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Decade
01-19-2007, 05:33 AM
I'm not gonna use hate cause hate is a pretty strong word (or at least I believe it's meant to be), but I really, really, REALLY dislike my roommate.

I'm gonna appologize early for the rant, but I'm posting here for general advice on the matter already.

To really let you understand, I gotta start from when we first met and it first started.

First mistake I ever made, but was unavoidable at the time, is that my roommate and I actually met for the first time about 2 weeks before we got an apartment together. I know this sounds incredibly stupid to start with, but hear me out.

I graduated college in May. As any of you who have as well know, it's a very crazy time because by the end of Senior year kids still don't know where they're gonna be working, where they're going to live, when they're going to start, etc. In short, every, single, one of my friends was in this situation, and anybody who wasn't was going to be living in a different part of the country or even the WORLD.

One of my friends then told me about a friend of his who was also looking for an apartment and a roommate. Between not having anyone else to really go off of besides looking on craigslist (which I really didn't wanna do) and the insane rent that's here in Boston, I really had little to no options, especially with a job that was going to start relatively soon in May.

So, I met with the kid beforehand to get an idea. The kid actually seemed like a very nice, quiet, respectful kid (exactly what I needed). He was still going to be a senior this year (a senior) and it worried me a bit because I don't want to have parties at my apartment, but he assured me he wanted the same.

Sounds like a good deal.

Over the next two weeks, we both looked vigirously for an apartment, but only found shitholes, apartments too far away from where we both needed to be, and nothing within our rent range. When I found one where the rent was ok (at the limit of our budget anyway), the location was PERFECT (we're both 15 minutes away from school and work), and we're in the middle of the city (literally, we're in the fenway area and have a bunch of restaurants, laundry places, movie theater, and then even Kenmore Square to go to).

Once we both agreed on it, we then started talking about the rooms (which as in most apartments, one is always bigger than the other).

Then, AFTER we signed the lease and a week after graduation when I was finally home, he talked to me on AIM. We had discussed it and we came to an agreement: I would get the bigger room because
1) I found the place
2) I did all the talking with the SNAKE of a real estate agent who was a total ass to my family and I,
3) He wouldn't be there as much during the year because he'd go home for winter break and spring break and would leave by May anyway, and
4) I would basically be furnishing the apartment, and the only thing I'd really make him split with me for it is the kitchen table from iKea (a bargain at 100 bucks) and cleaning supplies.

He agreed, we'd each pay $775 a month.

A month later, I moved in most of my stuff since the lease started and brought all the furniture (Sofa, Chairs (both family gifts from my folks), my bed, my dresser, my book case, kitchen table, silverware, dishes, bowls, cleaning supplies, even the fucking shower curtains and bathroom rug to step on outside the shower), coincidently, he decided he wanted to be there that weekend cause he said he'd be visiting friends. I had no idea those friends would be staying at our apartment though, much less smoking inside (cigarrete smoke makes me wanna vomit). But, besides this, he started showing his true colors a bit when him and his friends just sat there in the beginning as my parents started helping me move my stuff in. Specifically, the furniture HE'D be using too. We basically implied after 20 minutes that he should start helping, and it's here where he made the first dick move that basically set the tone for the rest of the time:

He tried to get my new TV.

Now, this sounds relatively stupid, but here's why it's such a big deal. My new tv was a 40" LCD Sony TV that my parents gave me as a graduation gift. Being that I DON'T really know the kid, nor do I really know what he'd be planning for the apartment, OR who he'd have there and what they'd be like, I knew from the very beginning that I wanted it in my room for my own personal comfort (at no time did we discuss me providing a tv). Plus, his friends didn't seem too trustworthy, and this was the first time I saw them so I didn't want them to see it.

Of course, first thing him and his friend sees is the TV, and they start giggling over it like little school girls in Russian (can't really blame them I guess, but they were living a dream).

They took the TV off the truck before anything else, and when I realized they were bringing it in, I said right off the bat "leave it in my room." My roommate made a face, and proceeded to do so.

After moving most of my stuff in (while him and his friends just sat on my couch and chairs I brought in...not helping AT ALL anymore), my parents and I were going to pick up my bed and table at Ikea. Before I left though, my roommate proceeds to show how much of a dick he is and tried to INTIMIDATE me into putting my TV into the living room (tip number one asshole, DON'T try to intimidate me).

