Hello Roseline,Interesting little idea you have here. I moved LESS than a month ago. The woman I moved in with was cordial, friendly and considerate for the first 2 days. After that, it has been a NIGHTMARE! I have never felt so unwelcome anywhere!
She SLAMS the doors really hard, uses the washer as her personal hamper so I have to ASK to do laundry, never moved one single cup or plate so that I could put my own cups in the cabinet. She has a dog and so do I. After I moved in, I found out that her dog has an eating disorder. He eats EVERYTHING that gets put down! And she encourages his begging at the table. I have to feed both my dog and myself in my bedroom and if I don't remember to put my dog's food UP, hers will come trolling and eat it all. She says I stress too much about it but how else will I know if my own dog is healthy and eating if I don't keep an eye on her food intake?
She keeps the TV on 10. The volume is so loud that I can't hear my own TV in my room unless I turn it up uncomfortably LOUD myself! She keeps the vacuum cleaner in her room so that I have to ASK for it when I want to clean my room. And if she's not here, of course I would never violate her space, so I have to wait till she gets home to do my own cleaning. Oh yeah, she has never given me a key to the house and keeps the garage door key in her car (the garage is used for storage and not for cars). I have things stored in the garage. I can't get to them unless of course she's home and I ASK her when she's in a good mood. I don't drink...she slams down a bottle of wine a day (which I had no idea about b/4 moving).
The list goes on...it sounds like small things but there are so many of them. I feel like an intruder here. This is not how it was supposed to be...
Wahhh!
Of course I am now looking around for a different place...
Monday, November 27, 2006
I have never felt so unwelcome anywhere!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
I have two horrible experiences....
I'm female, and my first roomy seemed cool at first. The first day I moved in I realized I'd made a big mistake, but I can't talk about that whole thing pending court action against him, so I'll tell you after I win!
The guy I'm living with now is a total freaking slob! Absolutely disgusting. I am the only one in 2 months who has cleaned the kitchen. He also collects the trash in the garage instead of paying the 5 bucks a month for the trash people to take it. I have found many spiders in this place, along with tons of spiderwebs. He never vaccuums. He uses my stuff without asking, and one day I come home and he puts a lock over the thermostat so I couldn't use it. He likes to freeze me out. Luckily I am moving out of this hell hole next week, and I tell you, guys are slobs and I am never rooming with them again! I learned my lesson, get your own place!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Casey said...
My coworker and I decided to rent together, and that's where things went wrong. First, he claimed to make about $10,000 a year more than he actually does. So, for his sake, we got a third roommate. Then, because he had a two-week vacation, he proposed that he only pay half a month's rent. That was quickly vetoed, but things only got worse.
This guy hangs out with a bunch of giggly girls that are 4-5 yrs younger and invites them over to drink our beer and wine (take into account that these girls are underage) and run around the house like a pack of wild idiots. To make things worse, these girls are really ugly and socially inept. Once, I came home late and found that they had run through my bedroom, leaving hacky sacks all over the floor (they were playing some hacky-sack dodgeball tag thing all night. weird.)
If you're going to go into somebody else's room, at least try to hide the evidence, you dunce.
This guy is also really dirty. My sister came over and accidentally sat in a pile of this guy's toe nail clippings, because he had left them all over the couch. When confronted, he accused me of being whiny. Now the question is, why did I decide to room with this mongoloid to begin with? Well, he's a liar. He agreed with all my opinions and told me he liked all the same things that I did when we were getting to know each other. Then, the story changed as he met new people. I don't think this guy really has a defined personality or a spine.
I kicked him out after 4 months.
At 1:23 AM, Anonymous said…
I had a roomate that stole my dirty underwear out of the hamper and would wear them DIRTY! GROSS! Not that I would ever wear them again. I would find them in the huge pil of dirty laubdry in the middle of her room (this thing was huge it was taller then me. When I did find them I discovered she turned the crouch area of black underwear orange. Like dyed them. That is pretty nasty.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
sugarmaple12 said...
