My sister . She was abusive towards me my entire life , and always resented me because of a perceived favoritism from our mother . My sister has a whole family she can be a part of , while I was a one night stand child . Mom was literally all I had . And my entire life my sister would get into insane arguments with her because she didn ' t hit me . So she took it upon herself to do it . She is an awful person in a million different ways , and I tried for a long time to be her friend . Then I thought if we weren ' t related , would I give a fuck about her ? The answer was no . <| sep |> That will depend on how the lease is written , but probably not because any assignment of the lease would likely require each tenant to agree in writing and you ' re not speaking to this guy . The easiest way around this is to speak with the landlord , pay the rent late one month with his consent , which will likely allow the landlord to terminate the lease , and then resign a new lease with the new roomate .