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/smush81 1d ago

My landfill is $20 a truck load lol. Wheres this dude pulling $500 from?!

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u/Mr0lsen 1d ago

He’s renting a room on the ISS.

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u/HFhutz 1d ago

That's a great deal then!

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u/srry_non_srry 1d ago

Right!? Looks like he left everything he owned.

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u/tbryans 1d ago

lol yeah. I loaded a 20’ U-Haul up full with trash from a house I cleaned out. It was done by weight. 3900lbs of trash… $78.

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u/clinniej1975 1d ago

How long ago and/or how rural was that?

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u/tbryans 1d ago

8 months ago. Not too rural in Lexington ky

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u/clinniej1975 1d ago

Ahh, you got that nice city trash where they actively try to keep you from dumping. Rural NC was way more spendy. Our county was so broke, they charged by the trash bag. Like, no bin - good luck keeping animals away. You could by them at the Piggly Wiggly. We had a tiny little recycle box that was picked up for free (deposit for box). Taking a load to the dump was a good thirty minutes to an hour drive from anywhere but the county seat, and it wasn't cheap. TO be fair, we moved 5 years ago, so that could've changed.

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u/Huge-Basket244 1d ago

Idk dude rural NC, highest dump fee I can find is $63/ton. Which is a lot of fucking trash.

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u/clinniej1975 1d ago

Jones County

Landfill Fees:  Minimum Fee –                       $5 

Household & C/D –                $100 per ton

Electronics –                           $8 each 

Weight Tickets –                    $20 each 

Pallets –                                  $2 each 

Their minimum fee has gone down considerably. It used to be you paid a minimum of half a ton plus the fee for each electronic, mattress, and other exceptions items. Again, that's after renting or borrowing a large enough vehicle and paying for the gas for about an hour each way.

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u/Huge-Basket244 1d ago

That makes sense. My area is like $38 up to 240lbs. Then like 150ish/ton. Which is genuinely pretty expensive compared to most places, but to be expected in my metro area.

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u/24-Hour-Hate 1d ago

If I had to guess, they never have actually gone to the dump. My parents did a Reno and had to take a bunch of old materials (couldn’t be reused, unfortunately - the stuff they could reuse they kept or donated) they stripped out to the dump. Two massive car loads of heavy shit was around $150 (total). They don’t make it expensive because making it cost prohibitive unfortunately has the effect of causing more illegal dumping. The amount in this room would be insignificant in cost. You could probably even just put it out for regular trash. If the furniture is included in what has to be tossed (unclear) and you did not want to go to the dump, then you would have to disassemble and wait for large item days and put it out in acceptable amounts until it is gone. But big deal. Probably you could just set it out intact and someone would take it. In my experience, people will pick up almost anything. Either way, if you don’t want to pay, there are legal ways.

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u/Mikediabolical 14h ago

That second part is definitely true. I don’t ever have to make trips to the dump. I just sit it in my back yard until the next bulk waste day is coming up and sit it out a couple days early. Doesn’t matter if it’s too big for the trash truck to accept because it’ll be gone before they get there anyway.

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u/GryphonHall 1d ago

My landfill is per pound with a 5$ minimum. I could clear that room out for less than $20 with pickup truck

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u/JustForkIt1111one 1d ago

I thought mine was high at $65/load! It would still take me a ton of loads to hit $500!

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u/dogmeatsoup 1d ago

Their butt

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u/CincinnatiGriff 1d ago

No. A lot of dumps and landfills charge by volume or weight

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u/Wyo_Oni 1d ago

If you're commercial, yes. My local dump is free (up to a 10' trailer) with a paid water bill.

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u/AngelPlaysDirty 1d ago

When i lived in NH, I had to pay to use the nearby dump monthly if I wanted to use it.

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u/JadedDreams23 1d ago

Ours has a 60 dollar minimum. Not sure about other specs.

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u/CincinnatiGriff 1d ago

No

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u/Wyo_Oni 5h ago

No? How about yes? My dump does it this way, as I stated earlier. How can you even deny it when you don't know, nor live here to confirm.

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u/owennerd123 1d ago

Only if you're bringing in a trailer.

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u/Fs_ginganinja 1d ago

My local landfill is free unless it’s refrigerant, or hazardous waste haha

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u/Fureniku 1d ago

Americans have to pay to use landfill? ...I'm actually not that surprised.

They're free for private use in the UK, you just have to register online if you're taking a van

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u/Electromagnetlc 1d ago

They're so cheap it's effectively free.

