It’s awkward when you disagree with roommates about how to use your common spaces. But before you can do anything about it, you need to measure the impact.

Check out one thing you should be concerned about and why.

Always in the shared space

I haven’t said anything to her yet but I feel like I might say something soon. But then again do I even have the right?

We each pay individual room rent to the agency, but the shared space utility bill is divided equally.

No harmony in the shared space! I can’t imagine. I’m always in my bedroom.

We see 4 people living in one apartment with separate rooms. But this one girl is just ALWAYS in the shared space using the electricity.

She doesn’t go inside her room unless she needs to sleep at night. During the day she sleeps on the sofas in the shared space.

The shared space includes a kitchen+dining table in one corner of the room and the opposite 2 sofas.

They need to be able meter usage and bring that to the agency.

It’s not a large space so when two people are there it feels stuffy.

But my problem is that this girl is single handedly raising the electricity prices by using the shared space for EVERYTHING. She even dries her hair in the shared space instead of our room like others.

I know this is a shared space and she is entitled to use it as much as I’m entitled to it.

But I feel really annoyed that even tho I am not using the space at all, I still have to pay the shared utility bill for it.

I really feel the agency needs to be made aware. Otherwise why rent this way?

The other two housemates share the same annoyance but they are not confrontational, so they are NOT gonna speak about it with her.

Even now she’s charging her phone, laptop, iPpad using all different sockets.

The electricity bill is coming out higher every month and I didn’t figure out the reason earlier why but now I think it may be because of this.

Here is what folks are saying.

This is what I would do if I would want her to stop sleeping on their couch.

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This is the part I didn’t understand.

Great insight. Air conditioning really adds up.

Apartment resident is fed up with her roommate hogging the common areas, so she tries to find an argument to make it stop.