<prompt> Human: So, I need some help and advice. To start off Im a graduating college student and have a job lined up to start May 23rd. Ill be making about 60k a year. The thing that I am having problems with is that my roommates suck at paying bills and we have racked up a bunch of debt in late fees to my landlord. We just got a letter for demand for possession nonpayment of rent. This states that we must pay the owed money by Monday. Now, the story begins last summer when my roommate sublet his room to some horrible horrible people. These people stayed up till 5 am screaming and fighting almost every night of the week. Once they left there was a big hookah burn in the carpet. This led to the landlord replacing the carpet. It took the guy two weeks while we were living there to get the job fully done. We didnt have access to our kitchen because all of the furniture was in the way while he replaced the carpet. The subleasers did not pay a dime for the damage they had done so it was up to me and my roommates to cover these charges. I refused to pay since it was not my responsibility and I did not sublet. Now that this leasing agreement is coming to an end i am seeing the repercussion on this. Every month that we did not have a zero balance on the account we were charged 50. This has led to 450 in late charges. What the hell am I going to do? I have enough money to pay my months rent but thats all. In total I owe 400 for something I did not do and have no control over. Is there anything that the landlord is doing wrong? Or does this all fall back on me and my roommate? Any suggestions on what to do? Please please please. Anything would help at this point. Obviously there is a lot missing from my story but this covers the most of it. My roommate sublet to horrible people now I have to pay for damages they have done! Plus all of the associated late fees that total more than the original money owed! EDIT:Thanks for all of the advice so far. I realize that most of this is my fault for dragging this out so long. Some more information on my current roommates:Z is the head of household, he paid off his debts to the landlord long ago. He is claiming he owes nothing in late fees because of this. C is the one who actually signed the sub-leasers into the lease and is the one who should be fully responsible for ALL of the money owed.P is a new roommate and has been good with payments and shouldnt owe anything.Now, I do not wish to take this to court but it may be the best option. Now I am wondering if since all of our names are on the leasing agreement, and C signed the sub-leasers with the landlord. Did I have to agree to letting them sublet? I disagreed with the subletting in the first place but since it was not my room, it was not my choice. I did not sign anything agreeing to subletting. Does this affect the situation at all? Being that the lease was signed by all four of us, shouldnt all four of us have to agree to the sub-leasers? The record of payment that the landlord keeps is also very very hard to read. Payments made are miss-named and are only ordered by the payment date. They use a very old DOS program to keep records. It is hard to interpret who exactly owes what and who has actually paid what. Also, should late fees only account on late rent, not an amount owed on the account?After talking to my parents about loaning me some money to get rid of this bad mistake, they agreed to borrow the amount that I owe according to my roommates plus the remaining two months rent to get my name off of the lease. My fellow redditors, help me with this! What is my best option?  <response>: Are you all on the same lease? If so you are all individually responsible for the entire rent amount. You are also responsible for any damage regardless of whether or not you personally caused it. your landlord isnt screwing you over. You are screwing your landlord by not abiding by the contract you signed and paying rent on time.Does your lease say you can sublet? If the lease says youre not allowed to sublet then your roommate could get you all evicted. 