My roommate and I were on our second year of our lease that we renewed last august. (2 bed 1 bath) This past January he got a new job where he would be out of the apartment for weeks at a time doing training and would only make it back on occasional weekends. After training the company could place him basically anywhere in the country for two years, and he didn't find out where that would be until March. Obviously he kept the apt. till then because he had all his stuff here and there was a chance he got relocated back to Indy and he still came back every now and then. In the middle of March he found out he would be moving to Florida.

He sort of wanted to break the lease right then. We took a look at the papers and to break the lease you had to give 2 months notice and then after 2 months you had to pay and addition 2 months rent. So essentially breaking the lease cost 4 months rent for being able to live there 2 months. He said he would take care of the majority of the two month fee... but i was still looking for jobs in indy and told him that 4 months essentially brings us right into the middle of august anyways. So it costs him essentially the same just to keep paying rent and let me take over utilities.

After he moved to florida he mentioned several times subletting his half of the apt. out. I kept shrugging my shoulders and saying whatever if you can find a cool person or something. He put up a fake craiglist ad on our apt and would forward me the funny replies that he would get. (gay couple wanting to share on of the rooms, 45 year old woman looking to move in, etc)

Fast forward to sunday. He came back for the weekend to visit his GF that still lives in indy. He came over for a short while. He mentioned that there were some people legit interested in subletting the apt and he was thinking about showing it to them, but he wouldnt if i took over half his rent. I said I wasnt going to pay for him not to live here, that didnt make since to me. and if he could find someone ok to live here that would be fine. The next day (monday) at work, i get a text saying that he was showing the apt to some people. Later while stilll at work i get another text that just says "your new roommate's name is George". At first i think he is joking but I slowly come to realize he legit subletted his part of the apt without me ever meeting this guy.

I send him a text back and tell him that all my shit had been stolen when i got back to the apt. This was sort of a prank but also wanted to see his reaction. He completely bought it. He was texting on the plane back to florida at this point and said he would call me when he landed. I asked wtf was this guys name even... his reply was "his name is george lastname.... but thats probably fake though" So.. thats how much I know about my new roommate who now has a key to my apt. I get a call from my former roommates gf (who is freaking out because she thinks i was robbed) and i learn that actually SHE met this guy and gave him keys the apt, my roommate never even met this guy and only talked to him over the phone from a response from a craigslist ad. I was defintly half expecting at some point all my shit being gone. Also... how desperate is this guy looking for a place if he doesnt even want to meet his roommate.

This guy showed up last night at some point while i was sleeping. I still havnt seen him at all, and have no idea what to expect. I dont even care if this guy ends up being cool... you dont sublet the apt. without at least letting the other person in the double meet first. Do I have any plays here? should i try to make him think im a weirdo?? (i was thinking about tying a belt to the shower curtain rod and just "accidently" leaving it there.) Should I just go with it and make the best of it? comment OT.

Cliffs:
Roommate moves out.
Sublets to craigslist stranger we both never met.

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

Lol. My two roomates graduated a year ahead of me and subleted their room without me and the other roomate ever meeting them. All he told us is that we were going to hate them lol.

He was right, he subleted our room to a guy and girl that were engaged. Two biggest nerds ever and also the weirdest situation ever. They would cook dinner for themselves and have like a nice meal at our kitchen table (all open space and connected to the livibg room area) while me and my other roomate sat on the couch drinking 40s and eating straight out of the pizza box that we would sit next to us on the couch.

When their friends or fam showed up... it was even worse.

I maybe said 10 words to them during the 6 months our leases overlapped.

Thats Hilarious

Yea at least we had two bathrooms, so we didbt have to deal with them about that.

My roomate did have one slight altercation with the new guy, but he was such a pussy, that he never fucked up again lol.

 

Originally Posted by Autolobotomist

You owe a dude in Florida an ass whooping.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Never fucked with them too much. Just acting inappropriate when they were attemptin to act like grown up while we actinh like idiot college kids are supposed to.

I still remember walkin into the apartment one day with a handle and a 30 pack. I turn the corner to go into the kitchen and like 7 of their family members were all standing there. I felt so awkward. But fuck them. I put my shit in the fridge, crack a beer, then said, "have a nice day guys." And i walk out of the room.

