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Topic: Weird roommate stories
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| Unemployed-gal | Posted – 8/29/2007 6:41:40 PM | show profile So my old roommate recently moved out. He'd been a longtime friend, and it was sad to see him go. On Craigslist I found someone I thought seemed pretty good. She "moved in" three weeks ago. Te reson those words are in quotation marks is because, well, she never really moved anything in, besides a bed. She doesn't keep food in the fridge, doesn't keep toiletries in the bathroom; basically its like living with a ghost. She goes away and stays away for days, even a week, at a time. Where does she go? I don't know, maybe se travels for work (she works in a law office, but she's not a lawyer). Several days ago, the bathmats in our 5 ft sq. bathroom went missing. I thougt, fine, she's taken them to be laundered. But I aven't seen those bath mats since! Then yesterday, my full-length mirror, which stands in our living room/ eating room, went missing. Poof! Vanished, just like that! In a 500 sq. ft. apartment. My roommate hasn't come home yet, so I aven't yet had the opportunity to ask her about these things; but still, I tink its kind of weird. So anybosy else had weird roommates? |
| SpinDr810 | Posted – 8/29/2007 7:04:07 PM | show profile Ended in lawsuit Don't even get me started on wierd roommates! But, before I tell the story, it sounds like you need to confront that thieving roommate of yours! I was in college...2nd semester of freshman year, and I moved in with an aquaintance from high school. I never really knew the girl that well, but she seemed normal enough. WELL, a few months in, she brought home 3 kittens, but felt that it wasn't necessary to have a cat box. So the cats crapped everywhere. Not to mention that I wasn't home on the weekends much, so she would lock her cats in my room and they pooped on my comforter, someone puked in my bathtub....complete chaos. Then, the dumb girl left a bag of ice on the counter---not in the sink---ON the counter and flooded our kitchen. The kicker was when she came home with a 7 foot boaconstrictor (sp?) and placed in and it's cage on top of my entertainment center. She fed it huge rats and the blood would splatter everywhere. The rental office wouldn't do a thing, so I moved out and broke the lease. The apartment complex sued me for breaking the lease, and I counter-sued that they didn't do crap to support their "no pet" policy. I mean, seriously! The suits were dropped and I haven't seen the freak since. Whew! |
| writesonwater | Posted – 8/29/2007 8:46:27 PM | show profile I'd change the locks and demand a chance to talk. |
| pholiday | Posted – 8/29/2007 9:03:55 PM | show profile My guess would be that your roomies is getting drunk and vomited on the rugs and prob. broke the mirror (though she could be a weird kind of clepto). Just ask her what's happ. and she will prob. apologize and buy new stuff. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 8/29/2007 10:32:09 PM | show profile that's not weird so much as scary. i'm glad i've got my own place. couldn't deal with something like that. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 8/29/2007 11:23:19 PM | show profile Just don't watch Single White Female. |
| wineaux | Posted – 8/30/2007 12:17:33 AM | show profile Bizarre. And Creepy. Not to mention suspicious. I'm guessing that by the time you expect her to chip in on her first official month of rent in one week, you'll come home to a completely vacant apartment unless you demand an explanation from her and get your items back. When I still owned a home in L.A., we had a little one bedroom cottage in the back of the property we rented out. We were lucky to have good tenants, but I am the paranoid sort. I read all of the tenants rights and responsibilities laws, had a lawyer draw up my lease agreements, did a credit, employment and reference check and demanded the most I legally could in a deposit. One sort of odd thing happened, though. The last tenant we had moved her lavish danish furniture in and didn't spend a single night there. She lived there for four months, paying the rent on time and occasionally stopping by to collect her mail and say hello. She traveled extensively for work, and had a relationship that got serious just before she moved into our back house. She basically paid a hefty price for a pretty storage unit. I let her break the 6 month lease since I knew she wasn't pulling anything and I never had a problem renting the place out. Best tenant I ever had, I must say, except for the fact she stayed for such a short time. |
| keltoi | Posted – 8/30/2007 12:26:09 AM | show profile Unemployed, you might want to take anything you have of value and put it somewhere safe before it gets "disappeared" too. And be sure to get your rent in advance every month, especially if you're the only name on the lease. |
