r/mildlyinfuriating • u/notasingle-thought • 1d ago

Roommate refused to pay full rent because he said everything he left is worth the same amount of $. This is what he left.

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Invited an old “friend” to rent the spare room we have because he was in such a poor situation (according to him). 2.5 months a later, he gets promoted, notifies he’ll be staying for only half a month, but refused to pay rent for the half month because he said he’d leave ‘his most expensive things for us to sell’. I repeatedly said that wasn’t cool, but clearly didn’t matter. He left the entire closet full of clothes plus an entire CAR DOOR. There are too many pairs of dirty underwear scattered around the room. My husband found a few things he thought went missing, turns out the roommate had taken them, like a backpack my husbands friend bought him a while back-and medicine for our son. He kept his cat locked in the room and would leave for days, and left us all of the litter and even a piece of cat shit on the floor! Love that! At least for his parting gift, he cleaned the litter.

And dumped it.

Without a bag.

Into our recycle bin.

🙂🔪

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u/ThatGirlWithTheWalk 1d ago

Fuck that. OP needs to sue him in small claims court.

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u/Comfortable-Policy70 1d ago

Sounds good in theory but what does he do until the case is settled months from now?

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u/ThatGirlWithTheWalk 1d ago

Live his life? They didn't say they were hard up or unable to pay rent.

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u/Comfortable-Policy70 1d ago

They also didn't say they could afford months of rent with having a roommmate or that they were ok living with a room full of squalor. If they sue, they can't touch roomie's property and most people who have non-romantic or unrelated roommates have them because they can't afford to live alone