He told me he'd like to have the TV in the living room. I told him I don't have any furniture in the living room that could support it (trying to get out of it as my parents were waiting for me in the car to go get my bed, we were in a hurry so we had to move).

He then immediately goes before I can finish telling him "I'll buy you a TV stand. I don't care about the price, you can even KEEP it afterwords."

I tell him I dont know, I'll have to think about it and that I really needed to go. He then goes "Well I AM paying half the cable bill you know"

I look over at him and glared at what the fuck he just tried to do to me. I looked directly behind him too into his room to see he had his TV in there already, with the box open. Was he really trying to make a bid on this tv and intimidate me into it?

"...I have to go, I'm gonna talk to you about this later" I told him, and that was the best I could do without yelling at him right then and there for trying the shit. He wasnt going to be there when I got back because he had to go back home to New York.

A few days later, he contacts me on AIM. I told him that I was going to start living in the apartment in a week or two because my job was starting, he wouldn't be back till september but he was cool with it adding in at the end "You know there's only one real thing I want you know."

My response was exactly:

"Yes, about that. The situation as it is and will continue to be is that everything I have brought for the common areas of the apartment, I already have. Anything you feel is missing, I wouldn't oppose to you bringing, but everything I have in my room right now I'm keeping in my room and that's the way I wanna keep it."

Immediately, he started going crazy about it.

Him: "I DON'T understand, I'm PAYING half the cable"
Me: "And you have a tv in your room as well. If it's not such a big deal, you wont have any problem putting yours in the living room either if you want to."
Him: "I don't CARE about having a tv in my room!"
Me: "...ok, then you can do with it what you want, but I want my tv in my room for my own comfort and enjoyment."
Him: "LOOK, I think I made enough giveaways here. I have a room HALF the size of yours, I'm starting the lease earlier than I wanted, and I'm paying the SAME rent. I think you can grant this request."
Me: "No, we already made our deal. You were going to have to pay for a few extra months of rent ANYWAY considering the lease is for a year and you'd be here about 8-9 monthes only anyway, just because it's earlier instead of later doesn't change your situation cause you're out of here by May anyway. Furthermore, I agreed to furnish the apartment to make up for the difference in rooms, but what we agreed upon never included (nor was mentioned) my TV. Therefore, again, if you feel anything else is missing from the common areas of the apartment, you can provide it. I have provided enough as is."

This just lead to him making the same argument, and I had no patience for it, so I told him I had to go help my parents with chores around the house.

2 hours later when I come back, I see he immediately wrote me an email, where again he made the same argument.

I replied letting him know this situation was ridiculous (we're arguing over a fucking TV for God sakes, are you really gonna bitch about that?) and reinstated that no matter how much he wanted it, it wasn't going to happen.

He replid with "Ok, well I still don't understand, but here's the situation then. I'm not going to split the cable with you, nor will I ever go into your room to watch tv. I will order DSL internet when I come back in the fall, if you want we can split that. I'll see you when I get there."

That's great fucking logic, huh? He can afford to buy a TV stand for at least $100 bucks for my tv, but he refuses to spend the same cash at walmart to get a decent sized tv for this little built in bookcase we have in the living room already.

Wow, this kids a genius.

Obviously, with a discount from my cable company it was more to my advantage to just get cable internet (and its better too), so I told him from the get go "uh uh, if you wanna split internet with me, you're gonna get a router and split that cable internet bill. Otherwise, you're on your own."

He caved on that one immediately because he saw it'd be cheaper and faster, but still, he decided not to split for cable tv.

That's fine, I put a new door knob with a lock on my door when I moved in a week later. He was right, he wouldn't be watching TV in my room.

To this day, he still doesn't split for cable TV, and I dont mind because he doesnt get it. What did he do instead? To try and fuck me over, he bought himself an old school antenna for his room and watches maybe 3 channels channels on static basically.

Hey, I don't care. He's only fucking himself, I don't give a damn, digital cable's GREAT! Enjoy your 3 channels of staticy goodness, my good cupcake :D

Now, when he first moved in we both tried to start off right. We were friendly with each other, talked every now and then and all, but obviously he was different from all my past roommates in the sense that it already seemed we weren't gonna turn out to be good friends.

