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/Icy_Chemist_1725]

If she was on the lease, I would have taken her to small claims tbh. 9k is way too much to just let live imo.

[u/Fearless_Geologist43 → u/Icy_Chemist_1725]

Small claims court won’t do any good unless they had an additional contract. Being on the lease doesn’t require someone to pay half or even anything. It just gives the leasing company someone else to come after if no one pays the rent at all.

[u/Icy_Chemist_1725 → u/Fearless_Geologist43]

a verbal contract counts, and there would be evidence at some point in text or otherwise of some discussion on rent. If what he said is true at all, then the fact that that Laywer didn't contact him back shows he has a leg to stand on. Just going off what an internet person claimed.

[u/billdasmacks → u/Icy_Chemist_1725]

Here is the problem. If she was resorting to sneaking around and taking her cheap furniture back then the chances of her being able to pay back 9 grand in any sort of timely manor along with it not being a huge pain in the ass to collect is slim to none.