‘I took... everything’: Roommates try driving housemate out, so she leaves, taking all the furniture with her

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Eleonora Bader
Nov 28, 2023 6:00 PM EST

Unless you move in together with your best friend, chances are you are going to roll the dice and live with a roommate or two. The dice will spin around a few times until it plops onto a number that makes you gasp in delight, or grumble in despair. This woman got unlucky and found herself being slowly but painfully driven out by her roommates who were planning to kick her out. Once she caught a whiff of that, she realized she had to comply with her lease, and the quicker the better. So she set out to talk to her landlady, who had given the initial 'Okay' to the roommates to kick her out.

Then she hatched her own plan, and let's just say that it did not turn out quite as her roommates wanted it to. Find out what happened by scrolling down, and then when you are done, check out this office Karen who was trying to score points with upper management by throwing one employee under the bus. Tsk, tsk, so many employees out to get each other, huh? Enjoy the rest of your gloriously grey day, people, and don't forget to maliciously comply with whomever when you get the chance.

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    I moved out and took everything It became apparent to me last week that my roommates were trying to drive me out of the house to get one of their boyfriends in on my lease. When I told them I wanted to stay, they started staging incidents/messes around the house so they could yell at me for them and it all came to a head when they called a meeting with me two days ago.
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    I moved out and took everything S OC It became apparent to me last week that my roommates were trying to drive me out of the house to get one of their boyfriends in on
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    my lease. When I told them I wanted to stay, they started staging incidents/messes around the house so they could yell at me for them and it all came to a head when they called a meeting with me two days ago. One of them had to hold the other back as she screamed at me that she hated me
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    and I was not welcome in the building. They proceeded to tell me that I contributed nothing to the house and wasted their space and that they had gotten in with the landlady and convinced her to not renew my lease in June.
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    I told them I'd talk to the landlady and when they said they were the heads of the house I laughed and went on with my day. I spoke to the landlady and she acknowledged that they were out of hand and while she had given them the power to not renew my lease, she also said I could move out
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    whenever and not pay for a single day I wasn't there. So, yesterday when my roommates both left to visit family (they are sisters), I immediately called everyone I knew and vacated the house of everything I owned. I took the curtains, the rugs, all the cat toys and even the cat tower that I had
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    made with my mom. I took all of their things off my shelves and other furniture and stacked them in the middle of the now nearly empty living room. I snapped pictures of everything, handed the keys to the landlady and immediately I off.
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    They won't be back to the house until tomorrow. I've blocked them on everything so I won't get any angry messages, but I'm sure their faces will be priceless when they come home to a half-empty house with hundreds of dollars in storage and furniture gone. So much for
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    me not contributing anything to the house, now I actually don't. They also have to find someone else to take up the lease till boyfriend can move in when June comes around or they have to pick up my rent. Feels pretty good.
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    Nymyane_Aqua OP UPDATE: (12/30/22) 11 mo. ago It took a while for things to settle down but I'll just post a quick update on how everything is going.
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    -I emailed my attorney asking if the screenshots I took of my landlady's texts saying I could leave with no financial repercussions would protect me if she somehow changed her mind and wanted to charge me rent. He said I was good to go and would be covered by it.
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    Agreeable_Mango_1288 · 11 mo. ago Get a lease release in writing from the landlady. Include exemption from rent. CYA! 3.5k Reply Share Nymyane_Aqua OP • 11 mo. ago I have a text from her saying she exempts me from rent as soon as I leave Reply Share 2.7k
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    seanner_vt2 11 mo. ago My neighbor did this. I came home to find he and his family emptying the apartment of all his property. The couple he was living with were terrible to him. The screams I heard that evening when they got home and found the kitchen table, chairs, couch, TV, etc. all gone was hilarious. ✩ 2.0k Reply Share
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    CovertProphet84 - 11 mo. ago Sounds like you have a plan in place for living arrangements in the meantime? 624 Reply Share Nymyane_Aqua OP 11 mo. ago I'll be couch surfing until I can find a new place, but thankfully I have a lot of friends who are happy to let me stay a night or two here and there. Till I get my place, I've
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    moved all of my things into a storage unit. I live in a college town and so with a large portion of students graduating in January, I'll probably be able to get a spot in less than two weeks- I'm already talking with five prospective places. Reply Share 1.5k Covert Prophet84 - 11 mo. ago Good to hear, and good luck Reply Share 189
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    GRpanda123 11 mo. ago Wait does the cat not have a cat tower and toys now? Is it your cat ? Tell us more about the cat. Everything else good for you. Reply Share 23
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    MrRock Paper - 11 mo. ago Huh. You might have been living with my girlfriend's spoiled daughters, and if so good for you. What a couple of entitled little drama queens. 18 Reply Share
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    Narezza 11 mo. ago After 2 years with my roommates in college, we began to have some issues when they began to have issues with my girlfriend at the time. After a couple months of increasingly mean behavior, I told them that I would be moving out. Since I originally found the house had all the utilities in my name, I told them they would need to get this taken care of by X date.
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    They laughed it off and said whatever. I had all the utilities transferred over to my new house, and wouldn't you know it, those clowns didn't follow up with any of them. So their power and water get turned off on a Friday afternoon while they're in class, and my phone blows up, with them tell me I need to "do something about it" I said "I did, I moved out, that's your problem now"
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