Hey, again it was his call, his loss.

Thing is, I treat the kid really well. First weekend he was here, my mom came to visit and even invited him to lunch with us to a nice restaurant. When his mom came, he never offered me any such token of friendship (fine by me, his Russian mother isn't exactly what you'd call a purdy lady). I would give the kid a bunch of little snacks I had around (spanish snacks from Argentina I ate with him on our first night living together, beers, donuts, popcorn, REAL food, etc). The kid, to date, has not done that for me ONCE.

What's the closest I ever got to a free meal? When he wanted to have a barbeque at our place with at most 6 people including the two of us...and it ended up being around 20 instead, with his friends nearly catching our deck on fire (I didn't think he'd be putting the grill on the DECK since we were on ground level and he could put it on the parking lot next to us. Moron nearly started a fire that woulda costed us a SHIT load). On this time alone, I told him I didn't want to have another party like that again with so many people and I didn't want that BBQ anymore, either get rid of it or leave it alone, but I don't want it used on the deck.

He agreed...and didn't pay me for his half of the internet bill that month. Already, I should have thrown his router back to him and just covered it myself.

Then the internet issues began. I use utorrent to download, which as anyone who uses it knows sucks up bandwith like crazy. Since he couldn't use the internet when I used it, I agreed with him that I'd download only after 10:30 at night (he's a college kid and can use it all day while I'm at work, but for some reason he wants it even more at night even though he has it all day).

Fine, but then he pushed it back to 11. Then he said I couldnt use it at all somenights cause he had "research for class he needed to do."

Whatever, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and put education first before downloading. Of course, he bullshitted me at least a few times.

Then came the sudden change in electric bills. I had ordered electricity when I first moved in an for the first 4 months we actually lived together, the electric bill came under my name, so I charged him half. After the 4th month, he somehow CANCELLED my account (I NEVER listed his name under my account, so I dunno HOW he did this) and started his own with his oven gas bill as well. My roommate is sort of a cooking nut and he wanted gas for the kitchen oven so he could cook. I, with so little time in the day and without need for the gas oven since I brought a toaster oven, told him I didn't want to pay that bill because I wont use it. He agreed...but somehow magically when he charged me from HIS bill, the bill went up 8 bucks more than usual that month.

I mentioned it and he assured me the gas bill wasnt included. Ever since then, the electric bill magically went down to what its average was before that bill change.

Funny coincedence, huh?

Then, after all my little urkes with him, I finally reached the last straw with him last night.

After having a painfully brutal day at work, I come home at 7:15 after working for almost 12 hours straight without leaving my desk. His bedroom door was open, which only meant that he wanted to ask for bill money or he wanted to ask me something annoying. He asked something annoying.

Him: "Hey, sorry for such short notice, but do you mind if I have a couple people over tonight?"
Me: "...when?" *I was already exhausted, starving, and had to sleep early that night cause I had to go into work early today.
Him: "umm...say 8?" *this was less than an hour away
Me: "...fine, let me make some dinner and I'll stay in my room."
Him: "Oh great great..."

and then he mumbles

Him: "yea shouldn't be more than 5 kids."
Me: "I thought you said TWO?"
Him: "OH...well yea, a couple..."
Me: "Alright, well listen, the only thing I ask is that I need to sleep early tonight cause i got a long day tomorrow, so please dont make it too late."
Him: "Yea well we're gonna be in the kitchen so"

He sees im not in the mood for bullshit and mumbles

Him: "so yea if we're makin to much noise just tell me and ill tell em to keep it down" *quickly looks away "so ok yea."
Me: "Fine, but I need to sleep, just keep it down.


A couple kids was really at least 6, and these fuckers were making a shitload of noise from the kitchen. These kids knew I was trying to sleep, and at around 11:15 I finally walked in there and as nicely as I could say

Me: "I'm gonna have to ask you guys to keep it down, I'm trying to sleep."
Him: "YEA, OK"

I looked at him and saw he was a little aggravated, but nervous as to what I was going to do. I looked at him to show I was serious, he looked away and I went back to bed. 20 minutes later they left.

This morning, after oversleeping and about to walk out the door, he came out of his room and looking right at me, I politely said "Good morning." and he didn't even reply.

