On the Record  Posts: 5974 Joined: 7 Feb 2008     | |
Muckraker  Posts: 302 Joined: 19 Sep 2008     | How'd you end up with so many people under one roof O.O Could never live with that many roomates. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3086 Joined: 13 Jul 2008     | Don't pretend you're a terrorist in the middle of the night and yell at your roommate in Russian to "Get Down!" while pointing a BB gun at his head and wearing a balaclava. It hurts. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1169 Joined: 2 Sep 2008     | Nope I haven't, but it sounds like you and your girlfriend need to find a new place. |
Developer Emeritus  Posts: 1572 Joined: 5 Aug 2003    | Walking in on your roommate who showers once a week (Seriously) having sex in your bed with her equally dirty boyfriend is a pretty terrible thing. |
On the Record Posts: 5974 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 |
They're renting our place, hence why we want it clean and taken care of. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1169 Joined: 2 Sep 2008 |
What's the problem then? they should be living by your rules I have to commend you on your tolerance I would have kicked them both out on the street a long time ago. |
Vault Legend  Posts: 2205 Joined: 30 Jul 2008   |
Perfect. Tell them to shape up, or ship out. You honestly don't need to take that. |
On the Record Posts: 5974 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 |
We kinda can't afford the place on our own yet, and this city is full of scary roommate applicants. Plus they're sort of our friends, we'd feel kinda bad, we just want them to carry some goddamn weight. It's difficult. |
Red Guard  Posts: 3512 Joined: 18 Sep 2008     | I had a bunk-bed in my dorm at college (Might count as roommate?), and I went to bed before my roommate. He would climb into the bunk above mine, and then the bed would start to shake as he would please himself nightly. I REALLY wish this was a joke. My advice? Also, they rent from YOU and do this? Oh man I got one beautiful word for you: Evict. OR, sit 'em down and say: 'Get your shit together or I'm tossing you out. You have 2 weeks to improve.' That way, after 1 week, if it looks like they aren't, you can put up advertisements for new tenants. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 98 Joined: 19 Oct 2008    | I'm living in a VERY similar position. I rent a room and my friends (a couple) own the house. The roles are reversed however. They're really messy, I mean REALLY messy. I spend a lot of time cleaning up after them. We all get along pretty well though. There are two of us renters though and my friends (the owners of the house) are a little worried about him, he's startin to get a little behind on his rent, and none of us can afford much right now. The only advice I can give you is to have a serious talk with them. Be polite and respectful, but let them know that they need to do their share around the house. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1169 Joined: 2 Sep 2008 | Hilarious story Baby Tea lol, just be glad there was a mattress between you and him. Also I totally agree with your statement. If you're living in someone elses property you have to respect their rules really, even if they are friends they should respect the fact you're the land lord. |
Vault Legend Posts: 2205 Joined: 30 Jul 2008 |
Ah, makes a little more sense now. There are a couple of ways to do this, which one you use is really up to you. Aggressive Stance: They're living in your house, therefore, they follow your rules. If you want them to clean, then they better clean. If they don't start charging for the time you have to clean for them. Why has their rent suddenly gone up? Because they didn't follow the rules. I'm charging now for lodging and maid-work. Aggressive Stance: New ground rules, folks, it's time to shape up. If you don't clean for yourself, then deal with the absolute mess you've made for yourself. I'm going to keep what I need clean, personally, and nothing else. If that doesn't work for you, then start pulling weight. Passive-Aggressive Stance: If I start catching your mess in my work environment, then I'm moving it to become your mess. If you leave trash out I will collect it, and dump it in your living space. Your problem, you deal with it. I'm tired of it. If it's dirty dishes, guess whose bathroom sink is going to be full for the next few days? Rubber gloves are in the cabinet, hop to. Passive Stance: Things will have to change, and I'll give you time. In a few weeks/month/few months/year if you haven't shaped up, then I'll start going more extreme. We're all sharing this space, it's just as important that you keep up as I do. If not, then this will get ugly, and words will be had. Let's do this the easy way, guys. There are more, but going into full elaboration would take longer than I have. English class beckons. Hope I've helped a bit. Good luck, my Pendronian friend. |
On the Record Posts: 5974 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 |
Our current OCD renter has walked in on me, my girlfriend, our other roommate and two previous roommates in various states of self pleasing, coupled intimacy or general undress. She really needs to learn how to knock, on the plus side what she sees is almost in itself a punishment since she's all "sex is icky!" |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 668 Joined: 16 May 2008    | I live with a vegetarian hippy who is obsessed with tai chi and is always on a power trip. The funny thing was that one night I said 'So do you drink milk? No. Do you eat cheese? No. Do you eat eggs? No.' (imagine the list going on for a while) 'So you're a vegan then? No I'm a vegetarian'... well not by definition. Either way, he struts around the house as if he owns the place and does not hesitate to find fault with anything that myself or my other housemates are doing. On one occasion he even said straight to me that he thinks that he is better than me. In addition due to trying to keep bills down we try to not have the heating on, which is fair enough. However a few weeks ago in England we had a very cold week, I was walking around my house with a tee-shirt, jumper and my coat on and was still cold. Eventually when my feet went numb and I couldn't feel them I told him that I was going to put the heating on. I put on the bloody heating and he spent the rest of the night moaning about it. Last point: I know that is a bastard move but he's a bastard to me. