28-year-old gets promoted, roommate finds out and demands that she pay 80% of the rent: 'she saw my bank account and [...] confronted me immediately'

This roommate fiasco is not going to end well. When you're in your early twenties and you move in with a friend, you may not necessarily know what you're in for at the start. After all, you might not be making much money yet, and you might be in a desperate situation to find an affordable but decent place to live. 

Most roommates establish boundaries from the get-go as both parties figure out the logistics of their situations, primarily with the hopes that everything is equal. This could mean anything from how the apartment is decorated to the financial breakdown of the bills to pay. Today, we're going to be talking about the latter. 

Of course, ideally, in an equitable partnership between roommates, there is a 50/50 split when it comes to rent, utilities, groceries, etc. Sometimes, roommates will divide these bills differently if one person makes a considerably greater salary than the other, but that is absolutely not guaranteed unless it's agreed upon by both parties. Check out this tale of roommate tension when one tenant discovered just how much the other tenant's promotion was…

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