Entitled couple terminates lease without warning roommate, he gets petty and takes the fridge: 'I didn't have a leg to stand on'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Feb 12, 2025 8:00 AM EST

Typically, major communications between tenants and landlords should be discussed with all the folks living in the apartment. For instance, terminating a lease might be a topic to bring up with your roommate ahead of time. It's more than just common courtesy.

The behavior of the entitled couple at the center of this story certainly makes any difficult conversations I ever had with former roommates look like nothing. I thought I was in the wrong for giving a roommate six months in advance to plan ahead. These folks gave their roommate three weeks with no warning that he was going to be dealing with a move at all. Keep scrolling below for the full story!

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    KITCHEN
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  • Here, we have a roommate whose name was not on the lease (mistake #1) and who was forced to move out all of a sudden with three weeks to find a new place after the entitled couple with whom he was living decided to terminate the lease without warning. One would think that a heads up would be the decent thing to do, but in the mind of this couple, three weeks were more than enough time. Luckily, this guy managed to get another place lined up very quickly and decided to make those last few weeks particularly difficult for his now former roommates given the fact that they no longer had a refrigerator to their name…

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    I'd just moved to Sydney, and had been living in a sharehouse for a few months, that I found though a flat-share website. We got on ok, would go out to parties together etc. Most of the stuff in the house was theirs, I only brought my fridge, and they had just thrown theirs out, considering it replaced.
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    I'm about to get the week's groceries and ask my housemate if she wants anything, no she's good. I get lots of food to cook for the week and come home, to find her standing awkwardly with her boyfriend. She had "weird news." They had decided to move out together! How exciting! Ok, so I guess that means I take over the lease? Nope,
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    they considered themselves the last in a long line of friends who'd leased the house, and being the last to go, thought it fitting to terminate the lease. They had notified the landlord prior to speaking to any of us. They figured I could stay with my sister, jack was only in the country another month, and Sarah was hardly here anyway.
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    Ok so I didn't have a leg to stand on, legally, I wasn't signed on the lease, so I had 3 weeks to vacate. Househunting is like a part time job, and I already had a full time job. No time to cook all that food I guess. Would have been good to know before the shop.
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    I got lucky and found a house just down the road on the same day. Nice people, good spot, and close enough that I could move my things in by hand, immediately if I like! I slept in my new house that night, but I always like to think you haven't really moved in until your fridge is in, and don't worry I had that sorted too.
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    The others in the house found new places quickly too, leaving the happy couple home alone.
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    BEDROOM
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    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    I came back to pick up a couple of loose ends 3 weeks later and got to see their fridge workaround in all its slumly glory. An Esky full of food floating in melted ice. The revenge was petty and small, proportionate to their actions.
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    TofuDumplingScissors Wowie, didn't even have the common courtesy to talk to you about it before TERMINATING the lease.
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    This reflects pretty poorly on any and all decisions they're bound to make in the future. Good luck, dummies. Yeesh.
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    At least you were able to find another place pretty fast; I've had friends house hunting for months, only to have people buy houses right before they're viewing appointment. Bought. Even though the owners were originally looking for just renters.
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    get_in_the_tent OP. Yeah I was pretty offended by them talking to the landlord first, like there was no urgency until they set the arbitrary deadline. I would have happily taken on the lease.
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    ZZartin. Next time talk to the landlord right away. They likely didn't terminate the lease, it expired and they didn't want to renew. They didn't want to mention bringing you on at the time because subletting was likely a violation of their lease and would have cost
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    them their deposit + additional fees. It's also very possible that without actually knowing what was on the lease you were paying more than your fair share.
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    mildlyAttractiveGirl⚫ Lol I've done that. Classmate/house owner "kicked me out" of renting his spare bedroom the day before class started for the semester. I didn't own any of the appliances, but I did own all the lamps in the house and all the pool cleaning
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    equipment. And I was the one paying utilities. Signed a lease on an apartment that day, moved my utility account effective immediately, and got all my into my new apartment before he got
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    home. He texted me at the end of the day trying to tell me I had until the end of the month to find somewhere else, and yes I needed to pay rent and utilities for the month. Nah I'm good.
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    imsorryisuck. I still don't understand why they didin't discuss it previously?? if they move out in 3 weeks it's fine, you can find someone else to take their spot or something, it's your flat too it!
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    FiliaDei ⚫ "In all its slumly glory" is a phrase I will definitely be using in the future.
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    disco-vorcha. I once gave my freezer to a complete stranger so that the roommate that forced me out of the house couldn't use it. It wouldn't fit in my new place and that roommate was the only one of us who actually used the freezer (I'd gotten it from my parents when they got a smaller one). So I get it.
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    I_am_not_angry. They wanted to take the deposit back. Who ever signed the first lease paid a deposit, and everyone from then on just rolled that same deposit over to the next friend. By being the last they get that money back. move.
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    edgeofruin. I wonder if they have to supply a new fridge to the house for the landlord before moving out or if the old fridge dying was something that is the landlords problem. Hopefully it's their problem.
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