Im sure they were just judging the shit out of me lol.

 

Originally Posted by Jaybone2315

Lol. My two roomates graduated a year ahead of me and subleted their room without me and the other roomate ever meeting them. All he told us is that we were going to hate them lol.

He was right, he subleted our room to a guy and girl that were engaged. Two biggest nerds ever and also the weirdest situation ever. They would cook dinner for themselves and have like a nice meal at our kitchen table (all open space and connected to the livibg room area) while me and my other roomate sat on the couch drinking 40s and eating straight out of the pizza box that we would sit next to us on the couch.

When their friends or fam showed up... it was even worse.

I maybe said 10 words to them during the 6 months our leases overlapped.

A few years back I was living with my boy who I've known my whole life in a small house he owned with 3 beds/2ba. All was cool when it was just me and him but he started hurting for money and rented out the last bedroom to some dude he knew from work (both musicians in DC). I wasn't too pleased to hear this as my quiet side and bathroom would now be shared by some stranger.

The moment I met this guy I knew it was gonna be a disaster. He claimed to be straight and have a gf but sure could have fooled me. He dressed like a mix of Tom Brady and elton John and had these queer whispy frosted-blonde bangs that he would constantly flip back out of his eyes (think justin beiber hair but bangs longer and whispier).

He was a low- talker so much to the point that I couldn't hear his ghey-lisp voice even if he was a foot away from me and when I first met him and shook his freakishly sweaty hand, he gave me a mixture of the deadfish and the handshake female royalty gives, as if I was gonna kiss his filthy cum stained hands.

I swear to god our first conversation he is bitching like some high school chick about his face breaking out and im pretending to be a nice guy and that i give a fuck until he says that since nothing is clearing up his face, he might have to splash some urine on it..........I'm really stoned and can barely hear this faggot but I'm pretty sure he just told me that he was gonna wash his face in urine. I kinda chuckle and mutter something to alleviate the silent awkardness in the room now all the while thinking he's making some weird unfunny joke. He then goes on to start listing why urine fights acne and he's 100% dead serious!!!! I try not to make it obvious that I hate him and am on the verge of vomiting and quickly find an excuse to get out of there.

At this time, I'm grinding online to pay the bills and pretty much had the house to myself for the past 6 months to blaze and play poker all day but obv as soon as faggo moves in he puts an end to my comfortable living situation. First, he's playing some sort of musical instrument at all hours of day and night - be it guitar, trumpet, keyboard, or just singing in his abysmal eunuch-like voice. He's also constantly coming into my room asking to borrow a book or DVD or something with the bullshit I'll just knock as I open the door unannounced(I obv assume he's just trying to bust in on me changing or jerking it or something). So I begin to spend 75% of my days outside the house, playing cards at others places and getting drunk every night in an attempt to escape the reality of my living situation.

3 weeks goes by and faggo claims that his gf is gonna be moving in with him into his tiny bedroom and hooray for me I get to share a bathroom with both these tools. Obviously I'm pissed and considering bailing on my boy and the lease but at the same time I'm very curious to meet faggot's "girlfriend". When I question my buddy he says it'll be better cuz he's getting more money and she'll clean and shit...

When I first met her I was shocked cuz she was actually decent looking. Skinny, brunette with a decent face and no body and obv a weirdo hippie. By the time she moves all her shit in the house, there is no longer any living space in the main TV room. She's brought in easels for painting, antique musical instruments, weird wicker furniture (despite their being no place for it), etc.

So now I'm living next to some queer and his beard and although I hate both of them with a passion for robbing me of my solitude, part of me wants to try to nail this weird bitch and see what happens with her pretend boyfriend. That all changed about 3 days into our new living situation. After the duo stank up the entire house cooking some disgusting vegan meal that smelled like a combo of rancid split pea soup and curry, she gets into the shower. My bedroom door faced the door to the bathroom so if both doors were open you'd be able to see into both rooms. Well I'm at my PC in my room with the door open when she gets out of the shower wearing nothing but a towel. I look up and see her adjusting the towel and start to think sweet maybe ill get to see vegan-weirdo naked...

instead what I see are a pair of the hairiest legs I've ever seen on a woman in my life and as she lifts one of her arms up, you guessed it, full on bush under her arm. So obv freakish weirdo hippie vegan artist cunt doesn't shave her body hair in some sort of silent tribute to her fallen feminists or something.

