They Invited a New Friend to Be Their College Roommate—Then the Chaos Started
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Roommates are important for helping to split the bills and make life easier, but they can also be a nightmare.
What would you do if you and a couple of friends rented a place for college, but it had an extra room, so you invited one more person to be a roommate, and she turned out to be a nightmare?
That is what happened to the friends in this story, and things just kept going from bad to worse to the point where it is almost unbelievable.
Read through the full story below and see what you would have done in their situation.
How can you be that much of a bad roommate..???
In junior year of college, my friends Joe, Emily, and I decided to move in together, but we needed a fourth roommate.
A bad roommate can be intolerable.
Emily was friends with this girl named Sarah, so we let her move in. BIGGEST MISTAKE OF OUR LIVES OMG.
Within a few months, things completely went off the rails. Emily, joe, and I kept noticing things missing, like my boots and other random items.
This girl is awful.
We brushed it off at first, but my intuition finally kicked in, so I decided to look under Sarah’s bathroom cabinets and found all of our stuff hidden there. To top it off, Emily had a pet camera in her room for her dog and caught Sarah stealing. She confronted her, yet Sarah didn’t learn her lesson and did it again.
About six months in, Sarah got a brand new boyfriend. Literally not even a month into dating, he already moved into her room completely, which was a direct violation of the lease (we lived in off campus student living so the leases are separate by bedroom).
They should not let this new guy move in.
He brought his dog (which never got registered to her room) that wasn’t potty trained, and it ruined our carpets with massive black pee stains all the way from the stairs to her door.
That dog eventually had puppies, meaning there were a total of SEVEN unregistered animals destroying our apartment. Also, her boyfriend’s dog chewed up my boots, and I only found out through Emily because Sarah never had the decency to tell me.
Things have gotten way out of hand.
In addition to that, Sarah’s boyfriend would let his friends, STRANGERS TO US, sleep on our couch in the living room. It wasn’t even his apartment. They never once asked if we were okay with it.
It felt like our downstairs was a homeless shelter. We didn’t feel comfortable in our own home. Imagine walking downstairs to do laundry and seeing a complete stranger passed out on your couch.
Honestly, this type of problem should be easy to prove.
The office couldn’t even do anything because it technically didn’t violate any rules since they weren’t there for more than 2 days.. And if they were there for longer, there wasn’t a way to prove it.
Before the boyfriend even moved in, sarah had no concept of privacy. Emily had a long distance boyfriend, and whenever he visited, Sarah would constantly barge into emily’s locked room, and even went in there when emily was at class. She actually broke emily’s door lock doing it and literally never left emily alone.
Why don’t these people tell her no?
On top of all that, neither Sarah nor her boyfriend had cars, so they constantly begged me, Joe, and Emily for rides. It quickly turned into entitlement, always starting texts with asking what we were doing or if we were working just to hit us up for a favor.
Occasionally, she would offer to pay or buy us starbucks, so that we would say yes, but literally never did.
They definitely should not trust her to pay.
Me, Joe, and Emily all moved out in may, while sarah and her boyfriend stayed until the official lease ended in july. Before leaving, we had asker for to take responsibility for the carpet damages in writing, so that the three of us wouldn’t get charged for damages we didn’t cause, which she agreed to do.
Now, the final move out statement hit us all with a $200+ charge each because she ended up not actually claiming responsibility, and is now telling us it’s just normal wear and tear, so that we should all try to fight the charge.
Sarah should be paying for the carpet.
When I tried cleaning the stains myself, dog pee literally lifted up on the paper towel because they never throughly cleaned it out of the carpet.
Also, mind you, the stairs to the third floor (which the dog never went up) was literally spotless, so how are you gonna say it’s normal wear and tear when the dirty black stains LITERALLY forms a path directly to your bedroom door?
And I thought things couldn’t get worse.
As if all of that wasn’t enough, Emily and the rest of us had our bedroom doors locked. Me and Joe had fully moved out and gave in our keys, while Emily still had some stuff in her room that she planned to bring back home in July and give her keys in then.
Remember the pet camera I mentioned earlier? Well, she got a notification on her phone saying it detected motion. So she checked it, and saw that sarah’s boyfriend’s friend, who we’ve literally never seen before, had broken into emily’s locked room, went through her stuff, got completely naked, and started ‘doing things’ in her bed.
It is good that they are going to take her to court.
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So, right now we’re currently waiting to see if she will take responsibility for the carpet. If not we’re gonna take her to small claims court.
And once that’s settled we can’t wait to block her and erase her from our mind and life 🤍
Wow, what a nightmare that they are going through. This shows clearly why it is so important to choose your roommates wisely.
Check out what the people in the comments have to say about what happened.
Why weren’t they filing complaints from the beginning?
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This commenter makes a good point.
They should have filed complaints with the landlord far sooner. Especially since they had some of it on video.
The issue with the dog should have been an easy thing to prove as well, since I’m sure they weren’t allowed to have pets.
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