[nj] My Roommate Keeps Threatening To "have Me Removed" From The House. We're Both On The Same Lease. Can He Actually Do Anything?
Location: Jersey City, NJ.
Five of us share a house, all on one lease, $450 each. I pay on time every month.
One roommate collects everyone's rent and passes it to the landlord. His family knows the landlord personally, and he acts like that makes him the boss. He makes up house rules, posts warnings in our group chat, and tells people he can get anyone replaced whenever he wants.
While I was overseas for a family medical emergency, he messaged demanding I pay him a security deposit. My deposit is already with the landlord. Now he's saying things like "stay if you want to stay" and that he'll put my stuff outside.
Four roommates before me left after the same treatment from him.
I have screenshots of all of it and three other roommates who'd back me up.
My question: does a roommate on the same lease have any actual power here, or is this all talk? And is it worth sending him a formal letter telling him to stop, or does that just make things worse?
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