'It was a nightmare living situation': College student averts $500 fine by sparring with roommate, malicious compliance ensues

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    Don't touch MY stuff MOC In college, I had a randomly assigned roommate that I did not get along with at all. Our personalities were just on two opposite ends of the personality spectrum and we clashed. The only things we had in common were that we went to the same college and lived in the same apartment. That's it.
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    Anyways, it was a nightmare living situation. The apartment had four rooms and two bathrooms. She and I shared the same bathroom as our rooms were next to each other. We had two roommates on the other half of the apartment that we both got along with.
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    After over 8 months of just pure passive aggressiveness towards each other (like, I would put sticky notes on her days old dirty dishes and she would put my wet laundry on the floor), she decided to report me to apartment management for "bullying" her. Honestly, we were doing it to each other.
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    However, the apartment management took pity on her because I was tall and athletic and she was 6 inches shorter than me and very thin. She claimed I "physically intimidated" her and she was scared to live with me. She did this because she wanted to move to a new apartment without paying a $500 fee but instead the apartment issued a written warning.
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    The warning stated that we were not to touch any of each others personal belongings without written permission. First infraction was a $250 fine. Second infraction was a $500 fine. And a third infraction would result in eviction. I was so scared walking out of the office because I could not afford those fines and she had the biggest smile on her face. I knew that she would immediately report me.
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    I went back to the apartment and she left for work. I was mortified. Then I realized she made a huge mistake. Everything communal in the apartment belonged to me and she was a super moocher. I told my other roommates what had happened and they were shocked. I asked if I could use their bathroom temporarily and they said "of course."
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    So, I immediately emptied out everything that was mine in our shared bathroom (shower curtain, toilet paper, rug, towels, soap). I grabbed my magnetic whiteboard and listed out everything in the kitchen that belonged to me (plates, cups, mugs, pots, pans, silverware, coffee maker, toaster, pot holder, towels, literally listed every single item) and said that she is not allowed to use any of without my written (no texts) permission. I also drew some eyes to remind her that everyone was watching.
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    Later, she came home from work and had a meltdown. She screamed!!! Not any words, just a blood curdling scream!!! In the following couple of days, her father came to the apartment to threaten me that they were getting a lawyer (lol), she bought her first roll of toilet paper and a plastic shower curtain, but it was too much for her to handle. She went back to the main office to report my "bullying" once again and was instead told she could either deal with it or pay $500 to move to a new apartme
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    luvgsus A lawyer? Really? How childish of her and her father. 4 2.4k Reply Share
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    subzerojosh_1. Her dad will hire a lawyer but not pay 500 bucks to move her daughter? That's logical 1.7k Reply Share
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    clutzycook I lived in a similar student apartment in college. My Junior year, I lived with 3 girls who were a year ahead of me in school. They were all friends and just needed a 4th person for the apartment. How bad could it be, right? Wrong! They were noisy, little &#%* who used my food and stuff without permission, never included me in anything and were obsessive about the thermostat (they insisted on keeping the AC off during a major heatwave in early September when we lived on the top floor
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    They also brought in a cat against the rules of our lease and even though they promised I wouldn't be fined for it, I still was. I did my best to make it through the year mostly by staying with my boyfriend who lived in the same building or spending as much time in my room as possible (honestly, I don't think I spent more than a few hours in our common areas the entire year outside of preparing meals). I learned my lesson after that. I lived with 3 friends the following year and after that never
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    fibonacci_veritas. That's amazing. I'm curious though, what kind of apartment building management interferes with the property/relationships inside of an apartment? Was this university residence? In Canada the apartment managers would have nothing to do with roommate disagreements and have no clout to levy fines for such issues. 357 Reply Share
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    zardkween OP. Yeah so this was an off- campus apartment not affiliated with my college. It advertised itself as for college students but it was open to everyone. What they did was nootttt legal at all. I got home from class and was called to the management office where the property manager put us in a room and we had a "roommate mediation" where the property manager got "both sides of the story" before forcing us to sign an agreement regarding the "3 strikes you're out" fine. It was absolutely t
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    Edit to add: I did complain about the incident to the corporate office but the apartment complex was purchased by a new management company so the complaint never went anywhere outside of getting a phone call asking what happened. 418 Reply Share
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    orangeisthe_color. I had a roommate EXACTLY like this - she even bought a powerline adapter that plugged into the WiFi router and syphoned all the bandwidth directly to her computer so she could sit in her room and happily game while nothing loaded for the rest of us. Naturally, we started just going to the router and turning the adapter off at the plug.
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    It caused a lot of passive aggressive door slamming, stomping, and at its peak that adapter was being turned on and off about 20 times a day. Eventually, she started a screaming match over it, during which she yelled "IT'S SIMPLE, JUST DON'T TOUCH MY STUFF!"
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    Jackpot. I replied "No problem! You can stop touching my stuff then that includes every single pot, pan, plate, fork, knife, spoon, tea towel, glass, mug, etc in the kitchen. Doesn't feel quite as fair when it's you who can't use house essentials, right?"
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    She was pretty stunned to say the least. Sadly didn't stop her being a grade A for the rest of the year but the moment itself was pretty satisfying... 237 Reply Share ...

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