I live DT on a 2 bedroom apartment with a roomate. My roomate gave notice on sept 25th to leave on end of October. (She didn’t gave me a heads up)

Because I was never on the lease (with landlords knowledge) the rent increased $100 automatically and I had 5 days to complete new lease agreement and find a roomate. I couldn’t find a suitable roomate that quickly. And I had a trip planned for 3 weeks on Oct 9th.

I found a suitable roomate on Oct 5th, showed him the place, and he paid rent and damage deposit. Since I was the lease owner/responsible I didn’t thought he needed to sign the lease. I did let me landlord know and offer him to meet the new tenant at least twice before I left but never heard back from him.

Here is my first mistake. Becase new roomate paid in advance he wanted a receipt, I wrote a lease agreement, didn’t thought much of it.

On Oct 16th the roomate that was leaving went to clean up and collect damage deposit. She was supossed to hand the keys to new roomate and get paid for half october rent from New roomate as they both coordinated so that he could move in early. But rhe landlord took keys from her. Saying he jeeded them for the damage deposit. After that he did not want to give them to the new roomate. Because he wasn’t on the lease.

Roomate sent a copy of the lease agreement i wrote. Landlord got upset, all this while I’m in Mexico. There was a lot of back and forth over long distance calls so that I could try sort things out. Not have to pay for full rent on a 2 bdr apartment. But nothing panned out

The landlord didn’t provide any option other than me mailing my keys (he said he was legally bind and apologized) my new roomate got frustrated and asked for a refund. Landlord didn’t like he didn’t have a job (even though he had savings and personal business)

Landlord offered to show the place to people if I gave his number. I put up an ad again. Found another suitable candidate.

Gave him the landlords phone but my landlord kept avoiding him, saying no. He was upset

Guy looks respectable, has steady job, age 35.

I cut my trip short I’m at the airport. The whole thing is confusing to me and its been really stressful.

I’m gonna talk to my landlord but need more information.

1. Why my ex roomate was ok having a roomate without a lease and I am not?

2. My writting a lease agreement I got told it could be grounds for eviction. Can it they still use that even though that roomate didn’t stay? I would think it gets cancelled

3. If my landlord was just being a jerk, do I have any recourse/support? He has said to me “I decide who stays, I look at them and if they look like a drug dealer I don’t have to let them in”

4. There is a claise on my tenancy agreement. What does this mean exactly: 17. ASSIGN OR SUBLET. The Tenant may assign or sublet the rental unit to another person with the written consent of the Landlord. If this tenancy agreement is for a fixed length of 6 months or more, the Landlord must not unreasonably withhold consent. Under an assignment a new Tenant must assume all of the rights and obligations under the existing tenancy agreement, at the same rent. The Landlord must not charge a fee or receive a benefit, directly or indirectly, for giving this consent. If a Landlord unreasonably withholds consent to assign or sublet or charges a fee, the Tenant may apply for arbitration under the Act.

5. Any other information that would be important or useful to know?

I’m extremely dumb when it comes to bureaucracy, tenancy agreements. I’m also dealing with a lot of external stress (not just this) so I’m having a uard time thinking objectively. So thanks, I appreciate any help and if you’ve read this far. The company is devon properties.