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    Woman exposes secret roommate’s friend to landlord after months of living for free in their apartment: ‘Girl you’re in my living room rent free’

    Living with roommates requires clear communication, shared financial responsibility, and respect for the agreement that has been made. Those are the basic foundations for a peaceful life with roommates. Also, good accounting makes good friends… Well, in this apartment, all of those boundaries were crossed.

    This tenant made a post expressing her frustration in the Reddit AITA subreddit, explaining that she moved into the apartment aware that her roommate's friend was staying there temporarily. But temporarily doesn't mean forever.

    The agreement seemed understandable at first, but over time, this third unofficial roommate kept finding excuses not to contribute, turning a temporary agreement into an unfair living situation.

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    • This model represents three roommates discussing rent and household duties during a conflict over a freeloading tenant.
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      This model represents three roommates discussing rent and household duties during a conflict over a freeloading tenant.

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    • AITAH For telling my landlord about my secret third roommate?

      I (23F) am living with a roommate (28F) and her friend (28F) is living in our living. room. Before I moved in, I was made aware of this person. I was told she was getting back on her feet financially and she would be contributing to rent and helping cook and clean. She was living
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    • there before I moved in, and I moved in January. It is now approaching the end of May, and this roommate has still not paid any rent. I have been growing resentful, as I have asked my roommate several times if she is able to pay rent and have not heard any clear answers and she has not helped. She has a car, an office job, and
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    • works full time. I have my personal stipulations about living with her like she probably has the loudest voice I have ever heard late at night too, she gossips nasty all the time and leaves for weeks at a time with her stuff still being in the living room.
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    • She sleeps on a couch bed thing that takes up quite literally the entire living room and her stuff remains there and throughout the living room the weeks she is gone. One day she was telling me about
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    • her su ir daddy and followed up saying "I know it's hard to be jealous of other people who are doing well." Because she knows I am struggling financially with my minimum wage job. I girl you're in my living room rent free. That's what really pi d me off.
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    • So she's taking over the entire living room, contributing very little to cleaning or household responsibilities, living there like this for months, and still expecting someone else to keep subsidizing her? 

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      This image pictures two roommates deciding what to do with the third unofficial roommate.

    • I told my roommate I want her to start paying rent and I feel she is taking advantage of the situation. My roommate basically said she'd ask again and she'd try. Well the girl messaged me with a
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    • voice note saying that she lives on and off with her parents and they're fighting and she'll "do some numbers" because she could possibly help with rent and she'd be "happy to help." I said I do not want her
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    • to live there unless she is paying rent like was agreed. I told my roommate that too with vague responses. I then told my roommate I was going to involve the landlord. Our landlord is extremely kind and has made a plan with me to get back on track with rent, and I expressed that
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    • she will be kind and understanding about the situation that she'd probably just want to add her to the lease or have us make a private agreement with her. She told me she would pay money by the end of the month but I'm done. My roommate
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    • The tenant even tried giving her many opportunities to contribute, but every conversation ended with vague promises or excuses that never really changed anything. In the meantime, the tenant was still financially supporting the house. That is not something you can casually play around with; you are causing someone else's financial hardship and you are also benefiting from that by refusing to properly contribute.

    • has told me multiple times she would do that. I expressed I don't want to be the one to enforce things in an agreement I didn't even make, and I shouldn't have to get so serious for her to take paying rent seriously. They both were texting me
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    • saying oh we're all going to get kicked out, but I know that won't be the case. I explained the landlord will actually enforce these expectations so they aren't just words. Even though I now have
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    • A representation of a woman calculating rent and apartment expenses while reviewing household finances.
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      A representation of a woman calculating rent and apartment expenses while reviewing household finances.

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    • promises from them that she will pay, it's too late. AITAH? My roomie is extremely kind and lenient to an extreme degree- she expressed to me even that she'd like the roommate to help with rent and to be
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    • able to use the space but I know she's going to back her friend. My roomie even threatened to find a new place to live. I feel like I'm arguing with children.
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    • She did the right thing by bringing the issue to the landlord because nobody took her concerns seriously until the landlord was brought to the scene. If she had stayed quiet, the situation would have continued the same way for even longer. She tried to have an adult conversation many times, but she got ignored every single time, so involving the landlord was the only way to resolve the situation. 

    • Due-Yoghurt4916 Your roommate should have been paying 2/3 if she wanted her friend there. Doesn't matter which paid it. It was her choice to have her friend live there. She only took a third roommate for you to subsidize her lifestyle
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    • Teamtunafish Going to the landlord was precisely the right move. People will trespass upon you exactly as long you allow it.
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    • Top-Bit85 Your landlord may throw her out, your place may be too small for three in a legal sense. Either way you need her and all her stuff out,
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    • Particular_Agent171 I want you out. Four words, said to her face. That's all you gotta do.
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