My Sister's Future Roommate Bailed On Her A Week Before Moving And Is Causing A Lot Of Problem She Does Not Know How To Handle.

Location: Quebec, Canada

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I'm doing this post for my sister, sonce she's struggling to handle the situation all by herself.

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My sister was originally supposed to move into her first appartment next week with a friend of hers (they have been friends for years at this point).

Both were doing so to escape pretty abusive homelife with their families.

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They spent several months to find the right appartment, made a good impression to convince the landlord to rent it to to them, and everything was going swimmingly.

But not too long ago her friend finally told his parents, who are very very religious easter-europeans who are, from what i gathered, insane and restrictive. They did not take it well and have been paranoingly pushing him to change everything on the lease because they don't agree with it, alongside badmouthing my sister the whole way.

When some stuff wasn't able to be changed with the landlord they pressured her to sign a colocation convention to their terms. Most of this was also done with the landlord mostly behind her back in moments she couldn't really intervene.

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And now that everything is signed and seemed tk be good, now today her friend told her "actually he doesn't wanna move in anymore", when they're meeting the landlord to receive the keys tomorrow.

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So now she's stuck with either moving in alone and trying to find a new roommate soon, or trying to break the lease (wich is starting in july).

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Thing is, her friend has been acting weird, because even if he doesn't want to move in, he still wants to come and get his keys tomorrow because he's on the lease so he legally can have them, and he says it's because he wants to find her a new roommate and wants them to make visits and shit, but that just feels really weird to me and her and looks almost shady? (For context he never once ever felt this shady of weird before, they been friends for years and its pretty damn new, even to me for the few times i've met the guy)

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So what we're asking what can she do. Either if she take the appartment, if she can break the lease, what her options even are? And staying where she is now is tecjnically an option but for her well being it's something i'm very worried about.

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I hope this is relevant enough to post here, we dont really know where to go right now for help, if you ever need more details feel free to ask, i wasn't sure how much details to share here