ULPT Request: make my housemate want to move out without hating me
Posted by MagsTheMagician@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 4 comments
I live with two friends
one of them is chill and I've been living with him for almost 2 years
the other one moved in this year and she's not a bad person but she's kinda hard to live with
like, she will leave her dishes full of food in the sink for days until it starts to rot and sometimes gets one of our other friends (who doesn't live here) to wash them (I think that's weird idk)
she leaves the stove completely dirty and I have to be the one to clean them bc our other friend doesn't really cook so it's not him leaving the stove like that
even after the dishes are clean she still leaves food in the sink and then when the sink got clogged she didn't want to divide the cost of the drain cleaner even though she used the bottle I had bought on my own before to unclog her shower
she never vacuums, I have to do it most of the time even though I have back problems and it's hard for me to do so, even my other roommate does it sometimes but she never does
we have dishes in the house that belong to the landlady and there's plenty of them
my and the other roommate brought our own dishes also when we moved in and we keep the in our respective cabinets
when she moved in she didn't bring any of her own dishes with her and uses ours all the time without asking and then leaves them dirty for days so we can't use them either
her boyfriend practically lives here rent free
back when she first moved in we realized we did not have enough cutlery for 4 people so me and the other roommate wanted to buy more and divide the cost between the 3 of us and she refused because "It's gonna get confusing when we move out". Me and the other roommate had to buy them anyway because we didn't want to eat with our hands but she uses them anyway.
we tried to do recycling for a while and in the paper bin, despite being told not to, she put a paper takeout container with food leftovers and it was buried under other papers so we didn't see until a few weeks later when I went to take out the paper trash and there was the food containers with a cockroach in it (we live in the third floor and cockroaches are not all that common where we live so this is not normal)
we always warn her when we want to bring someone to sleep over (like on the couch because of a party or something) but she often forgets to tell us when she's gonna do it and forgets we've already invited people over so then the people we invited don't have a place to sleep
and that's all I remember from the top of my head
the point is, she is still our friend and even if she wasn't we have a lot of friends in common and straight up kicking her out for "minor" things would be a lot of drama and I just want some way to make her not want to live here and want to move out at the end of the semester
Great-Conference-748@reddit
Put the dirty dishes in her bed. Every time.
Keep your things in your room under lock and key, when you don't use them.
Make a list of chores and rules, and put her name to chores, too in there. Write down a rule that, if someone doesn't do their chores (including cleaning up after themselves) and someone else has to do them, a specific amount has to be paid by the offending person. Etc. Make rules for everything. Speak to the nice roommate about the rules. When the list is complete, sit down with everyone and then all of you have to sign the list. Everyone gets a copy. Now it's a contract and if she still doesn't adhere to it at least she has to pay.
ThatKaleidoscope8736@reddit
She's not picking up after herself because you clean up after her. Stop being her mom and set boundaries. As for the boyfriend thing, I'm sure it's against your lease to have someone practically living there without being on the lease.
MagsTheMagician@reddit (OP)
I don't like living in filth and the boyfriend thing, it's against the lease to have other people sleep over but we all do it sometimes, she does it every time and idk how to report it without causing issues for the rest of us
NOjax05@reddit
Do you have a group lease or individual leases?
Because there are typically definitely conditions that you can only have overnight guests like 15 or so times in a month