Sharing a home with someone can be a great way to save money on rent and utilities, but it can also push you to the very edge of your limits.
The subreddit 'Choosing Beggars', a place where people shame those who are being way too picky when asking for things, has plenty of types of recurring characters. There's the shameless parent who uses their child's birthday as leverage for negotiation, the art "critic" who lowballs every piece they get their eyes on, and many, many more.
But among these infamous personas, roommates are arguably one of the most frustrating. Whether it's disagreements over household chores, personal space, or guest policies, they have the ability to quickly become a painful source of stress.
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Roomates Response To Me Asking About The Electricity Bill She Hasn't Paid In Months (That's In My Name, Leaving Me With The Debt)
Chances are that if we do not become kinder to one another, there will be many more similar screenshots. American adults are increasingly sharing a home with other adults with whom they are not romantically involved.
This arrangement, known as “doubling up” or shared living, gained notice in the wake of the Great Recession, and the prevalence of shared living has continued to grow since.
Roommate Doesn't Buy Own Groceries, Complains About What I Buy
Why do people even endure these leeches for so long? I'd pull out all of my feathers long before that 😅
Looking For A Roommate: I'm Quite Easy-Going
Facebook Cb Wants Roommate To Pay More Rent Because She Makes More
While the rise in shared living during and immediately after the recession was attributed in large part to a growing number of Millennials moving back in with their parents, the longer-term increase has been partially explained by a different phenomenon: parents moving in with their adult children.
In 2017, for example, nearly 79 million American adults (31.9% of the entire adult population) lived in a shared household. For comparison, in 1995, the earliest year with comparable data, the number stood at just 55 million (28.8%), and in 2004, at the peak of homeownership and before the onset of the home foreclosure crisis, 27.4% of adults shared a household.
The Gag Is...she Had Already Eaten All My Hash Browns The Night Before, This Text Was Just An Attempt To Cover Her Ass!
My Old Roommate Wanted Money To Buy Cat Food, But Not Actual Cat Food
Seeking Female Roommate: Rent Will Be On A Sliding Scale Depending On Your Looks
My Ex-Roommate, After 2 Months Of Leaving Piles Of Stuff At My Place, Finally Returns To Pick It Up
The nearly 79 million adults living in a shared household include about 25 million who own or rent the household. An additional 10 million are the spouse or unmarried partner of the head of the household.
Another 40 million, or 16% of all adults, are the “extra adult” in the shared household. This share of living in someone else's household is up from 14% in 1995.
Live Away Roommate
Roommate Wanted Free Coffee
Had To Text My Roommates This Because Of What They Did. Came Home To My Cat Trapped In The Bathroom Yowling
Seems like they mighta "forgot" cat in bathrm on purpose. I wouldnt trust them then alone in apartment again with said cat to move out and not be spiteful .
College Girl Is Looking For A Roommate But Is Homophobic/Transphobic, Rude, Wants Silence Almost 24/7 And Overall Has Unrealistic Expectations. (I Wonder Who Her Roommate Ended Up Being... And If She’s Still Sane)
"As a young intellectual, I prefer to only tolerate the presence of people who mimic my values and opinions because I find those who challenge my ways of thinking terribly offensive."
In 2017, just 18% of extra adults lived in a household in which the head was unrelated (typically a housemate or roommate).
Interestingly, living with nonrelatives has become less prevalent since 1995, when 22% of extra adults were doing it.
Room Mate Refuses To Take Any Less Than 1 Hour + In The Shower With 5 Of Us Living Here
oh i would out-petty this crazy bîťch the MOMENT she said she doesn't care about her roommate's well-being
My Freeloading “Roommate” When I Asked That He Fill The Amount Of Gas Back Up In My Car That He Used To Go See His Boyfriend
No Loud Music, But My Music Will Be Loud
That’s what you see just before you are blindfolded and stuck in a basement.
Roommate Invited A Random Girl Who Doesn’t Pay Rent And Isn’t On The Lease To Live At Our House. He Demanded That She Would Have The Only Parking Spot In The Unit. After Telling Him I’d Share The Spot With Her He Responded With This:
With so many adults living together, Apartment Guide conducted a survey of over 1,000 Americans to learn what determines a good and bad match.
According to the findings, people who had more than one roomie were less satisfied with their living situations than those with just one. Also:
- People living with their friends, family (32%), and co-workers were the most likely to be happy with their roommates;
- People living with an acquaintance were the least satisfied with their living situation;
- Living with one other roommate who happens to be related to you is the most satisfying roommate situation.
He Used To Be My Best Friend. But We Had A Falling Out, And He's Recently Decided He Didn't Need To Pay Half Of Utilities Anymore
*Asks Roommate To Pay Utilities Bill That Is 9 Days Past Due*
World's Worst Roommate
Dirty dishes, sitting in the sink for days and slowly putting on mold... yeah, the bin it is.