Between the delightful aromas being concocted in our kitchen, the early morning jam sessions, and the urine face washing discussions I'm beginning to look for a new spot to live. The straw that broke the camels back came within the next week or so. I'd been noticing ever since 'gf' moved in that our shared bathroom toilet seemed to be filled with piss almost every time I went in there. At first I gave the benefit of the doubt, maybe one of the freaks pissed before showering and forgot to flush or something. However, I began to observe a weird phenomenon as I sat at my comp grinding away all day. Every single time, the hairy vegan bitch would take a piss (and I knew she was pissing cuz I was 10 feet away and the sound of her urine hitting the toilet water had twice the decibel level of her gay pal's voice) she would wash her hands and leave the bathroom but the toilet would never flush.

Clearly, she was not flushing the toilet! Why would someone not flush the toilet? I assumed it had something to do with her enviro-friendly ideology and she was saving water (despite the fact that she spent an hour in the shower twice a day and wasn't even shaving her legs). But maybe it was some strategic plan to produce acne-fighting face wash. Since I was home most of the day with her (she was unemployed or an artist as she called it) I would immed flush the toilet after she left the bathroom and she knew what I was doing even though I didn't speak to her or her bf at this point. On days when I would leave the house for more than a few hours, I'd come back and find the toilet filled with a mustard-yellow colored piss bc in the time i was gone she prob pissed ten times into the same toilet without flushing...

So after about a month of living with these two creatures, i moved out and really do not speak to my boy at all anymore after he stuck me with those pee-hording freaks.

 

Originally Posted by snizzow

When does your lease end? July 31st? You have like 6 weeks. I think you will be okay.

End of august. Still Havnt met this guy yet.

My roomie and I needed to fill our downstairs room and resorted to craigslist since everyone we knew had already found their place for the school year. Our rent is pretty high but our place is sick, it is a 750,000$ townhome that we rent (we are the only renters on whole strip of these homes and they are basically right on campus). Anyways, we found a guy off craigslist who actually has turned out to be a pretty great roommate. He's 22, went to U of Texas, has a sick engineering job, has meh annoying gf whose not hot at all stay by him a lot, which makes no sense because she works in NY but apparently also works here some weeks. He is a good guy though and keeps to himself, couldn't really ask for a better find.

few things...

he maybe be a RM that comes in heads to room stays there till he leaves....good room mate but not a friend..

should of ask the x-room mate GF to move in...

meet the new guy,might be cool...

hope it works out OTbro...

the next time luho comes at me about making his eyes bleed i am going to refer him to this jewel

36crazyfists

"A few years back I was living with my boy who I've known my whole life in a small house he owned with 3 beds/2ba. All was cool when it was just me and him but he started hurting ..
Clearly, she was not flushing the toilet! ..."

etc etc

dear lord

Ten years ago I responded to an ad because I got a job on the North Shore of Boston and lived on the South Shore at the time. She(not a good looking girl) was looking for a single female non smoker lol. I responded anyway and I ended up renting a room from her in a sweet condo. I consider myself really easy to live with and probably too laid back if anything. I lived with her for around a year and she said I was the best roommate she ever had.

With that said. One night I got off work and made some food put some dishes in the sink. Nothing crazy just a few dishes. Then I went to bed thinking I would do the dishes in the morning.

The chick was pretty fucking anal about keeping the place clean which is understandable so I guess me leaving a few dishes in the sink set her off. She thought it would be a good idea to take the dishes out of the sink and leave them outside my bedroom door for me to almost trip over the next morning. Pretty fucking smart thinking iyam lol. She owned the condo and the rug she put the dishes on. Probably better off in the sink, no?

People are pretty god damn quirky sometimes.

I just rented a room in Macau for 7 weeks. The girl I rented the room from returned to main land China because she is off of school for the summer. She gave me the key before I met my other 2 roommates. Seemed normal to me but guess I am just weird.

My roommates are chill but they never see me because I go to the casino til 6am and then sleep all day.

 

Originally Posted by playwithfire05

There were groceries in the fridge this morning including a case of fat tire with a note that it is a house warming gift....

Sounds like the perfect roommate