I suspect that my roommate is charging me and my other roommate way more than 1/3 the rent (he makes us write our rent checks to him and he writes one to the landlord).
We were not asked to sign a lease (tennant at will) and the landlord is his buddy so if I asked him not only would it get back to him but the landlord would probably lie to me. The roommate seemed like a good guy when I took the place and I thought it was a comparable rent to others in the area (I was wrong about that too), but I've learned about a lot of other stuff he's lied about and my rent amount seems like a strange number (when you triple it it isn't an amount that you'd ever guess was a rent amount).
I wondered if there was any place that keeps records of the rent amount of apartments in the area.
Oh, and I'm sure your first response is to say just move somewhere else, but I won't be able to afford a deposit+first again until January.
I live in Massachusetts. Thanks.