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 539 Joined: 12 Mar 2008  | I feel it is important to point out that everything is relative. Chances are there are people out there who will think you are gross and disgusting as well. I had a roommate who was incredibly filthy and messy; empty bottles littering every room of the house, piles of dirty dishes covered with months-old rotting food stacked in his bedroom, dirty clothes unwashed for so long they were cemented to the floor, etc. His girlfriend was even worse, even though she didn't live there she would come over and trash the house even more. This drove me quite nuts and eventually led to me moving out. Now I live with another guy who is a complete neat freak and thinks I'm the disgusting slob. I know how he feels. He obsessively cleans and neatens the entire house on a daily basis, passive-aggressively complaining about it the entire time. *sigh* Roommates are fun. Anyway it's still better than the guy I lived with who was a pedophile, which is actually a pretty funny story. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1710 Joined: 2 Jan 2008     | When I was living in the dorms at college my roommates had horrible bathroom etiquette. It's one thing to not change the toilet paper roll, but to peel apart the cardboard tube and use it to wipe your ass, then leave it on the floor is... ...well, needless to say I live in an apartment now. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 123 Joined: 23 Jun 2008   | I feel out of place here as I dont have a horror story: my first roommate in college was the son of a cleaning business owner so he kept ME in line keeping the place tidy; and my second (current) roommate I met in my diff. EQ class at the university and we're such complete opposites with regards to most things it meshes pretty well--neither of us intrude into the others space/time it's quite simple to maintain the common ground. I can say, however, that the biggest step forward we took when starting to rent was to sit down and hammer out some set of guidelines or rules on things that need to get done, above all else AVOID grey area because that's what spawns the "it's not my problem" attitude. Put specific people in charge of specific chores/duties and rotate them if necessary to make sure shit gets done in a fair manner. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2814 Joined: 23 Dec 2007     | People like this are why I intend to acquire the following items before attending university: A whetstone for my cut-throat razor (so it may be sharpened in a menacing fashion). A large and heavy crowbar (in case of needing to end fights quickly) A dog (so it may be hurled at offensive persons) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 190 Joined: 6 Sep 2008   | Perhaps a very short-term roomate story, but I shared a room with a guy on a classics trip (for a week) and he had the smelliest feet. Any he held it in for 4 days and left the BIGGEST brick in the loo. It wouldn't flusher. It practically ate the toilet brush and then rosse up once more to horrify us with it's stench and sheer size. It took a whole day to brek down enough for it to be even partly be able to flush. My god, It was Horrible... And I kept finding his underwearr on my bed. On my pillow, over my stuff. Good god. |
Paperboy  Posts: 27 Joined: 6 Nov 2008   | i am the only swedish kid in my apartment, im renting from some down on his luck friend of mine, who is american, and basically paying 75% of the rent. Hes got something against my guitar, and keeps telling me to be a man and play electric guitar, and he wont let me celebrate swedish christmas.... hes got something against foreigners. He plays WAY to many video games,it seems to be the only place his money goes, and is yet to get a job, living off the money rich old daddy got him. the apartment is a shithole, but the owner is a friend of his so he gets it at 50% off. Asshole, he cant even keep a girlfriend for more then 3 weeks. |
On the Record  Posts: 7017 Joined: 22 Aug 2008    |
I'm not sure whether this tops it, but my younger brother used to do the same thing. We weren't in a bunk bed, but we were in the same room. I'm not sure how many points get deducted for not a bunk bed and how many get added for younger brother... |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 396 Joined: 8 Mar 2008    | ok so i used to live in a house with 21 other people. Ok before you go holy crap 21!! i had 3 damn good years in that house, but of course there are always bad roomates were ever you go, But this one took the cake. This man was a nice guy, i mean he would do anything for ya and was just fun to hang out with. But when he drank, he turned into the official raging spawn of satan. We had a party and he started 6 fights (he lost them all) threatened to kill one of the other people in the house. The next day we had a house meeting and we were talking about evicting him. Well instead of evicting him we gave him a second chance with one rule, he could not drink in our house or come home drunk, if he did he was out. Well along came his 21st birthday and long story short he did $3000 in damage to the house, and he keyed two of my roomates cars. How did we know it was him? he keyed his name into the car. oh and the cars? $5000. roomate from hell |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1097 Joined: 6 Oct 2008    | Just moved out of my roomate's place. He was cool, then he got a girlfriend. Fat, valley-girl, dumb as a fucking brick, cam whore. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2538 Joined: 29 Mar 2008  | I've just (about 5 weeks ago) moved in with 3 complete strangers, two of whom are a couple. they are actually pretty awesome |
