Yahoo! Answers hits the streets: Episode 3
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Throughout your life, the chance of having a bad roommate is big. We’re pretty sure you’ve experienced at least one messy, loud, or annoying roommate. So please tell us — or anyone having this problem — how do you get rid of them?
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Question: How do you get rid of a bad roommate?
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“Just say something like, ‘Hey, sorry, but would you mind if we talked about this later, I have to finish this [current project] by [due date] and I’m not very far on it.’ And, just to lighten things up, you could add a joke or smile, or an ‘Oh goodness, I had better get started or I’m dead meat’ -expression. No need to be rude, just honest. If they still can’t shut up, then you need to be a bit harsh. (:”
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u dont 1st give ‘em a warning then if didnt help one more after that desperate measures for desperate times then put worms in theyre beds
I divorced him!
I had one in College. He started bringing 2 girls over at a time and having sex. Many times I had to sleep in the lounges. He also had a Pot Plant and they smoked all the time. There was no regard for my wants or even any common courtesy. I could have told the Police about his Pot and could have sent a letter to his girlfriend or mother back home to tell them. Instead of giving him a reason to hate me and try to blame all problems ON me, I took it upon myself to move out the next semester. I moved in with the religious guy nobody wanted to have as a roommate down the hall. He was much more tolerant and courteous than the other guy and his ultra-liberal lifestyle. THESE are the things YOU learn in College and life. Sometimes YOU have to take action instead of waiting for the offending party to “see the light.” Sometimes you have to get rid of YOURSELF instead of trying to get rid of him. :0)
I never had a bad roommate, I will always live in a tiny cube before living with someone else. the best way I can think of to get rid of a bad roommate is to tell them upfront, then if he doesn’t listen, talk to the landlord about it, and if that still doesn’t work, tell the landlord the conditions were unlivable with the roommate and you are moving out by (insert number of days here), usually the landlord will do everything in his power to keep the good tenants and everything to lose the bad tenants so it usually works out for the best
A major experience happened while stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, back in the early 1960s. Living in the open-bay barracks then meant to live with 40 other men or so, but one fellow would inevitably turn up the volume of his record player and drown me out while I played guitar, with no amplifier, sitting on my bunk. The moment I would enter the bay his record player grew louder and louder.
It mattered not to him how rude and inconsiderate he was, so my only recourse would be to take my guitar to the Service Club or outside on the barracks porch to play.
I could not fight obnoxiousness because it would have lowered my own standards.
lol these vids are amazing
Always had great room mates including my current one of almost 50 years. Wish everyone were as fortunate as I.
Cuss them out. Worked for me!
I’ve had a few bad roommates before. The most recent came as a friend moved in with me, in my house, but stopped paying rent after about six months later, and found a place to move, but then lost that — but I’d already started helping him move his things, and I wouldn’t let him rescind his decision to move.
When I was in college, I had one terrible roommate who was almost always drunk, ate all of my food in the kitchen, and was generally a pain. Fortunately it was just a summer share — we’d originally decided to room together for the whole coming academic year, but after the first few months, I decided to forget that. I got the landlord to allow me to move into my own apartment away from this guy, who the next year dropped out of school altogether.
i had a roomate she’d put on my thongs and use my toobrush as well as my shoes and everything else took my boots and sold them to a homeless person at a really cheap price and sold other things of mine.
how did i get rid of her?
i punched her in the face.
i kid you not.
My last roommate always brought hookers into his room, pierced his tongue on his own and bled all over the floor, dealt drugs and held me hostage with an air-soft rifle and a knife and tried to steal my IPod. I got my buddy to come help me move out. The guy’s probably dead by now.
I had a bad roomate. VERY BAD, there was no way you could ignore her.
The best advice is try not to make or pretend to make friendship with them, stay neutral and do not talk uness you have to.
i have an annoying roommate as we speak!! First off, she an international “student” that commits fraud by enrolling in classes and sending the enrolllment documents to immigration, then drops the classes and continues to try and build a business here in the U.S. using a student visa (WHICH IS ILLEGAL TO DO) and overcharges her roommates INCLUDING MYSELF on rent and pockets the left over cash. She doesnt pay any rent because we pay her part for her because of the overcharge and she still has money left over to pocket for herself. shes a fake ass b*tch!! Shes Chinese and cheap as heck!! wont even buy her own food eats my food and the food of my other 2 super cool roomies who i absolutely love!! Shes bossy and dirty as hell and expects me and my other roomies to clean up after her lazy ass!! How did i get rid of her?? i am sublease from her…so im moving out at the end of this month. WHEW!! good riddance to that mess!!
Yeah my roommates were cool, except my first and my last semester. what a coininsedence…. anyway they were horrible mates. the first semester was bad cause i was trying to be friendly living with 8 ppl but my roommate was to controlling and I had to leave….
then my last semester my roommate moved out and then brought in a faget that would invite his bf over and they be screwing. they were so gay and they needed to go to jail seriously….
I’ve learn a lot of experience in roommates regarding human behaviour in terms of conditions. I’m exposed in high & low heat. Particularly bad things happen to me. Everyhting, If I have a roomate I open minded what do’s & dont’s. What he like’s & dislike’s. Secondly, frankly speaking I speak profoundly to himself.
