So literally 3 weeks ago my roommates, a couple, moved in. Roommate A arrived before his boyfriend, who will be called Roommate B. This is my first actual apartment by myself (not a dorm or family), so I've never had to deal with a couple before, or anything else that comes along with legitimately renting a place. Suffice it to say, from the moment Roommate A moved in, he has been a complete nightmare.
He didn't even say hi, or introduce himself, he walked in, put his stuff down and immediately left. I later found out by looking at my email that he found the living conditions of the house to be "filthy." I do not know how to properly describe that the house was dusty, there was no furniture as my old roommate owned everything and I hadn't gotten around to buying more, and everything else I had literally just cleaned or swept the day before. The landlord pretty much told him to get over it, as it's stated in the lease he was coming into an as-is apartment and taking over a lease, not signing a new one.
Roommate B isn't even supposed to be here. It states in the lease that only 2 people are supposed to occupy our part of house and if anyone is found to be more than a casual guest (staying for more than 3 days) they are to pay a fee of $10/day. I told him I didn't care if it was a couple, but told him about this part of the lease, and he saw it when he signed as well. I even told my landlord a few days after they started the application process that he was moving his boyfriend in because I was having second thoughts about living with a couple and their attitude was pretty blah when we FaceTime'd and I showed them the house and the fact they had no real plans for a job or money or school or anything like that really sketched me out. My landlord told me I couldn't deny someone because they sketched me out and when I brought up the fact he was moving his boyfriend in and it was against the lease, he shut up. I looked for another roommate and found one, but things fell through and when Landlord asked me what the status was after Roommate A had emailed him I told him I was fine with him moving in if it was just him. Landlord asked Roommate A if he was planning on moving his boyfriend in, and Roommate A told him no - so we went through with everything.
Before he moved in I asked him for the deposit, to which we agreed he would pay me half before and half after. It's been 3 weeks since they both moved in and neither of them have showed any signs of paying the rest of the deposit because they quote "cannot justify paying it when the landlord doesn't seem to do anything or take care of anything and we shouldn't be paying it to you because you still live here." Ok then.
Throughout the 3 weeks (I am still absolutely blown away it literally hasn't even been a month) that they've lived here they have passive aggressively been trying to move me out of my own house and are the most inconsiderate and rude people I've ever met. They've taken up all the space in the refrigerator, we have an older tub/shower with some pipes in the way and they are constantly moving the shower hooks to go AROUND the pipes no matter how much I move them back, they've had people over and been incredibly loud and obnoxious with them, which I don't care about, but when it's 3 am and the "living room" is actually just a little space in front of my door and I can hear EVERYTHING that happens, yeah, it's not really a living room and shouldn't be used like that. They also are constantly in the "living room" smoking pot and watching shit on extremely high volumes at all hours of the day and night. They've gone through literally everything from the kitchen to the bathroom, have moved everything everywhere to where THEY want it and to where THEY like it and don't even care or ask. They asked me one (1) time if they could move my hair stuff in the bathroom and if they could throw away all the old roommates food in the refrigerator. That's it. They've stolen my laundry detergent and lied to my face about it, they took my phone charger, and I've asked several times for them to not like the stairs door because the house is old and lock sticks and they still do it.
Last night I came home, the stairs door was locked, my key stuck and I was locked out for 5 minutes. The internet bill was due which I told him about 2 weeks ago and he just said "Oh ok" when I reminded him about that day and I had just had enough when he showed absolutely no sign of giving me his half. I changed the wifi password/name and when they stopped trying to reset it and went to bed I took the router into my room. This morning he knocked on my door and asked what happened and I just told him straight up, it's my router, it's my internet, it's under my name and I pay for it and if you two are going to act like you live here by yourselves and try to move me out I guess I just have a hard time justifying sharing with you. What ensued was a 20 minute blowout in which he told me they weren't being passive aggressive, they haven't done anything wrong, and they're not trying to move me out. And yet EVERY SINGLE person I tell this story to has echoed my thoughts on them being passive aggressive/trying to make me uncomfortable and move me out or says "well if they're not doing that then you just found two of the most inconsiderate people in the world."
And the thing is too that he used "Oh well you need to adjust to the living situation I've lived with more roommates than you" as some sort of justification or excuse. I've lived with people too, and honestly, there's just some fucking conversations you don't need or shouldn't have to have because it's common sense and common courtesy that maybe you should leave room for the other people in the house in the refrigerator or maybe you shouldn't be making so much noise in the living room or use headphones or turn the volume down or perhaps you should ask before you buy tacky artwork and fairy lights and pin them up everywhere and move other peoples stuff and just generally acting as if you and your boyfriend are the only ones in the house. The list goes on and on.
And maybe it'd be one thing if I hadn't tried talking to them about this stuff, but I have. I've mentioned the door sticking to Roommate B and was told this morning but Roommate A "well I didn't know. You didn't tell me." So you're telling me you and your boyfriend don't talk to each other? I have to have TWO conversations when I have an issue or want something to happen with the house? What fresh hell kind of bullshit is that.
And the thing is that yesterday I
- told Landlord about Roommate B being here and the other countless lease violations they're committing because I asked if someone was to be evicted if everyone would be evicted (he told me yes?? But I read online that doesn't have to happen that way and I then asked if there was a difference between being evicted bc of rent vs someone violating the lease agreement)
- met with a lawyer about this whole situation because I wanted to be sure I wouldn't be held responsible for their lease infractions and lose the roof over my head
- have started looking at other houses to move into (hopefully by October)
So honestly, if they get kicked out or fined the $10/day, it doesn't matter to me. They can have fun paying that $1200 bill every month which is literally as much as a 1 bedroom is in our area so lol. Fuck them. I refuse to believe that they're just two of the most oblivious people in the world because what they're doing is so passive aggressive and purposefully inconsiderate there's no way SOMETHING in them hasn't been like "Ummmmmm maybe don't do that?"
And when we talked this morning he was like "Well you've been passive aggressive too you slam doors" etc etc like? Lol. It's a door, dude. And then he randomly brought up the fact that the application fee was $35 when I said it was $10. Like? Ok, if that was an issue for you, why'd you pay. How does that have anything to do with me and being passive aggressive? I am literally never here, I'm working or at school, so I'm sorry for wanting my house to be a nice and comfortable space for me when I am here?? I don't get it.
Submitted August 24, 2016 at 11:44PM by barcelonas http://ift.tt/2bOcDcC badroommates
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