Do You Have One?

I got sued once. Not a good experience. It's a long story, and one my dad feels partly responsible for. But the important thing is, he lost. I won. It was a guy who was renting my third wheel trailer. This was years before I was on disability.

SO truly in regard to your post earlier today it was truly a wise decision to not interfere with that womans argument. I would of been frightened too, especially not being told beforehand and with it not having any safety locks or being locked up would really rub me the wrong way. Sounds like they were truly out to cause trouble! You could of countersued for false accusations.

what a story, I am very leery of taking in boarders for that very reason. I had one girl live with us just moved out on her own. At the time she was okay. She helped me a lot but she didn't stay very long.

Unfortunately I have several but the worst was when my daughter was a baby. Like you I was trying to make ends meet. During my pregnancy I had allowed a friend of my sister's to move in with me. Well, she had this BFF who was over so much, she may as well have lived with us and split the rent three ways instead of two. Then they never cleaned up after themselves! I remember one time my roomie made fried chicken and left the pan with the oil in it sitting on the stove for a week! When I asked when she was going to get that cleaned up, she started telling everyone that I was mad at her and had snapped at her. I had been very polite when I asked about it and had actually poked fun at my own neatnikness. Well, she then moved out around the time I went into the hospital for the 3 months before my baby was born. When I got back from the hospital I got a college student as a roomie. This girl got herself a kitten and would disappear for days on end leaving that kitten behind, dirty litter box and no food for the little thing. This kitten also thought my baby's dangling legs from the swing were there for her entertainment and would bat at my daughter's legs...scratching them up. She eventually moved out without so much as a decent notice. The next room mates I took on was a married couple with a three year old little boy. We were living in a trailer, right? The water heater was on one end of the house and the washing machine was on the other end by the kitchen. This woman would run the hot water in the kitchen sink till it was hot before starting her load of laundry which she always washed in hot water. Your talking about electric bills made me think of these people. They more than doubled the electricity usage. They were constantly running the vacuum, even when it wasn't necessary, in their room and kept either their TV or their cassette audio machine on all the time. They were trying to sell Amway and their sales motivational tapes were always playing. Then they were unable to come up with their share of the rent and electricity! He was without any employment other than the Amway stuff and that only sucked the money from them instead of making money. I was relieved when they moved out. But I think the worst of all the room mates I had back then (yes, these were all within a two year period and in the same house) was a girl I had grown up with. I swear that woman was psychotic! Just a few of the things she did to me include telling the food bank people that I didn't need the food from them. I didn't have a car and so they would deliver. This woman decided that this food was hers and took over the whole situation without so much as a by-your-leave. I remember one time they delivered a cake to me and she and I had just had a disagreement and she wasn't speaking to me. So she took the cake and put it on the top shelf to hide it from me and when I got into it, anyway, she hid it in her room! Mind you, this cake was delivered to me by the food bank. It was my name on it. Another time her son (8 years old) was cutting the countertop with one of my sharp knives. When I tried to stop him doing that, he took off running with this knife in his hand and my baby in his way! She did nothing to him for endangering my baby's life like that! Another time she had gotten mad at me for no reason and we weren't speaking. She just took off without her younger son and left him there for me to care for without checking with me first. I had an appointment to go to and she expected me to watch him! She got home just as I was getting in the car to go (I didn't have a car and was relying on others for the ride). Then she got mad at me for leaving him alone in the house! He wasn't my responsibility and she had not said anything to me about watching him...didn't even check with me if it was okay...but I was the one at fault. Finally, she got a windfall from her native corporation shares and decided that it was best spent on a trampoline. I did not want that thing on my property but there was no telling her that. One day she had her boys' father and a bunch of his friends over and they were all on the trampoline at the same time. Safety was not a concern to them. I had to run and use the toilet so I handed my 11 month old daughter to her to hold for me while I went and she started heading for that trampoline full of people. I told her, "My baby does not go on the trampoline." "Oh, that's okay. I'll be on there with her." I had images of her landing on my baby on that thing! I said, "No, my daughter does not go on the trampoline...at all!" This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding this woman's insanity. She came to me one night after she had moved out and she was in tears. When she told me why she was so upset, I had to think she had been hallucinating which is a hallmark symptom of schizophrenia. She always reacted inappropriately to things...getting furious over the boys messing her bed up but not even scolding them for running across the room with a sharp knife in their hand. Not to mention she would fly off the handle at the silliest of things and get mad at me and then expect me to put up with it. It was a real relief when she finally moved out! I won't even get into my experience as a landlady...I already have a discussion or two about my tenant on here. Bottom line, though, is that there are a lot of people out there who make lousy room mates and only a select few who make good ones. It helps if you are in a home that has a good landlord who has specific rules and has them written down so that there are no misunderstandings. The woman I mentioned above (with the two boys) had been a family friend all our lives. I had known her since we were toddlers and had spent my teen years best friends with her twin sister so we were not strangers by any means. Still, there were a lot of facets to her that I never saw until she moved in with me. I don't regret helping her out. At the time I invited her to come stay with me she was being evicted from her place and desperate and I was just glad I could help her. She may have driven me nuts with her psychotic paranoia and hair trigger temper but I don't regret doing what I did and would do it again if ever the need arose. I am always grateful, though, for the few room mates I've had that were wonderful. Sad to say, they were few and far between.