Fuck you. I been nice, understanding and respectful up to this point and you've only pushed your luck. FUCK YOU, I dont give a shit anymore, you pay your part of the rent and electricity, I pay mine, THATS IT. I don't care about being polite anymore.

So that's my situation Sorry for the LONG ass post :eyepop: but I needed to tell everything to give the idea of what I'm going through.

What I want to know is advice as to what I can and should do about this because I cant stand the kid anymore. I don't believe talking to him about "Not having parties anymore" and "letting me download" is gonna help because he's pretty stubborn about everything (he really, really is a spoiled brat).

What I really wanna do is just give him his router and tell him "I think this internet situation isn't working and that we should each provide our own for ourselves" so that I have one less thing I have to ASK him for (it's my fucking account he's paying for, regardless if he's paying to use it too) and to kinda stick it back to him because hes given me so much shit already, but the truth is I'm afraid he's going to reply "Ok, then I don't think we should split electricity together."

Honestly, if he says that I'll say fine and make due, but it's gonna suck a lot without any electricity to live off of for BOTH of us.

I just dunno what to do with the fucker anymore. I cant move because I got no where else to go, but I'm not gonna take his shit anymore either. Suggestions?

4letterwords
01-19-2007, 06:23 AM
Thats a pickle. I've been in the same situation 2 times.
Last year, I paid for everything... including food. FOOD for the two of us. And my roomate came home drunk and puked on my school books... if you were hear at that time then you read the threads.

Truth is, outside of kicking him out, theres not much you can do except throw a hissy fit. Tell him you're not a child so you don't wanna live like one and if he can't handle it he can leave. If he won't then take allllll of your shit and go back home until you find a new place. Shit sucks.

ZaichikArky
01-19-2007, 06:51 AM
There's been worse. a LOT worse. I suggest reading up on this old thread and then consider yourself lucky.

http://www.outpostnine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3461

My roommate seemed better than yours anyway and I hated him too. The only thing you can really do is wait till spring and get yourself a new roommate or a new place. I had to put up with my roommate for a year and I dealt with it. In the meantime, don't try to be nice to him anymore and just ignore him completely unless you need something from him. That's how it became with me and my ex roomate. Mine was a learning experience. I had a very stupid reason for moving in with my ex roommate. You picked a roommate way too soon. Generally, it's a bad idea to move in with someone you barely know. At least in college dorms, you fill out a questionnaire so you get put with someone you can tolerate. I've heard few "terrible roommate" stories from freshman year, actually. My roommate I had freshmen year was arguably the best roommate I had in my college experience. the future you will be more careful when selecting a roommate.

Mechs
01-19-2007, 06:55 AM
To long, didn't read. Can I get a summary?

Plekto
01-19-2007, 07:00 AM
Still, he's not really anything more than inconsiderate and immature. That's unfortunately how about half of all roommates are, so while your story is upsetting you you, to me(and most of us here), it's entirely business as usual.

Horrible is when they start stealing stuff, breaking stuff, and not paying rent at all for weeks or months on end.

If you don't like it, just start carefully looking right near your work/etc for a single or a nice Master bedroom with somone(adult, renting room in their house) or guest house. And just suck it up for a few more months until you can get a new place.

悲しいパンダ
01-19-2007, 07:08 AM
A bit long for me. I'm kinda tired to boot. So, I'll read and comment when I wake up.

On-topic:
Yeah, roomates can be a pain.

Jiant Flying Panda
01-19-2007, 07:15 AM
Can't really give you advice on this matter because well, I never had a roomate before.

But, if it meens anything to you, I can understand.

My older brother...... My older brother was imature and inconsiderate like your roomate. My brother is much older than me (almost 7 years older) so when I was in high school and had to sleep early on weeknights he'd use to invite friends over to play Halo, fuck, I was so annoyed by that.

And he would never do chores, EVER! Even if it affected him directly he wouldn't do it. He'd never clean up the house, do the dishes, clean up the kitchen after making a mess, feed the dogs/take care of them, mow the lawn, take out the trash, he'd never do shit. Even after our mom would tell us to he still wouldn't do it.

And to be really hounest I didn't do my chores because I was told to, I just did them because my mom deserves to have her child do it. She was (is) a single parent trying hard to raise 3 children, I understood that, my brother never did.

