Tenant spends $300 taking roommate’s visibly sick cat to the emergency vet while owner is out of town, owner refuses repayment because she “didn’t ask first”: ‘He was yowling in pain’

What exactly are you supposed to do when your roommate’s cat suddenly starts acting really strange while they’re completely unreachable? This roommate suddenly found herself stuck in a very awkward situation only a couple of months after moving in. The cat started behaving unusually, constantly hanging around the litter box and acting distressed, while the …
Seguir leyendo Tenant spends $300 taking roommate’s visibly sick cat to the emergency vet while owner is out of town, owner refuses repayment because she “didn’t ask first”: ‘He was yowling in pain’

Unemployed woman refuses to wake up for 1pm job interview, chews out roommate for not waking her up: ‘I’m not her caretaker’

At a certain age, it is your responsibility to wake yourself up when you need to be up.  We should all have more grace for each other. We’re all trying to figure it out, and nobody has it perfectly nailed down. We’re all running around doing the best we can, just trying to make it …
Seguir leyendo Unemployed woman refuses to wake up for 1pm job interview, chews out roommate for not waking her up: ‘I’m not her caretaker’

Woman forbids roommate from using shared office space for 2-3 hours/day, claims she’s having ‘confidential’ meetings

What if your own roommate locked you out of your shared space? Roommates are not always easy to deal with, even if you have a semi-normal working relationship. Maybe you both keep to yourselves and make sure your areas are clean, but that doesn’t mean you won’t run into conflict. Stuff is bound to come …
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‘Started paying closer attention’: Man notices his food disappearing and being oddly replaced with similar items, sets trap with a marked bag of chips, confirming his roommate, Jake, is secretly eating his food and using his Costco discount to replace it

Do things ever happen to you in life, and the only thing you can think of is…Why? Now, commonly, situations have a clear reasoning for why they are occurring. You get married because you want to spend the rest of your life with your partner, you drink water in order to keep hydrated and stay …
Seguir leyendo ‘Started paying closer attention’: Man notices his food disappearing and being oddly replaced with similar items, sets trap with a marked bag of chips, confirming his roommate, Jake, is secretly eating his food and using his Costco discount to replace it

Roommate fails to pay her share of rent and ghosts her housemate for over 2 months, so the housemate donates her belongings and mistakenly gets rid of a family heirloom: ‘It all could have been avoided if she had tried to communicate with me’

Living with an entitled, inconsiderate roommate is a rite of passage for any twenty-something trying to find their footing in this world. If you’re just starting out in your career or are currently in college away from home, you’re probably going to be living with a bunch of roommates. This is what primes you for …
Seguir leyendo Roommate fails to pay her share of rent and ghosts her housemate for over 2 months, so the housemate donates her belongings and mistakenly gets rid of a family heirloom: ‘It all could have been avoided if she had tried to communicate with me’

Married couple asks their 30-year-old roommate to leave the apartment for a week so they can have a «staycation» while their kid is at his grandparents: ‘They want me to stay at their parent’s house’

Most people have roommates during a very particular time in their lives. College students have to share a room with a complete stranger in their first year. This person will either be their future best friend, a fatal enemy, or a distant memory. In later collegiate years, having roommates not only makes your off-campus apartment …
Seguir leyendo Married couple asks their 30-year-old roommate to leave the apartment for a week so they can have a «staycation» while their kid is at his grandparents: ‘They want me to stay at their parent’s house’