Looking for roommate (burnet & Mopac by Gracy Farms)
Posted: January 20th, 2007, 8:39 pm
Okay. Once again, I find I'm looking for a roommate, and my short-term rent costs have gone way up.
My roommate is moving out tomorrow.
This happened because on Wednesday, I found out that her boyfriend, who she gave a key to without telling me, has gone to jail for stealing a high-end sportscar.
Let me try to explain.
I didn't really like the guy - our personalities were very different, I'll admit, but that didn't matter. I trusted my roommate's judgement, and so I saw him around.
Then I saw him enter the apartment, locked, when he had a key. Now, my roommate did not tell me he had a key, but I thought: You know, I really would have liked to have known this, but my roommate is a smart person and I trust her judgement until such time as I have a reason not to trust her judgement. So I was laid back, and cool with it.
Then, while he was playing Need for Speed on my PS2, he casually brought up the fact that he stole a Corvette.
Then drove it at 150mph down the highway.
Then got stopped because the corvette had a GPS kill-switch.
Then tried to outrun the cops on foot.
All of this was said like it was no big deal and without any sort of regret or admission of being young and stupid. That's really what scared me and made me too uncomfortable to have him in my home. It wasn't his record, but his lack of remorse.
I asked him how old he was when he did it. He was 18. Had he said 16, I wouldn't have thought as much of it and chalked it up to youth and stupidity. By the way, he's 25 now, so this isn't that long ago.
So I called up my roommate on Friday, (I should have had this conversation in person, I admit, but lately her and "hot-rod McGee" had become inseparable) and told her that I was uncomfortable with him in the apartment. I gave her a choice: I can't tell her who to date but I can tell her that I'm very, very uncomfortable with him in the apartment and don't want him coming around. If this means that she needs to move out to be with him, I won't hold her to the lease.
She decided today that she's going to be moved out by tomorrow, asked for a refund of rent paid in advance for this month as well as other expenses (gladly) and letters stating that she's moving out and that I'm taking over the lease. (provided.)
So, all in all, things worked out, except now I feel like "the bad guy" for "kicking my roommate to the curb" and I'm out $320 now, and $440/mo for the rest of my lease unless I can find another roommate.
Oh yeah, did I mention I'm looking for another roommate?
Criminal records not preferred.
My roommate is moving out tomorrow.
This happened because on Wednesday, I found out that her boyfriend, who she gave a key to without telling me, has gone to jail for stealing a high-end sportscar.
Let me try to explain.
I didn't really like the guy - our personalities were very different, I'll admit, but that didn't matter. I trusted my roommate's judgement, and so I saw him around.
Then I saw him enter the apartment, locked, when he had a key. Now, my roommate did not tell me he had a key, but I thought: You know, I really would have liked to have known this, but my roommate is a smart person and I trust her judgement until such time as I have a reason not to trust her judgement. So I was laid back, and cool with it.
Then, while he was playing Need for Speed on my PS2, he casually brought up the fact that he stole a Corvette.
Then drove it at 150mph down the highway.
Then got stopped because the corvette had a GPS kill-switch.
Then tried to outrun the cops on foot.
All of this was said like it was no big deal and without any sort of regret or admission of being young and stupid. That's really what scared me and made me too uncomfortable to have him in my home. It wasn't his record, but his lack of remorse.
I asked him how old he was when he did it. He was 18. Had he said 16, I wouldn't have thought as much of it and chalked it up to youth and stupidity. By the way, he's 25 now, so this isn't that long ago.
So I called up my roommate on Friday, (I should have had this conversation in person, I admit, but lately her and "hot-rod McGee" had become inseparable) and told her that I was uncomfortable with him in the apartment. I gave her a choice: I can't tell her who to date but I can tell her that I'm very, very uncomfortable with him in the apartment and don't want him coming around. If this means that she needs to move out to be with him, I won't hold her to the lease.
She decided today that she's going to be moved out by tomorrow, asked for a refund of rent paid in advance for this month as well as other expenses (gladly) and letters stating that she's moving out and that I'm taking over the lease. (provided.)
So, all in all, things worked out, except now I feel like "the bad guy" for "kicking my roommate to the curb" and I'm out $320 now, and $440/mo for the rest of my lease unless I can find another roommate.
Oh yeah, did I mention I'm looking for another roommate?
Criminal records not preferred.