Anyone have a Roommate Rant?

[Walter]

Since I'm on a roll, I figured I'd give another of my horror stories.

So here it is…myself and my friend had found a GREAT apartment, and the 3rd roommate, a good friend of mine, backed out at the last minute…hearing friends give positive recommendations about people they found on craiglist, we decided to go that route…we found people right away, as the place is inexpensive and very nice, and my roommate and I are both quite friendly and accommodating. Anyway, it was a female (we’re both males), but she was very nice, very willing to split all the costs of things such as cleaning products, cable, internet, utilities, etc. Our lease started soon, so we said, sure, this will be fine.

Within just a few days, it was clear things WEREN’T going to work out. Not only was she incredibly annoying (one of those people who backs you into a corner and talks for about half an hour when it’s clear that you are busy), and was constantly complaining about the condition of the apartment, even though it was fairly immaculate. My roommate and I were very busy with work (oh yeah, the third roommate, to my knowledge, didn’t have a job), and were rarely there. One day I got home, and the apartment REEKED of pot. I knew the roommate smoked a lot of pot, and even told her that she what did in her room was her business, but I didn’t want that going on in the living room and kitchen-area, because I didn’t want the smell permeating and sticking around. She said OK. Came up 2 nights later, and she is sitting on MY couch in the living room, smoking a bowl with her boyfriend. OK, maybe she didn’t understand me. I told her AGAIN to not smoke pot in the living room. Few nights later, you can take a guess what I caught her doing.

OK, so that’s just how it started…she then came complaining to me a few days ago that she really can’t live with guys, she wants to clean the bathroom every day, and it’s just too time consuming. I made it clear to her that we definitely want to have and enjoy a clean apartment, but we have to be reasonable…in other words, we’re not cleaning the bathroom and kitchen counter with antibacterial soap every day, it’s insane. She then went on to say that she basically wants to move out…I said OK, but made it clear that we need to find another roommate to fill her spot before she is relieved of her duty to pay rent (we have a signed sub-lease for 1 year). She kept blabbering away, and I finally just left the apartment. The next night, I went up to the place, and her whole room is cleared out, literally as if she had never moved in. She then calls my roommate and tells him that she is demanding half of November’s rent back, because I was so messy that she had to clean for 8 hours.

[Walter]

I got randomly selected to dorm with this to be nameless roommate. And he is the NIGHTMARE of all bad roommates. I posted this on http://www.roommaterant.com originally, but since I've used this site before I figure it's a good place to contribute to.

Two weeks into school, I woke up in the middle of the night to my roomie having sex in the bed next to me. I saw him totally naked as he was on top of this girl who was also completely naked! Worst of all, I pretended to not hear or see and went back to sleep only to wake up the next morning, go to the bathroom (thinking the guy was alone in the bed) and come back to a locked door. The girl was still there and they were at it again. I had been officially sexiled.

This NIGHTMARE roommate halfway into semester has on different occasions gotten SO drunk, he has pissed all over the bathroom floor AND took a dump in the common room of their dorm.

Seriously, i’m not the worlds best roommate at times, but give me a break…

[ksea999]

I rented a room to a 22-year-old girl. I was reluctant, but figured how bad could it be. Let me tell you how bad it was. The first sign should have been ten minutes after she moved in. After her Dad dropped her belongings off for, we sat down to fill out the rental agreement. As I started going over it with her, she flipped out because she didn't have any rent money to give me. She thought she paid rent at the end of the month!!! I told her to call her dad who had just left to bring her money to pay the rent. If that wasn't enough of a red flag, there's lots more. Over the course of the six months she lived with me, I probably had to tell her 20 times to shut and lock her bedroom windows when she left the house. She would be gone for days before I realized she left her window(s) unlocked or opened. Her room was the front of the house, so it would have been very easy for someone to get in.

One evening after several months of this, I called her as I always would and told her I was going in her room to lock her window. When I went in the room, I found a pot pipe, among personal belongings of mine that she had taken. When she came home the next day or so, I confronted her with finding the pipe and pot. The old, "It's not mine", she told me. I told her she needed to move.

Out of the six months she was here, she paid rent on time once. One of the months she was late, she paid as late as 19 days late. I never charged her a late fee. She was the roommate from hell.

I'm not going to tell you about the nights she came home stumbling drunk and the time she was too wasted to make it in the house, slept on the porch, pulled all her clothes off and woke up in the morning naked. Nice. Real nice.

[RoomMinistrator]

There are two sides to every story, and no one is perfect, especially when faced with less than perfect behavior on the part of others. If you present your case such that you are/were 100% PERFECT and the other 100% EVIL, you will just be less believable. Even if your only sin was not letting them know in a timely fashion how disturbing their behavior really was, you probably did something . . . right? Maybe? C'mon.

This is a new area and we don't have any roommate rants to share just yet. But you can posts yours in the forum, and if we like it, we'll even post in the other area of the site as well. We can give you author attribution or not, your choice. Wanna be one of the first to see your story up in lights? Something to show the folks back home? Or . . . an ex-roommate?