Yet there is , the US during the 1950 ' s and 1960 ' s promised it would eventually defeat unemployment in its rhetoric against the USSR . <| sep |> What the actual fuck was that <| sep |> Hello PF , I moved out of the country almost 5 years ago and I was living with a roommate at the time . He found a new roommate to replace me so I went to the leasing office to let them know . The leasing office said if I broke the lease I ' d have to pay a large fee and it would be better to let it run out in 2 months and then he could sign a lease with his new roommate , stupid 22 year old me believed this and went merrily on my way . Flash forward almost 5 years now and I ' m trying to rent an apartment so my 3 month old daughter and I aren ' t homeless when I move for a new job . On the rental report came back TONS of civil actions against me for failure to pay rent and we got denied . I contacted the apartment complex and they said when the lease ran out he switched it to a month to month and has been keeping me on the lease since then . They gave me a form to fill out to get off the lease in August which I filled out and sent in . Today I applied again and found out that they haven ' t taken me off the lease and according to them he has to consent for me to get off the lease . Basically , do I have any recourse so we don ' t end up homeless ? We are set to move down on the 1 st of December . It doesn ' t seem right that he can continue using my name on the lease every month and I can ' t do anything about it . I ' m at wits end here , I haven ' t even stepped foot in Maryland for almost 5 years and every office is closed for the holidays . I have a meeting set up with a lawyer on Friday but legal proceedings take notoriously long . I just want to get this lease out of my name and my rental record cleared .