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Dennis G. Guiao
Jeddah, Rabigh Saudi Arabia
I put ritz dye in hot water heater and died him yellow.Then told him he looked like he might have hepatidiz.
Roomates can be overbearing and yet have an attitude as if you’re at fault. I experienced this and although talking and making amends did not work the parties were heavy while I had finals due. The fact of cleaning the area was left to me and began to be overwhelmed with the issues surrounding what once was a friendship. I find that living alone is more accepted than with a roommate and yet the cost of living is beyond my means and trying to find a two more jobs to make ends meet.
First rent a room from one you know nothing about except by the outward look of the home which the room will be rented.
Second stay within your bonds and always clean up after yourself.
Third be polite and always inform the other should you not be coming home or will be late.
Fourth….never room or share an apartment with a friend…you will no longer be friends…or will become distance….
In college my boyfriend and I had a terrible roommate. He was dirty, really annoying, and defensive. In order to kick him out without hurting his feelings we waited until the new semester was coming up, in which he was only taking 4 classes. We told him my dad wouldn’t allow us to have a roommate that wasn’t a full time student. You know, for my education’s sake. He didn’t have an argument against “Its either you, or rent money.”
1. Insist that you are a vegetarian and protest anytime your roommate eats meat. Then leave “Slim Jim” wrappers on the floor and lie on the bed holding your stomach every time your roommate walks in. If he/she asks about the wrappers, say you know nothing about them.
2. Get some hair. Disperse it around your roommate’s head while he/she is asleep. Keep a pair of scissors by your bed. Snicker at your roommate every morning.
3. Every time your roommate walks in yell, “Hooray! You’re back!” as loud as you can and dance around the room for five minutes. Afterwards, keep looking at your watch and saying, “Shouldn’t you be going somewhere?”
4. Trash the room when your roommate’s not around. Then leave and wait for your roommate to come back. When he/she does, walk in and act surprised. Say, “Uh-oh, it looks like, THEY, were here again.”
i had 2 horrible roommates back to back my freshman yr of college. the first one would not, i repeat WOULD NOT bathe! she was infested w/ rashes and wore the same outfit and underwear day after day and this is before the first college semester even began. i believe she was suffering from some major depression and emotional issues. i told my mother and she told me to be discreet about the situation when i went to request a room change.
i then hooked up w/ this seemingly nice girl i had befriended on campus and we chose each other as roommates. i thought everything would be great and i was wrong. she loved the a/c to be blasting ice chunks which made me miserable b/c i hate freezing i don’t care if it’s 100 degrees outside. secondly, she was the biggest liar i’ve ever met in my life. she lied about where she was from, who her parents were, that she was engaged, everything and anything! the weirdest thing was she began crying hysterically one night and i went to pat her back and asked what was bothering her and she said her FIANCE had broken up w/ her. well, this was weird b/c her FIANCE had called a few days prior and when i congratulated him on the upcoming wedding he didn’t have a clue what the hell i was talking about! that girl was too weird. the final straw was when she came in and told me this wild story that her mom was an abortion doc and had people shooting up her clinic w/ assault rifles. my mom told me she was going to wire me the money to pay for my OWN ROOM asap. that girl was crazy.
my final roommate is my husband. he’s a-ok w/ me compared to those 2 girls
One who leans on the Sandalwood would receive the the fragrance of the Sandawood. Allow your roommate to lean on you. If he still smells bad you have no right to redeem him.
I had a room mate that was so dumb and lazy. We worked different shifts. I came in one day and it was
her day to cook dinner. I opened the door and almost
passed out from the stink. I didn’t see anything cooking so I ask what is that horrid smell. She said, i burned a pot of beans. I ask what did you do with them. She said, I thought you was the landlord so I put them under the bed. Can you believe that.
Try being courteous at first (just to say that you did so) and explain the situation to them. If that doesn’t work, become the sort of roommate YOU wouldn’t want! Talk too much, don’t bathe as often, have sex in the next room, sing off-key, eat their food, etc. Find their sore spot and hit it HARD!!! It works every time…
Oh I had one of those….I had my home and I rented a room to this psycho chick and she started taking over my house !!! She even kept the money for “Renting out” myliving room couch WTF ? I was so upset about it I was talking to a friend of mine and she asked me if everything in the hosue was mine andI said yes…she told me to tkae it out of the hosue so, the Pscycho roommate couldn’t use it…ie; silver ware, microwave, Television, tables, chairs and Lovk it up in y garage…needless to say The “Psycho Princess” had to leave ‘casue she couldn’t use all of my stuff !!! LMFAO hahahahah : )
i need help i have a roommate on a lease with me, i want him gone but dont know how. he’s very loud partys monday thru friday till the sun comes up. annoys the people living next to us. dosent clean his trash(yes theres trash everywhere im not kidding you on the side of the house on top around i mean everywhere) also has been late on his rent/bills we each send out rent off to the landlord. 2 times he’s been late the 3rd time we are kick out i have talk to the landlord about getting him out but he dosent care as long as he gets his money. what can i do please i really need advice.