Oh my God! How scary and annoying!!! Well, thank God you finally got rid of them! And their efforts of getting you into trouble??? That's so sissy!! Glad you're all fine. Now hopefully they can see who are the bad guys! If your rent is very high, is it possible for you to find a place that isn't costly so you won't get this kind of trouble ever again?

When I was younger I wanted a roommate but I soon learned I really don't mix well with people I don't know or living with others period. This post confirmed for me I am on the right track.lol

I have a few. I will share one. I had a house that had been trashed by renters and this young woman from our church said she needed a place to stay. I told her that if she would pay the utilities and clean up the house she could stay in it. First thing she did was end up having a fire by putting something too close to the pilot light on a gas cookstove. Then it gets declared that the heating system was unsafe. Then we could not afford to repair the door the firemen busted in. She still needed a place to stay, moved in with us "temporarily". Would not sleep in the spare bedroom but on the sofa in our tv room. Demanded and required attention constantly, so then my nine year old told me once that "you take better care of her than you do of us." She tried to tell me my hubby was flirting with her (I knew better), gave my phone number out as hers. Ran all the lights and utilities up at the house she was cleaning up and otherwise drove me nuts. She finally found a boyfriend to move in with, called me up saying she did not owe utilities and then got a church to pay my bills. Years later she went around telling people how nice I was, but at the time she said I had a reputation for cheating everyone in town. I still go grrrrrr when I see her.

As a college student I lived with many different people in different dorms, boarding houses, rooms for rent, and others. I had a good relationship with all of them, good thing. There was one person though, who was quite messy, but that was it. I remember I also lived with an emergency room nurse one time, who liked to tell stories about goings on in the emergency room that are simply grotesque. But that was bearable. I did have a problem with the family who owned the house I was living in some time in 2003. They were noisy anf always fighting,screaming at each other. They could never call out to each other nicely! I didn't stay there long since the noise was driving me crazy. Good thing that that nightmare was over for you! It's really hard to let other people into your home. In all the places I lived in, there were very stringent rules. Most of them do not even allow having too many possessions. One place regulated the number of showers taken, washing clothes was not allowed (you would have to bring your clothes to a laundry shop) and there was one place that charged me a certain amount of every piece of appliance I brought in. Good thing I have my own place now.

That's why I won't have anything to do with being a landlord..my sister has a house she rents out. The last time she tried to get the people out they owed her thousands of dollars and they totally trashed the house. They had three little kids living in the mess...we had to wear masks and rubber gloves just to go in! Fox news even came because the house was so trashed. Then they pass laws protecting these kind of people.....I don't think so!

Now that is one Horror story. The nerve of those people! good things are ok now for you and your family..and yes i think it should best not for you to invite anyone you do not know...

My nightmare was when I let one boyfriend stay at my apartment! He practical lived with me and wanted to move in! Even though he was at my place all the time I should of charged him rent! I never did! I gave him a spare key and that was not a great idea! He ran up my phone bill and I had a heck of a time getting him to pay it! We happen to meet at a place we both worked at the time. I was lonely and desperate. He was the worst boyfriend I ever had! He had a really bad temper! He threw a broom at me once which hit me in the back of the head! he once he took his arm and pushed everything off the kitchen table! Broken some drinking glasses! He bounced from job to job! He was abused by his mother and was estranged from her. he lived in foster homes for a while where he and his brother were also abused. He had disgusting habits like chewing and sucking on his index fingers! He lost his car becasue he couldn't afford the payments! He had two other kids from previous relationships and was not paying child support! I got pregnant and that was the end of that! anyway I am sure I mentioned in another discussion I gave my son up for adoption. I never wanted him to be be part of his fathers life and I never have regretted it! So since then and this will never change! No more roommates! Living alone is for me! I have my privacy and so much more!

I have one but it's not mine. I don't really like having roommates because I love having my alone time. Anyhow, my friend has three roommates and it turned out that these 3 roommates are in a gang of some sorts. Well one thing led to another and in the end, he found that most of his things are disappearing. Turns out his roommates have been stealing from him when he's out. He only put the pieces together when most of his things are gone and his roommates, all three of them, disappeared with the stolen stuff. And that my friends is one of the reasons I don't like having roommates. Can't risk losing my valuables there.

That was really a nightmare. I don't have any experience having a bad roommates. The only things I've encountered are missing things, which I guess a normal situation when you are living in a dormitory with 3 other persons inside the room. I change 3 dormitories during my school days due to this reason. I find my money , clothes and other personal stuff missing. It's hard to accused any-so the last dormitory that I have lived with, I choose a room for 2 persons only.

Imagine that kind of person as an evil ex. I have that kind of person as an evil ex. No, she did not move in and disrupt everything. but she is still trying to screw me over ever chance she gets. And she will not stop. She has even threatened to kill me on so many words. She wants what ever little money I get every month. Thats why she has not yet served me divorce papers. People like that have to be stopped and taught a lesson. I cannot do anything except get a lawyer. And I already have one. So I will be taking steps in fixing this madness. But you are right to never get another room mate ever again. People take advantage all the time.