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Yorick
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I don't think I've done a helplife2.net thread before, but I am growing to ****ing loathe my housemate. He's been living with me and Kate (my girlfriend) for almost two months, and it seems as though every day he does something worse.
I'm 24, and my girlfriend is 19. This is my fourth apartment or so, and her first. John's 23, and we met through an ex girlfriend of his. We kind of knew each other before he moved in, but we weren't really best friends or anything. I just needed someone to help with bills and he needed a place to live.
The problems with him run quite a range.
The thing that annoys Kate the most is that he only really talks to us when he's having some kind of problem. If he has friends over, they'll hide out in his room and not so much as say hello to us, which she feels is rude. And there are things like, he started painting his room (when he moved in months ago) and lost interest or whatever so it's half done now with open paint cans around.
On my end it's usually things like, today's the 7th and he still hasn't paid his half of rent, and it's unlikely he'll have it before this week is out. Or at least once a week I have to go into his room while he's at work to get dirty dishes so I can eat. He's never cleaned anything, and doesn't even so much as pick up after himself that Kate and I can maintain the rest of the house ourselves.
Right now our plan is simply to try and ride out the lease and get a place just the two of us in August. In the meanwhile I'm trying to figure out ways to make this more bearable, because I'm not so much an asshole that I want to force him out / make him homeless, but he's seriously not pulling his weight.
It's hard to talk to him because although he's 23, he has a total child outlook and anything I say seems to fall on deaf ears and a super laid back attitude. He's not a bad kid, he's just more of a kid than I thought, and I don't like having to be his parent. He's so self-absorbed that he doesn't even notice how much he's irritating us.
This morning I asked him about rent, since he told me over a week ago that he had it. I said that I was tired of taking flak for him, and he simply replied "Not my fault, you told me a week late was cool". And it's like, No, I said if it HAS to be late a week SOMETIMES, the landlord understands, but that doesn't mean you should act as though the due date is the ****ing 12th. Not to mention that he still hasn't paid the security deposit.
Part of me wants to ask the landlords to just boot him, but I'm not sure what the grounds are for even doing such a thing, and that puts me in a lousy position as well, since Kate and I can't pay for the entire apartment ourselves, and our landlords are both over a thousand years old and need the money for medication / food.
So, what do?
I'm 24, and my girlfriend is 19. This is my fourth apartment or so, and her first. John's 23, and we met through an ex girlfriend of his. We kind of knew each other before he moved in, but we weren't really best friends or anything. I just needed someone to help with bills and he needed a place to live.
The problems with him run quite a range.
The thing that annoys Kate the most is that he only really talks to us when he's having some kind of problem. If he has friends over, they'll hide out in his room and not so much as say hello to us, which she feels is rude. And there are things like, he started painting his room (when he moved in months ago) and lost interest or whatever so it's half done now with open paint cans around.
On my end it's usually things like, today's the 7th and he still hasn't paid his half of rent, and it's unlikely he'll have it before this week is out. Or at least once a week I have to go into his room while he's at work to get dirty dishes so I can eat. He's never cleaned anything, and doesn't even so much as pick up after himself that Kate and I can maintain the rest of the house ourselves.
Right now our plan is simply to try and ride out the lease and get a place just the two of us in August. In the meanwhile I'm trying to figure out ways to make this more bearable, because I'm not so much an asshole that I want to force him out / make him homeless, but he's seriously not pulling his weight.
It's hard to talk to him because although he's 23, he has a total child outlook and anything I say seems to fall on deaf ears and a super laid back attitude. He's not a bad kid, he's just more of a kid than I thought, and I don't like having to be his parent. He's so self-absorbed that he doesn't even notice how much he's irritating us.
This morning I asked him about rent, since he told me over a week ago that he had it. I said that I was tired of taking flak for him, and he simply replied "Not my fault, you told me a week late was cool". And it's like, No, I said if it HAS to be late a week SOMETIMES, the landlord understands, but that doesn't mean you should act as though the due date is the ****ing 12th. Not to mention that he still hasn't paid the security deposit.
Part of me wants to ask the landlords to just boot him, but I'm not sure what the grounds are for even doing such a thing, and that puts me in a lousy position as well, since Kate and I can't pay for the entire apartment ourselves, and our landlords are both over a thousand years old and need the money for medication / food.
So, what do?