Beat Writer  Posts: 141 Joined: 31 May 2008 | i want that guy with the pedophile story to tell us about it |
On the Record  Posts: 5949 Joined: 7 Mar 2008     | i haven't had a bad roommate, tho friends have 2 of them were living together, one had a cat, he wouldn't clean it's litter box, leave food around, wouldn't really clean up much after himself and sit in his room and play evercrack all the time anyways my friend ended up booting him out because of the health issues, he had a young kid at the time. the one who got booted out, thrid place in a couple years, and he was "the victim" and kept it up after he kept getting the shaft for doing crap like that |
Press Junketeer Posts: 440 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 | Increase then rent an by an outrageous amount and tell assign chores that after doing them allow them to have to pay slightly less then before you increased the rent. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 440 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 |
sounds like we will see you on court TV! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1440 Joined: 19 Jun 2008  | Never, ever allow the allegedly recovered junkie brother of your housemate to crash on your couch for any period of time. 5 minutes is long enough for them to fleece some items from ya. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2893 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | I shared an apartment with 2 other guys a few years ago. It was pretty chill for the most part, but we had occasional squabbles. For instance, we only had 1 bathroom between the 3 of us, so you can imagine there were conflicts at times. And I seemed to end up washing the dishes the most. The worst, though, was when one of my roomies had a nervous breakdown (he smoked a lot of weed, every day) and just moved out one day. He was scared that these guys we met at a party were going to come and kill him. And our other room-mate was gone on a camping trip. I can only imagine his surprise when he came home to find one of his room-mates gone. Actually, I may have been one of the problem room-mates at times - the guy that was on the camping trip, above, was pretty much a loner, content to just hang out by himself in his room. The other guy and I, though, liked to have parties sometimes, much to his chagrin. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2247 Joined: 5 Jan 2008 |
Pwnage. (Dammit, now I feel like an ass when I say that). But I still say that's awesome. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 183 Joined: 8 Jun 2008   | My housemate and I get on brilliantly but there is one pretty funny story (plenty actually but this jumped to mind). Having recently found myself a dealer (who delivers no less!) there's been a steady supply of weed into my house for the last coupla months. Before I bought myself a grinder I'd just been using some scissors which are in the kitchen. One afternoon I couldn't find them. I later found them while having a shower, they were in the bathroom. Additionally, the shower was barely draining at all. Turns out my housemate had been using these scissors to trim his pubic hair. He assured me that that was the only time he'd done it so I believed him and started using the scissors on my swiss army knife instead. A week later while having a shower a huge clump of hair rose out of the plughole and started floating around, was scary!. Eventually I tired of cutting my weed and got a grinder. Later on I find out that he's also been using my pocket knife's scissors whenever I left it out on the table, to trim his toenails! Needless to say I'm glad I stopped using them. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 360 Joined: 11 Oct 2008   | Sigh... My boyfriend lives in the on-campus apartments at his school, where you don't really get to choose who you live with- if there's an empty room, the school finds someone to fill it. Unfortunately, one of his roommates is a pathological liar who's... well, annoying. They've lived together for over a year, though, so we're used to it. He's not a bad egg when he isn't trying to be someone else than who he is. HOWEVER... the other roommate is... well, let's see. He's someone who lost a lot of weight very, very quickly (think Cartman from South Park and that's how this guy was before college), and is now anorexic. And doesn't shower. And is so up-his-own-ass about everything that we've taken to extreme passive-aggression in our conversations when he walks in the room. Mostly, though, the second roommate (who we hope has a heart attack over Christmas, because he's slowly killing himself) refuses to wash dishes, take showers, do anything quietly when people are sleeping, and once told my boyfriend (who was a lineman in football in high school, so he's a big guy) that if he wanted, he'd tell him about his diet. Also, he's an English major who thinks he knows absolutely everything there is to know, and one of those conservatives who's ignorant in his beliefs (nothing against conservatives, as long as you're not stupid and racist about it). I could go on about how much we truly hate this guy, and how much he's beginning to hate us :D, but I won't. This IS cathartic, though. |
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Goddamn, My roomates are driving me up the wall, I live with an excercise happy, grudge holding, 28 year old emo kid and a OCD, 27 year old who's only been living away from home for 2 years and my girlfriend of 5 years and I am going out of my goddamn mind.
The other two treat us like their goddamn parents, refusing to clean because they're always too tired or busy, it's like our freetime isn't important and can easily be spent cooking and cleaning. The big problem is, we want to keep the house clean, they say they don't care but they always complain when it's messy. Argh!
Anyone else got roommate rant, horror stories or advice to dispense?