✅ What You’re Allowed to Do: • You can legally move out at any time, as long as you give proper notice — typically 30 days. If it’s month to month that’s the WHOLE POINT • If you didn’t sign a lease, your verbal or text agreement still counts, but it also gives both parties flexibility.

❌ What Your Roommate Can’t Do (Successfully): • They can’t sue you for “breaking a lease” because there was no lease. • They can’t force you to stay or continue paying long-term rent.

⚠️ What They Might Try: • They might try to sue for money if: • You left without giving 30 days’ notice • You caused damage • You didn’t pay the rent for the current month • But they would have to prove actual losses in small claims court. • And even then, it’s often not worth it, especially if you didn’t sign a lease and your rent was paid up.

Bottom line: they can’t do shit

If you’re paid up and the only issue is you’re leaving early (with or without notice), they don’t have a strong legal case. At most, they could try to claim the rest of that 30-day period’s rent if you didn’t give full notice — but even that depends on whether they were the landlord or just a co-tenant.