Have you had a roommate that didn't work out?

I have severel time for a case like this, but the most recently caused by my roommate invite his girlfriend do suck thing maybe you know that. and his doing it in front off me and that make me angry abaout him. but after we are not a roommate anymore i'm still accept him as my friend.

I gave up on having roommates after my last situation. There were 3 of us sharing a nice apartment. We were robbed and somehow only 2 of us had anything taken. One roommate who often forgot to lock the doors had nothing taken. She was also the one who wouldn't clean the apartment as we all agreed to rotate. Didn't take long for Mike and I to realize that when it was her week to vacuum and clean the kitchen and bathroom, she simply didn't. I didn't care that her room was a mess since the shared space was fine. The last straw was a week after the break in when she came home drunk 2 nights in a row with 2 complete strangers. And I had to wait to use the bathroom while her "guests" showered first,,,yuck. That was it for me. It's been years since I've had roommates and I'll never again if I can avoid it. I was far better off in a small studio with just me to worry about. And I agree about friendships being ruined. I have had friends who moved in together as close friends and it didn't work out well at all and it ended the friendship which was very sad.

yes i do have a room mate and it didn't go well for us... before we used to be friends but now we don't talk anymore. i admit it was a bit of my fault because i spoiled her. i do lot of things for her that made her depend on me so much. when the time came that im so tired of doing things for her and i told her about it. she just stopped talking to me. she got angry at me. but believe it or not. were still room mates. we just ignore each other.

I do, but the state says I gave birth to them so I have to keep them!! I'm joking..kind of..I never had a roommate once I was an adult living on my own. I don't know if it was the years I shared a bathroom with my siblings or my airhead college roommate that was hanging on to disco like it was actual music or the combination of both, but I refused to live with anyone, especially if they were a friend. I had too many friends that tried living together and 3 months into it I was caught between the 2 of them complaining about the other one all the time. I didn't even get married until I was 30, just so I could delay having a roommate. I have never regretted not having one, although it doesn't give me alot to offer your discussion. Sorry.

I still live with my parents since my university is 12 minutes away. But sometimes I go to my boyfriend's student apartment. Two of the room mates he has there are nice. But there is one who has some problem with all of them. First of all, he believes he is some kind of a hero. My boyfriend told me he is an art kid. The problem is that the guy yells at them if he sees turned on lights in the apartment. Secondly, he yells if any of them uses paper plates because he thinks its hard on trees. He does not like if my boyfriend comes out of his room in boxers. He does not like if anyone's footstep is a bit loud. He yells if anyone is talking on the phone at midnight. But the funniest part is that he is majoring in music and so at 2pm he listens to music quite loudly. It is so crazy that if you are tired and want to take nap it will be totally impossible to do. Secondly, he watches movies on his laptop and yes the noise is way too much. Another thing is that if we say hi to him he ignores us because he feels we are all too low for him.

Mine unfortunately was my sister, I took her under my wing whilst she was out of work, and within two weeks of moving in, and with my help, she had a new job and was sorting herself out. She continued to share my house for six months and after the first two months, things went downhill very quickly. She made excuses for not being able to afford her rent, despite going out to nightclubs three nights a week. She regularly came back with brand new clothes from the high street and put credit (top-ups) on her phone daily. I reduced her weekly rent amount as a goodwill gesture and still the problems continued. Her boyfriend stayed over six nights a week and neither offered to assist in the payment of food or general bills. They ate whatever I bought, mostly helping themselves without asking, and smaller more niggly problems such as being inconsiderate and leaving their washing in the washing machine, not washing up or cleaning the shower after themselves. I myself had my partner living with me (he was a co-tenant on the house) and it caused no end of arguments between us, mostly because he thought I was being far too lenient despite the fact it was my sister, and in hindsight I do agree. Relations became strained with her, despite me giving her no-end of chances and rent-free weeks, and problems escalated further when her boyfriend got involved in discussions regarding the house and threatened my partner on several occasions physically. Once was so bad that my partner was too scared too return to the house because this guy had threatened to "smash his head in"! Things came to a head and I packed my sisters belongings myself and told her to go and stay at her boyfriends' parents. I'm not the kind of person to be abrupt in making a decision like this, or act unreasonably, and it takes a lot to push me to this kind of conclusive action, but I couldn't take it any longer. It was affecting my relationship, my sleep, my health and my work performance on a daily basis. It has now been 8 months since my sister left and we have not spoken since, and I'm not sure we ever will. It's not the first time it happened and it wasn't the first time I had taken her in when she got into difficulty. It just goes to show that sometimes it doesn't matter who you offer to share your home with, whether it be to help or to co-habit, even the closest can be the worst!

My roommate is good though she is messy sometimes I can tell that I can really trust her and she became my close friend also. I havent experience a problem with any of my roommate before.

Not like me, Java. As long as I stay with my friend at a same room, we always work out. There's no bad thing or something. Yeah there are some my friends that a little bit messy. But I always work out with them.

I had typed a long passage,but just missed it. All right.Cut long story short. I have such a roommate.We three don't like her. Everytime I think of her, I can't help being angry.

When I was in the college, we had 4 roommates in one dormitory. At the first year of our college, because one came from countryside and three came from city, so she always thinks that the other three look down upon her. But in fact, at the begining we didn't. That's what she thought! We regarded her as our good friend. After several months, what she did is too unacceptable to work out with us. Even did some washing and made noise when we were sleeping. Sometimes we considered that she would kill us in the midnight. Fortunately, after one day our talking all night, we solved all the problems between us. Now she is our best friend and we play together. From this story, I know that good communication is the key factor to maintain friendship. Don't believe that it's caused by different lift habits.