Roommate Cancelled Netflix. Time To Move!
Followed the Reddit rabbit hole/paper trail and OP said that they're pretty sure the person is referring to THEMSELVES with the term "little one" and NOT their child... ew.
41% percent of people identified keeping shared spaces clean as the top source of tension between roommates.
The topic of cleanliness was highest among people living with friends (47%), followed by strangers (43%), acquaintances (42%), and family (32%).
Paying rent (9%), communication (7%), and violating boundaries (7%) were the next biggest issues between roommates.
Looking For A Girlfriend, Iq Under 130 Need Not Apply. Roommate Too
This Girl Took Her Roommate's Mercedes On An 86+ Hour Roadtrip
I Guess My Latino Culture Triggered My Roommate 😔
Gross. Disgusting human. Leave your ridiculousness behind and go take manners and etiquette classes.
Roommate Sent Me A Video Of Herself And Our Other Roommate Going Through My Room And Things While Sh**talking How It Looks (I’ve Been Staying With Family But Emphasized My Room Is Still A Private, Personal Space I Don’t Want Others In) — Love Them :)
Apologising for sending the video - not for making it or doing the stuff on it!
Move out or get a lock on your door. These people are not your friends.
Make sure nothing is missing. If anything is, even if it's just a single sock, make a police report. You have video of the crime taking place.
That is 100% true from experience. I had 2 ex roommates that couldn't get along bc one kept burning incense in the house when the other had really bad asthma so she went in her room and took the cheap little incense burner worth literally $2 and when roommate B called the police they put roommate A in handcuffs and offered to arrest her bc technically roommate Bs room is private as she pays for that space. So yep even a sock would catch a charge.
Load More Replies...Oh yes! We will "move past it" because YOU are "moving out"
Load More Replies...Going through one’s personal space and possessions for an extended period of time without his or her knowledge or consent is not an accident! I’d be looking to move or go to my landlord and complain with my roommate was unwilling to resolve the issue seriously.
Michelle not trying to be mean but this is the 2nd comment in a row where you have said you would go to the landlord. I am a property manager and you have given bad advice both times. Her going to the landlord is absolutely pointless as that is not the landlords business to determine who's room is what and what belongings each person has therefore the landlord would do NOTHING in this situation again. Yes the police could arrest them for invasion of privacy but the Landlord NO! please read up on the terms of a lease/contract as well as the penalties for breaking a lease before you tell these people to keep running to their landlords. All that is going to do is give them a bad rental history and that will be a problem in the future when the next person ask for a rental reference. I doubt any of these posters have $8k minimum to break a lease. Your advice is the same as a Karen "can I speak to your manager?"
Load More Replies...It was only half an accident in that she sent the video (which was an invasion of privacy), but accidentally sent it to the victim instead of to mom.
Her defense doesn't even sound right..I was sending it to my mom because I was worried about finding a roommate. WTH does that have to do with going through MY stuff and WHAT does that have to do with finding a roommate? Do you think advertising that you have no respect for others rooms will make them rent from you? And why does your mom need to see my room? So many questions but my petty a*s would call the police bc searching my room and recording it is absolutely a crime and she needs to learn that lesson now and that she is ENTITLED to anyone else's room/space/belongings.
Load More Replies...I had roommates that did that while I was at one of my two jobs. Then posted the pictures on social media. My door was a little jacked up and the landlord wouldn't fix it so I could lock it.
That's actually the shape you pull when you want your roommate to move out. And then you apologize and say it was a mistake when it was completely intentional
Nearly 47% of people surveyed were friends with their roommates before moving in together, but only 32% were satisfied with their current living arrangements. So just because you get along with someone doesn't mean you'll be compatible.
I Want A Naked Female Roommate And A Room At Half The Market Rate For My City
Free Non Working Roommate. What A Deal
Cb Gets So Mad About Roommate Buying Store Brand Garbage Bags That She Felt The Need To Come To A Fb Group For Advice
We are literally talking about an item whose only use is to be thrown out. But it should have a brand label?
Looking For Roommate To Pay Rent And Not Be In Apartment
My Roommate Spent Her Paycheck Too Fast Again, So I Offered To Get Us Liquor. It Devolved Into This
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Some creepy-a$$ people on here wanting VERY specific control over other people. Hopefully, they didn't get any roommates to impose their creepiness on. Especially the guys who wanted female roommates with extremely specific body types. Buffalo Bill vibes from those dudes
My roommate is my brother. But it's a good arrangement we each pay half the rent and bills and always pay on time, he never steals from me. Hes a bit messy but if I tell him to clean up something he'll do it.
