Feather1414
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So a few people have heard my story, but I need to figure out what to do so I don't scream and go on a roommate killing rampage.
So my basic living situation is that it is my boyfriend and I, and then we live with 3 other roommates, 3 girls and a guy. In Fort Collins, there is a law where no more than 3 unrelated people can live in a house together. We are quite obviously breaking that rule, and my boyfriend and I are not on the lease. The landlords don't even we are here. Levi -my boyfriend - and I have been living here for 8 months and we are so fed up, I am practically in tears of frustration as I write this.
I don't even know where to start. Maybe the fact that none of our bills are paid on time, we have no trash service - and haven't for 2 months now, or maybe the fact that I hate how we are treated.
To start with the overview of the bills, since we aren't on the lease, our names aren't on any of the bills. We every month we are told how much to pay, and we give them a check for that amount. Most of the time we don't even see the bill which I know is stupid but trust me when I say it's better to just go along with it then bring it up considering past events.
Every month, all of our bills are late, and most of the time we are at least 2 months past due. That's pretty strange considering we give them our part of the money on time, and yet the bills still aren't paid. It has gotten to the point where we are getting final notices in red letters literally every other month. Don't know what they are doing with that money, and considering when we ask them, they tell us its none of our business, and then it turns into a screaming match about how "personal" matters aren't apart of bills. That part makes no sense to me. Oh, and Levi and I have tried calling the company to figure out what we owed them in the first place, and dates on the bills. Since we weren't going to lie, we gave them our real names and explained our situation and in the end the companies -notice the plural there- called them personally and they took it as we are "snooping" on them.
We haven't had and trash pick up for two months now and yes, it is as bad as you are thinking. We didn't notice until the 2nd week when the first weeks trash was still in the trashcan. When we talked to our roommate, it turns out that for once she did pay the bill, but the company didn't acknowledge the payment, and they are trying to charge us late and inactivity fees in addition to the next bill. She would only have to go down to the bank and get a copy of that statement, but she has almost entirely not left our computer room because she is too busy playing World of Warcraft. Levi and I are the ONLY ones who clean any part of the house, or do dishes and when we ran out of trashbags, we decided we weren't going to be the ones to buy the next round, since we buy everything else too. It got so bad my parents had to buy them for me as a christmas present. We were using typical grocery bags, but they are honestly too lazy to put their trash in it, and would simply throw it into the empty trash can. Every night either Levi or I would take all the trash they threw into the empty can, and put it into little bags and take it out to the garage. After about 3 weeks, I got so sick of doing this I took the whole trash can to the garage and I left it out there. Levi and I went to work the next day, and then slept at a friends house and when we came home there was a pile of trash on the floor...where the trash can would be.
They haven't touched the dishes, and we have tried to idea to hold out until its either too gross, or until there are no dishes left. This doesn't work. You can see by the pictures that it JUST DOESN'T WORK. THEY WILL PICK OUT THE LEAST DIRTY OF THE DISHES AND REUSE THEM!!!!!
The house is a constant mess because they will not pick anything up. When we got back from spending 4 days with our families for Christmas, when we came home, there was so much trash in front of our bedroom door we had to move it before we could get in.
Levi and I are the only couple in the house, and we have the second smallest bedroom. We have a dresser, a full-sized bed and a small tv stand. Our floor space from the door to the dresser isn't even the length of a yoga mat. We don't even have a closet. Its the pantry to the kitchen that for someone goes through into our bedroom. Luckily its supposed to be an office or something because we have about a million shelves.
It's not so bad anymore, but they used to throw huge parties every weekend. Since we have the only downstairs bedroom, the whole party would migrate into the room in front of ours and keep us up until 5 am or later. Keep in mind that is after working 9 am to midnight on a friday, then we would come home to that party.
One of the worst parts though is that our male roommate is about the dirtiest, waste of human I have ever met. He works a maximum of 12 hours at week, at a computer desk job, and then the rest of the time he is playing World of Warcraft. He showers once and week and in the 8 months we have lived here, he has done laundry TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He only owns MAYBE 5 pairs of pants, and maybe 7 shirts...maximum. He smells like he is dying. The only time he will brush his teeth is during his once a week shower. I got so mad at him that one day when I was taking a bath I cleaned the grout on the bathtub with his toothbrush. It's so gross he honestly wouldn't have even noticed.
They smoke like chimneys, watch the tv as loud as it will go, which is literally right in front of our room. We have no respect. We have quite a few movies in our room, and even when we lock our door, we will come home to find the closet/pantry door open and our movies missing. Most of the time we come home and they say "oh, we borrowed this movie, I hope thats ok" No it's not ok. We NEVER go into their rooms without their permission, and we don't use their stuff without asking - EVER.
We are looking for a new apartment right now because I can't stay here until July. The stress from living here is so bad I'm sick all the time, almost constantly in tears and I just can't do this. We will give them our thirty days notice.
My mom suggested that for that last month we tell them that they take our rent out of the security deposit they have. Then with the utilities and other bills, they can subtract the amount I paid for the pet deposit from that amount and I will pay the remainder. I think you guys will be able to tell from the pictures that I am not making any of this up. And keep in mind that even though these pictures look bad, this is actually when the house is decently clean. It has been much worse.
Our living room, notice all the crud everywhere.
The room they moved the furniture out of to make room for their desks to constantly play World of Warcraft.
