Shyster.
April 18, 2015 6:49 PM Subscribe
Pretty sure my roommate has unfairly renting my room for more than his. It's a two bedroom place, and it's a dump, but in a great part of the city. He's on the lease, I'm not. I have not seen this lease.
I hate to be one to jump to conclusions.
So, my roommate got around to putting my room up on CL. I gave him notice almost 3 weeks ago. There was no lease involved - it was a month to month agreement, I paid a deposit for one month.
The new ad is largely the same from what I replied to, except the price of the room has gone up significantly - it's now 15% what it was before. That's fine, if a new lease was signed (as rent oft goes up during that), but it wasn't - he's just offering the room for more money than before.
That's seems pretty low to me. Then it got me thinking: did he do the same to me? What is the total rent for this dump? Further down the hole. How much % of the utils. have I been paying. Has it been 50%, or you know, a little more? I've been asking him to post the bills on the refrig. so I can check them out, and then just add the total of my share to my monthly rent check. Instead he insists I pay internet, utils and rent seperately. It's pretty awkard to do for me, and pretty convenient for him. If he's adding more to mine than his, that's pretty, I dunno: awful.
What to do in this situation? I am happy to pay (have paid?) half the rent, even though they have the off street parking (I don't drive, and have no car), the larger room, and have taken over the living room area, leaving me very marginalized. I've never been in a situation where I've thought there's been foul play in paying rent in the living situation. I'm worried that they'll come up with an excuse to not give my deposit back. Do I call him on this? If so, how? We've never had the best repoire. I'm living because of our exceptional incompatibilities, feeling marginalized in my own living space, the noise of the place, and the general strangeness of this dude.
I feel this is simply a learning experiene at this point.
I hate to be one to jump to conclusions.
So, my roommate got around to putting my room up on CL. I gave him notice almost 3 weeks ago. There was no lease involved - it was a month to month agreement, I paid a deposit for one month.
The new ad is largely the same from what I replied to, except the price of the room has gone up significantly - it's now 15% what it was before. That's fine, if a new lease was signed (as rent oft goes up during that), but it wasn't - he's just offering the room for more money than before.
That's seems pretty low to me. Then it got me thinking: did he do the same to me? What is the total rent for this dump? Further down the hole. How much % of the utils. have I been paying. Has it been 50%, or you know, a little more? I've been asking him to post the bills on the refrig. so I can check them out, and then just add the total of my share to my monthly rent check. Instead he insists I pay internet, utils and rent seperately. It's pretty awkard to do for me, and pretty convenient for him. If he's adding more to mine than his, that's pretty, I dunno: awful.
What to do in this situation? I am happy to pay (have paid?) half the rent, even though they have the off street parking (I don't drive, and have no car), the larger room, and have taken over the living room area, leaving me very marginalized. I've never been in a situation where I've thought there's been foul play in paying rent in the living situation. I'm worried that they'll come up with an excuse to not give my deposit back. Do I call him on this? If so, how? We've never had the best repoire. I'm living because of our exceptional incompatibilities, feeling marginalized in my own living space, the noise of the place, and the general strangeness of this dude.
I feel this is simply a learning experiene at this point.
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, this sounds like a frustrating system but as framed this is more of a complaint/speculation than it is a concrete question that really fits on Ask. -- cortex
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posted by salvia at 6:56 PM on April 18, 2015