Legal advice about leasing and subleasing?

I'm moving out of a house that my roommates and I have been renting for over a year now. Our lease actually ran out a long time ago, but the landlord never said anything and we never said anything to him, so we've just been paying rent and there hasn't been an issue.





Now that I'm moving out, theres a new guy that's trying to move in and tonight my roommates made him sign a lease that they made up themselves.





Is this not illigal? They have no authority over the house, they're not under a lease and they made up a leasing document that I'm pretty sure they're not going to get noterized. Legal advice about leasing and subleasing?
Usually in a lease it will say what will happen if a lease runs out and the tenants don't move out. In general it would go to a month-to-month rental agreement.


Your landlord should be contacted to make a new rental agreement with the new parties or a new lease. Your landlord is the one that needs to accept the new person and the terms and I think making a new lease is not going to impress him/ her. Unless of course you have a sub-lease agreement in the original which states that the current tenants can sub-lease to anyone any time they wish, but then the landlord still should be notified of the new tenant. In any case it would be beneficial for everyone if the landlord is involved. Good luck!