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Man…come on!

I know we all change our minds about things from time to time, but it’s so frustrating when you come to an agreement with someone…and then they change their mind and screw everything up.

Ugh!

The guy who wrote the story you’re about to read isn’t thrilled that one of his future roommates decided to change his mind…after they signed the lease.

Read on, and see what you think about this situation.

Roommate changed his mind about paying more for the largest room after signing the lease.

“I’m currently having a disagreement with one of my future roommates about how we should split the rent.

Three of us found a 3-bedroom, 3-bathroom townhouse together. One of the bedrooms is significantly larger than the other two.

The townhouse has three floors: two bedrooms and two bathrooms are on the second floor, while the third floor is basically a private suite with its own bedroom and bathroom.

The third-floor room is around 2 to 2.5 times larger than the other rooms.

Sounds like a deal!

Before signing the lease with the property management company, we agreed that the roommate taking the largest room would pay an extra $200 per month. Our agreed rent split was $900, $700, and $700.

However, about a week after all three of us signed the lease, that roommate changed his mind.

He now says he does not need the larger space and wants either to take one of the smaller rooms and pay $700, or to reduce the additional $200 he agreed to pay.

Come on, dude…

His argument is that the lease we signed with the property management company does not specify how the rent should be divided among us, and we have not signed a separate formal agreement regarding the room assignments and rent split.

We are all students and met through a roommate-matching platform provided by our university.

We have only met in person once to discuss the housing arrangement, so we do not know each other very well yet.

This has turned into a problem…

The roommates who agreed to pay $700 for the smaller rooms do not want to switch to the larger room and pay $900 instead.

I also cannot comfortably afford any additional increase in my monthly housing expenses.

What would be the fairest way to handle this situation?

Should our original agreement still be respected since it was part of the reason we decided to sign the lease, or should we renegotiate the room assignments and rent split?”

Readers on Reddit shared their thoughts.

This person weighed in.

Another individual didn’t hold back.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another person spoke up.

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And this reader weighed in.

Well, that wasn’t cool!

And it sounds like this living situation is already off to a bad start.

What a bummer!

This guy really threw a wrench into their plans!