I'm literally writing this post in an attempt to save a lot of people time, a headache, and friendships. I've had 4 different sets of roommates and they all ended up the same, disaster.
Roommate #1
(We will name her Kelsey) Kelsey was a girl that I went to school with and we became goot friends in high school and ended up moving in together in a condo that my dad bought for me to live in while I went to school in Orlando. Everything was fine and dandy for the first couple of weeks. After a while she got depressed about how her girlfriend was in the army and she couldn't see her all the time like she used to be able to and she got all weird. She would invite people over and tell them that they could stay for as long as they wanted and they could use our washer and dryer. I confronted her and told her that this was not alright with me and she freaked out and started moving out that day.
Roommate #2
(Let's name this couple Billy and Betty) The two of them moved in about 5 months later and ended up only staying for about 2 months. They were really cool in the beginning we hung out a little bit. Billy was a little dense but it was tolerable. Well my fiance has a health condition where being around any type of smoke actually makes him sicker and we told them that and we came home multiple times to them smoking weed in our house. We confronted them and told them to stop multiple times and they never did they just waited till we left and opened the windows to smoke. They ruined all of our dishes, broke doors, broke the washer, ruined the tile, ruined the walls, trashed the bathroom, and tore up our garden. We asked them to leave and did, thankfully.
Roommate #3
(Freddy) This guy was from Jersey. He was probably the best one we had ever had. He told us that he was going to help out and do all these things with us. Everything was great till my fiance went to Boston to visit family. When my boyfriend left he told Freddy that he would leave the keys to his car and he could come pick him up if I had to be at school that day. Well one night we went to Walmart with two of my friends Chelsea and Dom. Dom asked who was picking up Chris and Freddy jumped in and said "I am" I looked at Freddy and told him that I wasn't comfortable with him driving Chris's car because it had a mechanical problem and I wasn't sure that he would know how to handle it if it messed up. Chelsea then said that she would pick him up because she didn't have to be in school that day (and I didn't have school at the time his plane landed either). Later that night I get a call from my fiance saying that Freddy called him and complained about me for 30 minutes on the phone about how I told him that I told him he wasn't allowed to pick Chris up and how we were going to leave him at the airport. I laughed it off and figured he was just being a little baby. Well I was right...he never talked to me again. When Chris got back he would invite Chris out and leave me out and tell Chris all these lies about how I was mean to him and all this crap. The one thing he forgot about was the fact that I was never alone when I went out with him and all my friends had the same story as me. Well Chris and I had to make a trip to Boston a couple weeks after he got back and we asked him to walk, feed, and play with our rottweilier puppy for a couple day and he agreed. Well when we got back the house smelled like crap our puppy was soaked in pee and there was broken glass in the kitchen. He hadn't even been there other than to party and walk our puppy two times a day after we explained to him that she would need to be walked more than just twice because she's only 11 weeks old and can't hold her bladder that long. Anyways, one day before August started he told us some long sob story about how he wouldn't be able to afford next months rent and had to leave. He was out that night while Chris and I were asleep.
Ohhhh Roommate #4
(Julie will be her name) This girl was awesome! She signed a sublease with me for a month to month lease that said that there would be a $700 deposit and $700 plue electric would be paid to me on the 1st. She was alright till we moved. Sadly we weren't able to get all of the furniture out of the condo before we had to move and we had to leave a couch, 2 chairs, 2 lamps, a bookcase, and a dresser in the condo because we couldn't get anyone to come and pick them up. Well she harassed me about them and told me she was going to sue me! I told her that everything was posted on Craigslist and I was really sorry but not everything got picked up but that I would keep sending people her way after I moved to pick up the furniture. We then informed her that the internet guy would be coming out to disconnect the internet that was in our name (and we later found out that she told them that they had the wrong address so that she could keep the internet for free because it was under out name). She's been trying to sue me over things of this nature and it's been getting ridiculous. She talks about how she doesn't have any money to pay for the rent and such but if you look at her Facebook she's going out drinking and such, no wonder you don't have any money! She's been there for under a month and she's already broken the AC and she's complaining to me about how I need to call the guy who put it in when I told her that you're responsible for all repairs this isn't like an apartment complex where we have maintenance this is a privately owned condo complex.
Seriously all I can say to those people that have roommates is "GOOD LUCK!" It just isn't worth it in the end. I don't have any cups, plates, or silverware any more. Everything gets stolen or ruined.
