I went through the same thing last year, and it was hell. It sucked because my other roommate and I couldn't cover his portion of the lease, so we had weekly calls from the property manager and our cable was cut off (it was in his name). The worst part was that his dad is a hotshot businessman in Atlanta and probably makes a month's rent in an hour. However, he didn't pay up for his son to "teach him a lesson," which, of course, he never learned because his dad had to bail him out at the end of the lease because we were threatening to take him to court.