I had one hell of a horrible roommate when I first moved to Denver.
We met through Craigslist (of course, because I didn't know anyone) I moved into a 2 bedroom dump that was fair in price. I figured it was a good way to meet some new people by having someone else moving in..... yeah right.
So, I met this girl (We'll call her V) who seemed really nice. Obviously spoiled rotten to hell. Her mommy paid for half her rent (which was $450 incl utils!!!) Trust fund baby- who abused her funds, and worked at whole foods. She claimed she was a "good girl" who had a BF in some other state- yet was messing around with one of our neighbors.
I told V (before she moved in) that my cat would be moving here in a couple of weeks when I was planning a trip home to the east coast. My cat is so great (and i'm more of a dog person- i like cats, but would rather have a dog)She's indoor/outdoor, doesn't need a litter box, and keeps to herself. V claimed that she was allergic, but would deal with it. I asked her if she was sure about that statement. "Oh yeah, I'll be fine." OOOOOkkkkaaaaayyyy- I warned her!
Well needless to say, she wasn't ok with it. V instantly became bitchy. Never spoke to me, never was around. So I asked her if everything was alright and if there was anything I could do to help her (SEVERAL TIMES) "Everything's fine, I'm just tired and I've got a lot of stuff going on." That was one of her daily sayings. BUT- when she was around- she would pick up my cat and nuzzle her head into her face. ARE YOU KIDDING ME???!!! And you say youre allergic??
My friends/neighbors had witness her abusing my cat several times and of course I confronted her about- she denied, naturally.
Wait- theres more. She had a dog. A yipping dust mop piece of shit (don't get me wrong- I LOVE dogs- jsut not this one) Now mind you, we didnt have a yard in this apt. So since V was never around, the dog NEVER went outside. Meaning I would come home to dog piss and poo everywhere- the kicker is that the dog insisted to shit in my room. I'm sure V loved this. I explained to her that she was neglecting her dog and that she didnt deserve it. It's just plain abuse. SHe would come home from a long day of work, not take the dog out, and crash for the night. This dog was inside for over 18 hours without going outside. (I should have called animal control on her ass!) Anf this happened for about 2 months- this is no one shot deal here people. HELLO!!! It's called responsibility!! YOU wanted the DOG- YOU have to take it OUT. Not me! I don't mind helping out every once in a while- no prob. But when it becomes daily, several times a day- thats a little rediculous.
Now to top it all off, I came home one day (2 days before rent was due) and she packed up all her shit and moved out while I was at work!!! No warning, no 1 months notice- NOTHING.... except a note. This note that V wrote to me said that I did nothing to help her with her allergies, I was very inconciderate, and basically that I was a horrible person. It also said that she had told our landlord everything, and he said for me to deal with everything. UMMMMMMM right- I called the landlord that instant, and he said that he was trying to get a hold of her for weeks because she never paid the dog deposit. So he allowed me to use her rent deposit for Dec. rent. Thank goodness.
That bitch- she's forever out of my life... her and her little dog too!
HOw about SEVERAL stories?
My job, as night manager, was to close the store at night, and I did so at about 12 midnight that night.
Next day, early in the morning, I get a call from my irate boss wodering where the *@#$ are the deposits? So,. I had to drive about 15 miles to work that morning and I could not find the deposits either. MY roommate, had entered the shop at 2 a.m. that morning and took the deposits and told security that he was me!
Then, two years later, ANOTHER employee from the same work asked me to come live with him, I foolishly accepted. He was a brown belt in karate. Everything was fine, until after 3 months, he moved his gay uncle and his boyfriend into the apartment, while they were having noisy gay sex, I wanted out of the apartment!! So, my roommate, after kicking me in the stomach a few times, told me he was leaving and took all my furniture with him!
My third roommate was a young lady who LOVED Michael Jackson and Princess Di. She also loved MANY men She invited a strange man EVERY week! I got tired of it and moved out!
