Entitled housemate terminates lease with no warning, other resident complies but takes the fridge with her

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Feb 24, 2024 8:00 AM EST

There are a few universal rules of etiquette that come with shared living. Choosing to terminate a lease with no warning is certainly not following those guidelines.

Usually, the common problems with roommates involve their cleanliness, their noise levels, the amount of time they spend in the shower, etc. All of those issues are valid ones, but we've seen them all before. Rarely do you come across a housemate with so much audacity that she feels she is in the right to talk to the landlord behind the backs of the other residents in the unit in order to prematurely terminate the entire lease. No, the other residents did not do anything to deserve this. No, they had no power to reverse the decision considering they were never on the lease in the first place.

Thankfully, the person who shared this story on Reddit's r/MaliciousCompliance subreddit was able to find another place quickly. That being said, she couldn't just let this vindictive, entitled "friend" get away with this kind of impulsive, uncourteous behavior. So in return, she made sure they no longer had a working refrigerator.

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more content like this, here is the tale of a resident's petty revenge on his HOA.