Anyways. I don't know what you can do. Maybe, you can fight fire with fire and just not give a shit anymore? Maybe then will he react.

Fumi
01-19-2007, 08:02 AM
Maybe ask him to stay in his room when he has friends over?

I'm not so sure about throwing his router back to him. He is not your friend, you don't have to treat him like one, but you wouldn't want the relationship worsen to the point that he starts to break things and trash the place.

haterllnation
01-19-2007, 08:07 AM
Still, he's not really anything more than inconsiderate and immature. That's unfortunately how about half of all roommates are, so while your story is upsetting you you, to me(and most of us here), it's entirely business as usual.

Horrible is when they start stealing stuff, breaking stuff, and not paying rent at all for weeks or months on end.

If you don't like it, just start carefully looking right near your work/etc for a single or a nice Master bedroom with somone(adult, renting room in their house) or guest house. And just suck it up for a few more months until you can get a new place.

QFT.
Added to the list would be if you live with a person and their mom is ALWAYS over. That isn't bad, but say they invite you to Florida just because and when you decline, they rifle through your stuff saying "I found out you have money stashed. Why can't you go??"

I was saving for a car. :bang: I moved out a month later like a ninja. Didn't even know it was happening, though he suspected it. He didn't blame me after what his mom did. He didn't stop her, though.


That situation sucks. I would agree with doing nothing to get back at him. However, I think THIS roommate would rather you do it. He would probably end up having many parties and irk you further. I would try to find another place if you can and if you do let him have a piece of your mind (unless he seems like he's a nutjob, then just bail).

Digital Masta
01-19-2007, 08:17 AM
My roommate decided to leave school so I fear when I return to school on Sunday I'm gonna have joe asshole for roommate.

I've never had a bad roommate and I've been pretty much living with the guy who was my roommate for 2 years. 1 year as my suitemate, the following fall semester as my roommate (that spring I went to japan so no roommate), this past fall he was my roommate again and now he's gone...

It would be sweet to have a single for a semester but thats probably not going to happen.

shimanotaka
01-19-2007, 09:19 AM
Not that it helps your problem much, but it's possible to set a uTorrent downlink limit, so that there is still some bandwidth for surfing.

Vic_Rattlehead
01-19-2007, 11:14 AM
Haha, that was an awesome read. I think I know you much better than my neighbours!

pangloss
01-19-2007, 02:57 PM
Seriously, I would have preferred your situation to the roomate I was stuck with.

Mastiker
01-19-2007, 04:45 PM
I don't have a roommate either, but I can relate to my brother.

Won't give you the long end of it, but basically:


He has stolen over $10,000 worth of movies, tvs, vcrs, dvds, dvd players, digital cameras, video games, cds, and computers from our house. And $10,000 is an estimate. It's probably more.
He refuses to sleep in his bed but rather prefers to sleep on the couch
Falls asleep with the TV on at a really loud volume
Also sleeps with food/dishes all over him - usually ends up breaking them or staining the couch
Eats all of the food in the house and doesn't buy any more.
Borrows a shit load of money from my mom at least twice a day
Uses the phone at all hours of the day
Disappears for two days without explanation quite often. I suspect he's a werewolf.
Doesn't do any chores
Brings random people to the house
When he's not sleeping on the couch, he's sleeping in my bed. And getting food all over it.
Wears my clothes despite the fact that I'm way bigger than him.
And, best of all, crticizes my sister and I when we are one the phone too long, forget a chore, or eat too much food, but when we bitch him out he complains and screams and has a fit until he gets his way.


Any he's 22 :gloomy:

but, good luck with your roommate!

Trump
01-19-2007, 07:41 PM
When he's not sleeping on the couch, he's sleeping in my bed. And getting food all over it.



I would seriously have hit him as hard as I could.

King Kong
01-19-2007, 08:09 PM
To long, didn't read. Can I get a summary?

LOL. :bang: :duh: No wonder you opted to be in the military.

Beowulf
01-19-2007, 08:34 PM
No wonder you opted to be in the military.
:rofl:

Anyway with your roommate situation I'd just cut him off from everything. If he causes you too many problems you could try talking to your landlord to see if you get him evicted but you stay there (seriously I have a buddy who did this). If he starts the friends over and party shit (like with the noise) then threaten to take him to civil court. You could have a case (maybe) but that's not really the point, just throw legalise at him till he caves.