Sometimes siblings truly make the best roommates. You already know if you'll get along way before you get a place together, you already know their bad habits, and you already how to talk out any issues.
Load More Replies...I'm old now but, back in the day, I lived very frugally ( poor) to not have a roommate.
I had a room mate in 2000 who rang all the numbers on the phone bill to check if they were numbers I'd called so he could make sure I paid for them
Had a roommate that would like, blow his nose in the shower? Like boogers all over the wall somehow and he'd just leave it there. Disgusting. I pointed it out told him to clean the shower and he told me not to talk to him like he's a child. Okay then maybe don't act like one? Dude also stunk up the apartment and used my brand new carpet cleaner I hadn't even used yet to clean up some barf in his floor, he prob got too drunk to try to aim for the trash, honestly no telling, and didn't empty it out. So it had been sitting in my machine up until I used it for the first time. No idea how long it was there.
I’m curious how she was supposed to help you if you wouldn’t help yourself? If you wouldn’t leave him, how was she supposed to get you away from him??
Load More Replies...I had a roommate in the military who set out to make my life hell the moment I moved in. She stole from me, threw parties until 3am on weeknights, and even tampered with my hygiene products. The only thing worse than having a roommate is having an assigned roommate.
Agree with that. I had a random assigned roommate first semester dorm. I don't think he showered the whole semester.
Load More Replies...I am eternally grateful that the only people I've ever had to live with were family, even if we were sometines at loggerheads. Omg. These are horror stories.
I'm currently dealing with a roommate from hell. Mfer got a 70k inheritance and decided to quit his job and live on that for a year. Now the money's all gone, refuses to get a new job, stays drunk somehow but stopped paying rent. He killed my kitten, stole my sons piggybank with all of his tooth fairy money he ever got and then some,, recently stole my car while driving drunk to go get more booze. Then the night after steals my husband's car at 1:30 in the morning for the same reason. We're getting evicted now since we can't kick him out (thank you California) and can't pay the rent on our own. And that's not even half of it. I could go on for days. I can't f*****g stand him and can't wait to never see his loser a*s again!
Call the police and report him for theft and animal abuse.
Load More Replies...I was in a dorm by myself freshman yr. First roommate had some sort of crisis. So, I was sleeping and all of a sudden someone comes in and tells me they are my new roommate. College never informed me. Email or regular mail. Ok...so I help her move ALL her stuff in. (She was being kicked out of her apartment by her roommates). The fridge/freezer I had in my room, I purchased (not rented). Told her she can use half of it until she gets her own. Next time I opened it, I saw it packed with all of her stuff. She took all of my diet cokes out! Ya...called my dad. A week later she was gone. Wake me up...ok. I'll help move, give you space. One rule: Don't touch my Diet Cokes.
My Junior year in college, I was in on-campus housing with other Sophomores, Juniors, a Senior, and the RA (I think there were 8 of us). The dorm was also gender-mixed, which was totally fine and we got along well. But on to the bad roommate. The girl who shared my room had to switch housing because of a disability, and the guy who came a week later was a 25 yo Freshman. 1st bad sign, he came back that night drunk, which he did quite a few times. 2nd, he was a loud snorer. The 3rd and worst was at our house rules meeting. He comes in late, I think after drinking again, and adamantly refuses to sign a housing agreement that wasn't typed up. But worst of all, even though the rest of us were a higher grade than him, we were also younger than him and he'd refer to us several times as children. I was visibly shaking after that meeting with the prospect of having to share a room with this guy and had to talk to the RA about it, plus visit the college therapist a couple times later on.
My current roommates are my former best friend C, his brother B and his gf G, and my partner T. Me, T and G do 99% of cleaning around the house we rent. B expects to be taken care of to the point where it's affecting his relationship with G. C is somewhat autistic and will only do things like emptying the dishwasher/trash when it's convenient for him. We also get onto C about not helping out enough and he does whatever we asked of him once and stops after that. Could be a lot worse but we're so ready to move out.
Stuff like this makes me so glad I got an apartment with my sister instead of a friend. We grew up together and prefer most everything the same way. Only thing we disagree on her her trashy self centered self obsessed bf. But we have a compromise on that. I keep my mouth shut and she keeps HIS mouth shut. So all in all, no real complaints.
I never had a roommate until my husband and I got serious my Senior year in college. Before that, I'd let people stay there when I did my internships across the country to have someone take care of my fish. Lol. Until my kids, my husband was the worst roomie...
I had a roommate that would blow his nose in the shower and just like. Leave it on the wall. Like idk there were boogers everywhere I don't understand
Some creepy-a$$ people on here wanting VERY specific control over other people. Hopefully, they didn't get any roommates to impose their creepiness on. Especially the guys who wanted female roommates with extremely specific body types. Buffalo Bill vibes from those dudes
My roommate is my brother. But it's a good arrangement we each pay half the rent and bills and always pay on time, he never steals from me. Hes a bit messy but if I tell him to clean up something he'll do it.
