You will share joint and several liability to the lease. Which means even if they don't pay their portion of rent, guess who has to pay the landlord.
Also, being the third wheel in a couple situation is bad news. You are subject to the ups and downs of their relationships. When its going good, you will always be voted out because they will vote as a unit. When they are on the rocks, you deal with the fighting, negativity, and problems if one wants to move.
Smart of you to realize this now.
Follow your instincts. A lease is a binding contract between party A (the landlord) and party B (you and your roomies). Each member of party B is 100% responsible for rent and damages to the rental caused by any of your guests for the duration of the lease.
I seems like neither one of these two can be trusted to be responsible for the rent and any potential damages. Do not rent with them.
Pay a little more and get an efficiency or a one-bedroom just for yourself. At least you will know that no one is going to bail out on you, and that you have enough money to pay your rent each month.
Good luck
Go with your guts feeling, i.e. don't rent a place with them. Get a larger or bigger place but sharing with unpleasant company and someone hardly ever works is insane.
No way.
I need to move soon, so i'm looking for a place to live, and so are 2 of me friends. They're saying that us 3 should all move in together, and that way with our combined rent we can get a 2 or 3 bedroom house or townhouse.
I don't really want to rely on these 2, cause one of them hardly ever works, and always borrows money, and the other is his girlfriend, and they fight all the time, I don't want to move in and hear them fighting all the time too.
I worry that if I end up starting to rent, and they end up either not having their money on time, or getting in a stupid fight where they split up, it's going to effect me and my living plans
