11/10/2025
Landlord/roommates were taking advantage of me
u/msimms001 says,
This is from about a year and a half ago before I moved out and bought my current house, me and my girlfriend were living with my ex friend and his girlfriend, and the house was in her name.
I had moved in summer of 2019, cheap rent, but house was in pretty p**s poor condition, but I wanted to move out just to be on my own. When [The vid] hit, all 3 of us (me, friend and his gf) ended up on unemployment, I found a job at Amazon soon after but they wanted to stay on unemployment just to not work and make the extra money they got from it. In summer of 2020 they decided to buy a Rv (for like 6000, so it was not a good rv by any means), and travel the country while on unemployment. In October of 2020 my girlfriend moved in with me, and we signed a new month to month lease stating we'd be the only 2 in the house, take care of all utilities ourselves, etc.
In early summer/late spring of 2021, they moved back in because their rv broke down (of course, anyone with a brain could've guessed that would happen), but they never changed the lease and I am not confrontational and just went with it (mistake on my part). I knew they were still on unemployment and making very little money, so I decided to just continue paying all utilities myself, even though they both lived there, and I never said anything because I thought I was just being a good friend.
Flash forward to spring of 2022, I'm in the process of buying my house, getting everything settled, they have jobs now but still aren't paying anything for utilities or anything. I decide to message my friend one day and ask if he'd be willing to pay half of the utilities until we move out so I can free up some money to help repair my house i was buying and get stuff it needs. He instantly says something along the lines of "it says in the lease the utilities are your responsibility". Instantly I was fuming, but I just took some deep breaths, said ok, didn't message anything else about it, even though I know the lease was pretty much null as it stated it was only supposed to be me and my girlfriend in the house.
A couple weeks later, as we get the keys to our house and begin working on it as fast as we can so we can leave. I had no plans to pay anything that month, none of the utilities or rent. I didn't tell them this, I was done with them and just going to let them figure it out. Eventually his girlfriend tries to set up a meeting with me to talk, I knew exactly what she wanted to talk about as the due dates for the utilities was coming up and it hasn't been paid, so I kept blowing her off. When she sent me the second to last text about how the login hasn't changed, me and my girlfriend decided right then and there, in the middle of the night, to grab all our [crap] and move out even though we really wanted to wait a couple more days. Called up a few friends with trucks, loaded everything up, made a few trips, took to about 630-7 am and we were finally free and away from them in our new house.
The last text is what his girlfriend sent after they realized we moved out. The key she's talking about was the spare key I had made for my girlfriend, I paid for it so I wasn't giving it to them, broke it and threw it out.
Sorry for the long rant but just found this subreddit and wanted to post about it.