The trash that was in front of our bedroom door. Thats the door you see there.
So my basic living situation is that it is my boyfriend and I, and then we live with 3 other roommates, 3 girls and a guy. In Fort Collins, there is a law where no more than 3 unrelated people can live in a house together. We are quite obviously breaking that rule, and my boyfriend and I are not on the lease. The landlords don't even we are here. Levi -my boyfriend - and I have been living here for 8 months and we are so fed up, I am practically in tears of frustration as I write this.
I don't even know where to start. Maybe the fact that none of our bills are paid on time, we have no trash service - and haven't for 2 months now, or maybe the fact that I hate how we are treated.
To start with the overview of the bills, since we aren't on the lease, our names aren't on any of the bills. We every month we are told how much to pay, and we give them a check for that amount. Most of the time we don't even see the bill which I know is stupid but trust me when I say it's better to just go along with it then bring it up considering past events.
Every month, all of our bills are late, and most of the time we are at least 2 months past due. That's pretty strange considering we give them our part of the money on time, and yet the bills still aren't paid. It has gotten to the point where we are getting final notices in red letters literally every other month. Don't know what they are doing with that money, and considering when we ask them, they tell us its none of our business, and then it turns into a screaming match about how "personal" matters aren't apart of bills. That part makes no sense to me. Oh, and Levi and I have tried calling the company to figure out what we owed them in the first place, and dates on the bills. Since we weren't going to lie, we gave them our real names and explained our situation and in the end the companies -notice the plural there- called them personally and they took it as we are "snooping" on them.
We haven't had and trash pick up for two months now and yes, it is as bad as you are thinking. We didn't notice until the 2nd week when the first weeks trash was still in the trashcan. When we talked to our roommate, it turns out that for once she did pay the bill, but the company didn't acknowledge the payment, and they are trying to charge us late and inactivity fees in addition to the next bill. She would only have to go down to the bank and get a copy of that statement, but she has almost entirely not left our computer room because she is too busy playing World of Warcraft. Levi and I are the ONLY ones who clean any part of the house, or do dishes and when we ran out of trashbags, we decided we weren't going to be the ones to buy the next round, since we buy everything else too. It got so bad my parents had to buy them for me as a christmas present. We were using typical grocery bags, but they are honestly too lazy to put their trash in it, and would simply throw it into the empty trash can. Every night either Levi or I would take all the trash they threw into the empty can, and put it into little bags and take it out to the garage. After about 3 weeks, I got so sick of doing this I took the whole trash can to the garage and I left it out there. Levi and I went to work the next day, and then slept at a friends house and when we came home there was a pile of trash on the floor...where the trash can would be.
They haven't touched the dishes, and we have tried to idea to hold out until its either too gross, or until there are no dishes left. This doesn't work. You can see by the pictures that it JUST DOESN'T WORK. THEY WILL PICK OUT THE LEAST DIRTY OF THE DISHES AND REUSE THEM!!!!!
The house is a constant mess because they will not pick anything up. When we got back from spending 4 days with our families for Christmas, when we came home, there was so much trash in front of our bedroom door we had to move it before we could get in.
Levi and I are the only couple in the house, and we have the second smallest bedroom. We have a dresser, a full-sized bed and a small tv stand. Our floor space from the door to the dresser isn't even the length of a yoga mat. We don't even have a closet. Its the pantry to the kitchen that for someone goes through into our bedroom. Luckily its supposed to be an office or something because we have about a million shelves.
It's not so bad anymore, but they used to throw huge parties every weekend. Since we have the only downstairs bedroom, the whole party would migrate into the room in front of ours and keep us up until 5 am or later. Keep in mind that is after working 9 am to midnight on a friday, then we would come home to that party.
One of the worst parts though is that our male roommate is about the dirtiest, waste of human I have ever met. He works a maximum of 12 hours at week, at a computer desk job, and then the rest of the time he is playing World of Warcraft. He showers once and week and in the 8 months we have lived here, he has done laundry TWICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He only owns MAYBE 5 pairs of pants, and maybe 7 shirts...maximum. He smells like he is dying. The only time he will brush his teeth is during his once a week shower. I got so mad at him that one day when I was taking a bath I cleaned the grout on the bathtub with his toothbrush. It's so gross he honestly wouldn't have even noticed.
They smoke like chimneys, watch the tv as loud as it will go, which is literally right in front of our room. We have no respect. We have quite a few movies in our room, and even when we lock our door, we will come home to find the closet/pantry door open and our movies missing. Most of the time we come home and they say "oh, we borrowed this movie, I hope thats ok" No it's not ok. We NEVER go into their rooms without their permission, and we don't use their stuff without asking - EVER.
We are looking for a new apartment right now because I can't stay here until July. The stress from living here is so bad I'm sick all the time, almost constantly in tears and I just can't do this. We will give them our thirty days notice.
My mom suggested that for that last month we tell them that they take our rent out of the security deposit they have. Then with the utilities and other bills, they can subtract the amount I paid for the pet deposit from that amount and I will pay the remainder. I think you guys will be able to tell from the pictures that I am not making any of this up. And keep in mind that even though these pictures look bad, this is actually when the house is decently clean. It has been much worse.
Our living room, notice all the crud everywhere.
The room they moved the furniture out of to make room for their desks to constantly play World of Warcraft.
The trash that was in front of our bedroom door. Thats the door you see there.
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