Kaji
01-19-2007, 08:44 PM
If his name isn't on the lease, I'd say to post on craigslist and interview possible candidates for a replacement, then boot your current roommate ASAP once you have a deposit from someone.

Plekto
01-19-2007, 08:56 PM
That would work, too. BTW, looing for a roommate is one of the few times when you CAN discriminate, so it's a good thing to do so - and be picky about your next roommate.

I find that peole from other cultures make great choices, IMO - different things to learn about and of course, most other cultures tend to raise better behaved people as a rule(at least those that get to the U.S.for school - they tend to be very studious and motivated as a rule)

ellie
01-19-2007, 09:11 PM
I ALMOST MADE THIS SAME THREAD YESTERDAY. Seriously. I was going to make a MY ROOMMATE IS A WHOREBAG BITCH thread, but then I didn't. So I will post in yours and I hope I'm not stealing the spotlight from you, but I want to rant too!

I have 2 roommates. Every month, I am in charge of paying cable bill, which is $91.50 each month, so my roommates both write me a check for their part of the bill. L is in charge of the electricity and B is in charge of gas. So yesterday I get home from school and I bring in the mail. I see there is something from the gas company addressed to B, but there is a note on it that says FINAL NOTICE OPEN IMMEDIATELY, so I figure I should open it because, well, it's ALL of our gas bill so it's not like I'm just opening her mail.

So I open the bill, and it says that we have until 5pm today to pay our bill that hasn't been paid since October. We owe $202.41, and if we don't pay it then they will turn our gas off, and it will cost $200 to reconnect it and also a deposit.

Now...WHAT THE HELL. L and I have been giving B our part of the gas bill every month, which means she has just been pocketing it and hasn't paid our bill. You have no idea how pissed I am. And it snowed yesterday and it is supposed to snow again on Sunday, so if our gas gets turned off that means NO HEAT, and it has been really cold here.

B made some excuse like her mom forgot to mail the check, but that doesn't even make sense to me. Why would her MOM be paying her electricity bill and why would L and I be paying B instead of her mom? It doesn't make sense and I am pissed. B has mysteriously not been home, she said she would take care of the electricity bill...but I dunno if she did or not, she won't answer her phone when we call. We have 49 more minutes, then we'll see if the heat has been turned off or not. And if it has, you have no idea how freaking mad I will be.

Decade
01-19-2007, 09:38 PM
Thats a pickle. I've been in the same situation 2 times.
Last year, I paid for everything... including food. FOOD for the two of us.

Wanna be my new roommate? I'm nice and quiet and clean and cute and cuddly >_<

To long, didn't read. Can I get a summary?

My roommates a douchebag.

Still, he's not really anything more than inconsiderate and immature. That's unfortunately how about half of all roommates are, so while your story is upsetting you you, to me(and most of us here), it's entirely business as usual.

Oh I fully acknowledge that, I really do believe I have it better than a LOT of other people.

He's still a douchebag though.

Haha, that was an awesome read. I think I know you much better than my neighbours!

I like you, do you like me?
High five!

Anyway with your roommate situation I'd just cut him off from everything. If he causes you too many problems you could try talking to your landlord to see if you get him evicted but you stay there (seriously I have a buddy who did this). If he starts the friends over and party shit (like with the noise) then threaten to take him to civil court. You could have a case (maybe) but that's not really the point, just throw legalise at him till he caves.

He's actually cosigned the lease with me, so my only chance would be to break the lease and leave. Problem is I got no where else to go right now, so I got basically no choice but to suck it up for now.

I find that peole from other cultures make great choices, IMO - different things to learn about and of course, most other cultures tend to raise better behaved people as a rule(at least those that get to the U.S.for school - they tend to be very studious and motivated as a rule)

He's a foreign kid from Russia. Fuck, he's the son of a Russian DIPLOMAT for fucks sake and he's STILL a fucking spoiled brat.

I ALMOST MADE THIS SAME THREAD YESTERDAY. Seriously. I was going to make a MY ROOMMATE IS A WHOREBAG BITCH thread, but then I didn't. So I will post in yours and I hope I'm not stealing the spotlight from you, but I want to rant too!