My other roommates were drunken fools and I even had a squatter move in and I tried everything legal and ILlegal to extricate him
I finally ended up losing my apartment and most of my belongings
laws protect squatters!
Drugs...
Okay I allowed this girl to stay at my house because she said she was homeless. Me being the trusting short and feeling bad for her, I buy it hook line and sinker and let her stay. At first things are great, but then the real demond comes out and it turns out shes a crack addict. Well to even make things worse she's a crack additct with a crack dealer boyfriend. These two need to be noted and stopped. Now that shes out she has posted two new ads under rooms wanted for Sunday 10/24/06 they read will clean for rent and need a place relly bad. Watch out for her!! It's a con game in major play and they are working the Las Vegas area really hard. I don't need to explain what happends when you bring a crack addict into your home, I'm sur you get the piture. I hope this gets post everywhere on Craigs list. These two are going to hurt someone some day.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
Drinking story
My room mate (female) had a chemist boyfriend that made some high-end hooch and beer. I was thirsty after a long, tedious day at work and I saw in the fridge some purple liquid in small plastic pop bottles and poured one on ice and sipped it and thought they were pretty good so I went to grab another and was getting HAMMERED off the stuff. She had come home and I went to inquire what that stuff was and she said it was like 60% proof and that you are supose to mix it. Oh! I noticed she had a mid-riff T on and never knew if she had navel jewelery. She was making a mix for herself and I just blurted out if she had any navel piercings and she turned around and I touched her stomach and she sighed and she sucked in her stomach as I knew it was an invite to move my hand down lower. Yummy.... True story - and within 10 minutes I had her doggy-style in my room. I woke up the next day (late) and apologized and we both agreed it was the alcohol and what happened should be kept between us. I never drank that purple stuff again.
Rod
Thursday, October 19, 2006
My God..
Since Day 1, I could tell that we would probably not get along all that well. For one thing, I'm not afraid to say what I feel.. if I have a problem with someone I usually tell them on the spot. I don't go behind their back to pretend like they don't exist. The FIRST issue: She watches T.V. at 4am to sleep through "noise" outside the dorm... Apparently she can't stand random noise... she wants them constant... yeah, right. So I talked to her about it and problem solved... I can lower or turn off the T.V. FOR her if she's asleep. SECOND issue: we have one large window where the noise comes in in the morning b/c the garbage trucks here in NYc are ridiculously loud... so I closed the window b/c I remembered that she hated it.
She gets mad and says she doesn't like closing the window. Ok... so now we leave it open BUT she no longer sleeps with the T.V. THIRD issue: Her phone manners. I'm studying... she's screaming at the phone as if the person's 50 ft. away from her. OR I'm watching a movie with a friend and she's doing that annoying screaming that I had just mentioned. FINALLY: Her tone of voice.... sarcasm through and through... yeah, it sounds like she's trying to be compliant, but she's actually plotting something in that devious mind of hers... She had the nerve to say to me one day "I don't appreciate you being rude to me..." I should be saying that to her! Besides who the hell appreciates being insulted by a rude person... and Excuse me but I am NOT a rude preson."
Monday, October 16, 2006
I'm having flashbacks reading this...
One of my old roomates used to leave food all over the kitchen. Now, I wasn't the cleanest person, either, but I would clean up my mess before bed. Well, she didn't think she ever needed to clean up her stuff, and I walked in late one night, after working until close at a restaurant, and found our kitchen and most of our living room filled with ROACHES. And she was sleeping peacefully in her bed - completely unconcerned. I made enough racket cleaning it up that she came out to ask me to be quiet because she was trying to sleep. Nice. Oh, and her boyfriend smoked clove cigarettes - by the pack - right in the middle of our apartment. It took forever to get that smell out of there..
Another roommate had a cat. The cat was very sweet, but my roommate *never* cleaned out the litter box. So, the cat would relieve itself in other areas of the apartment. I consider this serious pet neglect and felt really sorry for the poor cat. After cleaning up several messes myself, I asked her to clean it up one day, and she huffed and walked away. I think the litter box was cleaned a month later or so....