I'm not here to complain about a roomate but several of my housemates. We have a couple living with us who share a room. They agreed they would each pay the same rent that we do but then go pissy because they ended up in one of the two smallish rooms and not the bigger ones. As compensation they demanded to pay less rent. We offered to swap but they refused saying that they want to pay less rent. (Bear in mind that they are only here for half of the week and go home thursday night - sunday night and the rest of us physically LIVE here). So we arranged for someone to take the tiny closet-sized spare room we have and pay rent on it to satisfy them by giving them Ł30 a month and we thought it had worked. But, we just found out they've lowered what they're paying the landlord. We should be ok because we're each on seperate contracts and not a group contract but I can see this hitting the fan soonish and them being all "the landlord wants us to pay the different so you're gonna have to make it up in our place". Now, I accept that they are sharing a small room so should pay less but this agreement was made before we moved in and if they had wanted to do this before we would have gotten a different house to live in because none of us can afford the rent hike that this would cause. But what REALLY fucks me off is the fact that me and my best friend bought ALL of the neccessities when we moved in; bins, toilet rolls, soaps, towels, cooking equipment, etc and they never gave us a penny towards it. They've never bought toilet rolls. They've never emptied the kitchen bins. And they've never cleaned. FUCKING ASSHOLES! ARRRGGGGGHHHHH
They're as bad as the rich lazy bitch who's living with us. She never does jobs unless we ask and her response to that is always "why should I?"
My room is under the stairs and the water pipes for the house run through one of my walls so i know every time one of the bathrooms gets used. I get woken up by people going up and down the stairs and by children riding scooers back and forth outside my window at 8am. My radiator never gets hot enough to warm my room and a few weeks ago the building light outside my window started to break and was flickering from 6pm to 6am. The curtains in my room are neither dark enough or thick enough to block it so every night I had to block my window with boxes just to get a good night's sleep. But do I demand to pay less rent? No. Do I do my share of the housework? Yes I fucking do and on top of that I cook a sunday roast from scratch every week for the household and some friends and I clean the house and do laundry.
Gah! I am so fucking sick of selfish fucking assholes. AGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!