Sometimes siblings truly make the best roommates. You already know if you'll get along way before you get a place together, you already know their bad habits, and you already how to talk out any issues.
Load More Replies...I'm old now but, back in the day, I lived very frugally ( poor) to not have a roommate.
I had a room mate in 2000 who rang all the numbers on the phone bill to check if they were numbers I'd called so he could make sure I paid for them
Had a roommate that would like, blow his nose in the shower? Like boogers all over the wall somehow and he'd just leave it there. Disgusting. I pointed it out told him to clean the shower and he told me not to talk to him like he's a child. Okay then maybe don't act like one? Dude also stunk up the apartment and used my brand new carpet cleaner I hadn't even used yet to clean up some barf in his floor, he prob got too drunk to try to aim for the trash, honestly no telling, and didn't empty it out. So it had been sitting in my machine up until I used it for the first time. No idea how long it was there.
I’m curious how she was supposed to help you if you wouldn’t help yourself? If you wouldn’t leave him, how was she supposed to get you away from him??
Load More Replies...I had a roommate in the military who set out to make my life hell the moment I moved in. She stole from me, threw parties until 3am on weeknights, and even tampered with my hygiene products. The only thing worse than having a roommate is having an assigned roommate.
Agree with that. I had a random assigned roommate first semester dorm. I don't think he showered the whole semester.
Load More Replies...I am eternally grateful that the only people I've ever had to live with were family, even if we were sometines at loggerheads. Omg. These are horror stories.
I'm currently dealing with a roommate from hell. Mfer got a 70k inheritance and decided to quit his job and live on that for a year. Now the money's all gone, refuses to get a new job, stays drunk somehow but stopped paying rent. He killed my kitten, stole my sons piggybank with all of his tooth fairy money he ever got and then some,, recently stole my car while driving drunk to go get more booze. Then the night after steals my husband's car at 1:30 in the morning for the same reason. We're getting evicted now since we can't kick him out (thank you California) and can't pay the rent on our own. And that's not even half of it. I could go on for days. I can't f*****g stand him and can't wait to never see his loser a*s again!
Call the police and report him for theft and animal abuse.
Load More Replies...I was in a dorm by myself freshman yr. First roommate had some sort of crisis. So, I was sleeping and all of a sudden someone comes in and tells me they are my new roommate. College never informed me. Email or regular mail. Ok...so I help her move ALL her stuff in. (She was being kicked out of her apartment by her roommates). The fridge/freezer I had in my room, I purchased (not rented). Told her she can use half of it until she gets her own. Next time I opened it, I saw it packed with all of her stuff. She took all of my diet cokes out! Ya...called my dad. A week later she was gone. Wake me up...ok. I'll help move, give you space. One rule: Don't touch my Diet Cokes.
My Junior year in college, I was in on-campus housing with other Sophomores, Juniors, a Senior, and the RA (I think there were 8 of us). The dorm was also gender-mixed, which was totally fine and we got along well. But on to the bad roommate. The girl who shared my room had to switch housing because of a disability, and the guy who came a week later was a 25 yo Freshman. 1st bad sign, he came back that night drunk, which he did quite a few times. 2nd, he was a loud snorer. The 3rd and worst was at our house rules meeting. He comes in late, I think after drinking again, and adamantly refuses to sign a housing agreement that wasn't typed up. But worst of all, even though the rest of us were a higher grade than him, we were also younger than him and he'd refer to us several times as children. I was visibly shaking after that meeting with the prospect of having to share a room with this guy and had to talk to the RA about it, plus visit the college therapist a couple times later on.
My current roommates are my former best friend C, his brother B and his gf G, and my partner T. Me, T and G do 99% of cleaning around the house we rent. B expects to be taken care of to the point where it's affecting his relationship with G. C is somewhat autistic and will only do things like emptying the dishwasher/trash when it's convenient for him. We also get onto C about not helping out enough and he does whatever we asked of him once and stops after that. Could be a lot worse but we're so ready to move out.
Stuff like this makes me so glad I got an apartment with my sister instead of a friend. We grew up together and prefer most everything the same way. Only thing we disagree on her her trashy self centered self obsessed bf. But we have a compromise on that. I keep my mouth shut and she keeps HIS mouth shut. So all in all, no real complaints.
I never had a roommate until my husband and I got serious my Senior year in college. Before that, I'd let people stay there when I did my internships across the country to have someone take care of my fish. Lol. Until my kids, my husband was the worst roomie...
I had a roommate that would blow his nose in the shower and just like. Leave it on the wall. Like idk there were boogers everywhere I don't understand