Rant you thunder stealing bitch!

Nah seriously, I don't mind, you just know my pain (and hopefully nothing worse).

As for YOUR roommate, if shes not on the lease, you two have to kick the bitch out ASAP. She's not reliable and she's only gonna get you both screwed over for future apartments too.

ellie
01-19-2007, 09:44 PM
Thing is, I've known her since I was 5. She's just a dumbass I think. So I can't just ditch her. She is moving into her sorority house next year, thank god. And I get to keep all the furniture, and I am picking out my new roommates..very, VERY carefully.

Good luck with your roommate situation!

Digital Masta
01-19-2007, 09:56 PM
I'd have to room with someone I know regarding an apartment.

Cherub Rock
01-19-2007, 10:52 PM
I ALMOST MADE THIS SAME THREAD YESTERDAY. Seriously. I was going to make a MY ROOMMATE IS A WHOREBAG BITCH thread, but then I didn't. So I will post in yours and I hope I'm not stealing the spotlight from you, but I want to rant too!

I have 2 roommates. Every month, I am in charge of paying cable bill, which is $91.50 each month, so my roommates both write me a check for their part of the bill. L is in charge of the electricity and B is in charge of gas. So yesterday I get home from school and I bring in the mail. I see there is something from the gas company addressed to B, but there is a note on it that says FINAL NOTICE OPEN IMMEDIATELY, so I figure I should open it because, well, it's ALL of our gas bill so it's not like I'm just opening her mail.

So I open the bill, and it says that we have until 5pm today to pay our bill that hasn't been paid since October. We owe $202.41, and if we don't pay it then they will turn our gas off, and it will cost $200 to reconnect it and also a deposit.

Now...WHAT THE HELL. L and I have been giving B our part of the gas bill every month, which means she has just been pocketing it and hasn't paid our bill. You have no idea how pissed I am. And it snowed yesterday and it is supposed to snow again on Sunday, so if our gas gets turned off that means NO HEAT, and it has been really cold here.

B made some excuse like her mom forgot to mail the check, but that doesn't even make sense to me. Why would her MOM be paying her electricity bill and why would L and I be paying B instead of her mom? It doesn't make sense and I am pissed. B has mysteriously not been home, she said she would take care of the electricity bill...but I dunno if she did or not, she won't answer her phone when we call. We have 49 more minutes, then we'll see if the heat has been turned off or not. And if it has, you have no idea how freaking mad I will be.

My apartment's heat doesn't work very well. It's usually in the 60s in my place no matter how high I turn the thermostat. Luckily I prefer it to be a bit chilly, but somedays it upsets me. I sleep under several blankets now, which is strange because I have always used just one comforter and nothing else.

But yeah, I have been thru the cable situation. Last year our cable bill was in my name so I had to get the money from my roomie, and he didn't have a checking account so he had to get money from his dad every weekend (he went home every weekend, seriously). It was more of a hassle than it should have been considering it wasn't even his money that was being spent, and I always felt guilty taking it from his dad.

Lan
01-19-2007, 10:59 PM
Hope things go alright for all of you with bad roommates.

Still going through my first year away from home and I'm glad my parents think that it's ok for me to have an apartment alone, though they wouldn't mind me splitting rent with a housemate somewhere. Advantage of living in a small town ;D a lot cheaper rent.

And being the son of a diplomat makes him more likely to be spoiled. =\ Rich, y'know?

You seemed to turn out alright though Decade ;D

You could do waht someone suggested and fight fire with fire, and try to get him to leave on his own....but...ionno..I don't see any good solutions...I'l post if I think of something.

Roxie
01-20-2007, 12:13 AM
i had to live with 5 other girls once. and i didn't even get to pick them.

Plekto
01-20-2007, 12:47 AM
Dang. lucky!.

The Divine Comedy
01-20-2007, 12:57 AM
Dang. lucky!.

You've never had to live with five girls, have you?

Cherub Rock
01-20-2007, 01:09 AM
I imagine at least two of them would be on their period at any given time.

Soli
01-20-2007, 01:37 AM
I'm sorry you have such a bad roommate! It seems the good people always get stuck with bad people and never with each other.

I share a room with my sister, but we love each other. :) I'm a worse roommate because I get bad nightmares and sleep talk/walk a lot. >_>