mechanisms with different consequences, and one of them can be triggered by a single housemate.
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Is a roommate agreement binding
Usually yes, between the people who signed it — and usually not against the landlord. Those two answers are what the question is really asking.
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Whose name is on the lease
Being party to a tenancy and living in the property are different things. The gap between them explains most of what happens when a houseshare changes.
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Joint and several liability
Four names on one tenancy usually means each person can be pursued for the whole rent, not a quarter of it. The mechanism, and what follows from it.
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Tenant, subtenant, lodger
Three positions with different consequences — and in most systems the label in the document does not settle which one you are. The facts of occupation do.