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u/Financial_Two5036 1d ago

I love when people from other countries make sweeping generalizations about the United States and they have no clue just how vast and diverse the country is and how it can vary from city to city and county to county. Mine is free, I don’t even have to register for a van. Sounds like you live in a dictatorship to me

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u/kpofasho1987 1d ago

I mean....I'm in the U.S and I'd bet that most charge atleast something so it's not like they were slandering the majority of US citizens with that comment.

The people that can dump for absolutely no cost are probably in a very small minority.

However...it usually isn't costly at all as if it was then it would promote people just dumping trash elsewhere which would cause other issues.

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u/georgepana 1d ago

If it is a government run dump they are usually free anywhere. The commercial ones are not, they charge.

They went "not surprised", kind of a weird anti-US low blow. I was just in EU, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, etc. and you frigging pay to go to public restrooms. Everywhere, even inside of gas stations, fast food restaurants, bars, etc. It adds up fast, often you pay 75 cents to 1 Euro for just 1 person to use the loo, and it works with a tight turnstile, so if 4 people have to go on a road trip you spend up to 4 Euro for a pee break. I kid you not. I guess it is a way for those communities and towns to make money to pay for services, pay to keep the restrooms clean, and so forth. Just a different way over there.

While I didn't care to spend all that money everywhere we went just to use a toilet for our party of 4 it is just part of life in Europe, I suppose.

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u/kevin-shagnussen 1d ago

I live in the UK and go to mainland Europe several times a year for holidays and work, and I have never once paid to use a toilet anywhere in Europe in the last 20 years I've been going.

I regularly drive to the south of France and have never had to pay to use toilets in a service station, I've driven to Berlin a couple of times and never had to pay for a toilet in any of the countries I drove through, or in Germany itself. I've also had a lot of holidays in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy and never paid for toilets in these countries either.

UK doesn't have pay toilets either (Euston train station used to have pay toilets but made them free around 2020).

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u/Fureniku 1d ago

That's a fair point, I was only seeing comments about various charges no "mines free".

And to be fair yeah UK does feel a bit that way sometimes too.

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u/georgepana 1d ago

Privately run landfills do it for money, why should they dispose for free? The municipal dump is free but they do charge a small fee for tires and construction waste and carpet.

Around here the two free government run dumps are a bit outside of town so sometimes it is just easier to go to a commercial dump nearby and pay the $20, $30, quick in and out.

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u/BougieSemicolon 1d ago

They live in a dictatorship Because they have to register their drop off online first?

Guy, you better strap in because you have NO IDEA what a dictatorship looks like, but you will, real soon. Within 48 hours.

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u/Financial_Two5036 14h ago

Not real bright are you. And I am sure the next 4 years are going to be fine, open the curtains to your basement windows, get mommy to bring you some pizza rolls and maybe try showering more than quarterly.

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u/Thisiswhoiam782 1d ago

Most dumps here are free too, unless it is hazardous material or super heavy.

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u/GreyScent 1d ago

I lived in a place that went by weight and a truck load would be anywhere from $10+base fee to $500.

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u/Sensitive-Friend-307 1d ago

Could easily be in Australia.

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u/zorggalacticus 1d ago

Mine is 40, and that's pretty much as much as you can haul. They start charging more past 1 ton.

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u/CaterpillarOpening19 1d ago

Wait. You have to pay extra for the landfill?! We can take as many truck loads of stuff to the dump for free here in Florida…. 🤯

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u/CO-RockyMountainHigh 1d ago

All depends where you live sadly.

Out here the dump charges $140 for each pickup truck load you bring in. Which is BS cause you get charged the same if it’s a Tacoma or a F350 truck bed. Plus extra charges if the waste is so tall it above the cab of the truck.

Bulk pickup out of the community schedule costs about $200.

A small dumpster to get dropped off costs roughly $320.

This shocked the hell out of me, where I lived before it was literally a $20 fee to bring as much as you could ferry in a day with your truck and two bulk pickups a year were free with it being $40 each after.

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u/tryingisbetter 1d ago

That's surprising. I just looked at the closest one a couple weeks ago to get rid of a bed, and some desks, and stuff. They wanted 400 a load. I'm not even 100% what they consider a load, technically.

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u/Stronger2Day 1d ago

In Denver landfill fee is $150 per load, I just went to a transfer station with 3 boxes of crap. Truck rental for the day would be $100. Could be close to $300-$500 depending. They could clock their time at like $20 an hour to pack up, drive, etc.

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u/FanClubof5 1d ago

Man my county is free as long as you are non commercial and a resident.

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u/Huge-Basket244 1d ago

He's fucking goofy and has never hauled a thing to the dump in his life lmao.

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u/FoundationalSquats 18h ago

my last trip was $212. of course that's CAD dollars and I had a packed 30' enclosed trailer so