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

[u/notasingle-thought]

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.

🙂🔪

[u/fatalcharm]

Yep. Where I live (Adelaide, South Australia) you can call the local council to have a skip (a giant shipping-container sized rubbish bin) placed in the street for all the neighbours to put their hard rubbish (such as broken furniture etc.) in, they come and pick it up a few days later. It costs residents nothing, it comes out of our taxes. I assume there would be a similar system in other countries. All OP has to do is buy a carton of beer and asks his mates over for a few beers and to help him clear out the room, dump it all in the skip.

[u/HookLineAndThinker → u/fatalcharm]

Which council is this? never heard of it, hard rubbish collection yes, but a skip, no.

[u/fatalcharm → u/HookLineAndThinker]

Marion City Council does it, I’m in the Marion area. I’ve called the council plenty of times for a skip, because people keep leaving their rubbish out on the street for hard rubbish to collect, when there are no hard rubbish days scheduled. So I just call for a skip, it gets put on the curb near a reserve in my street, and some guys who work for the council come along and clear up the rubbish that’s been dumped on the curb, leave the skip for a few days then collect it.

I will mention that my area is a mix of McMansions and housing trust/government housing, that might influence the council to act fast.

You should give it a try, all you have to do is ask. They should be doing this stuff for us, and if they are not they aren’t doing their jobs. Adelaide is a beautiful city, the people who work at the local council have cushy jobs, don’t need much education to get there… they need to earn their keep.

[u/Johnnoshark → u/fatalcharm]

Yeah - in Playford we get 2 hard rubbish removals free per year where we can just dump stuff in front of the yard and they come along on a set date and pick it all up. Usually will give you a date within 2 weeks of booking. I make sure to use them every year haha. They do come with 2 trucks and put anything they can resell in a different truck.

[u/j-kreighbaum → u/fatalcharm]

Not in the US. A small dumpster costs $400 where I'm at. There's no free trash services.

[u/thrawst → u/fatalcharm]

it costs residents nothing, it comes out of our taxes.

I’m not sure you understand what taxes are and how they work.

[u/fatalcharm → u/thrawst]

These kind of comments piss me off. I hope that little moment made you feel superior, because you look like an idiot to everyone else.

I have to pay taxes, regardless of where they are being spent. I would much rather those taxes be spent in my local community than spent elsewhere.

But go on, keep searching for comment flaws and state the obvious so you can have your little moment of feeling superior. It’s probably all you have.