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Roomates Suck!

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Agreed with sniperruff and oldsmoboat. If he gives you crap then he isn't worth the trouble and I'd just go get my own place.
 
get your own place, its so much better. the freedom to do whatever you want, whenever you want, to whomever you want is worth the extra money
 
Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
be nice to your roomie and give him some midol.
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LOL, thats funny sh!t, if you only knew him.

I had mentioned to my other friend that is willing to get a place with me before about the 3 of us getting a place and he said that he wouldn't want to live with my current roommate because he's too moody. :laugh:
 
Like everyone else, I'd have told him, "Fine. Since you're getting the larger room, my rent drops $90/month." After all, he seems to have it in his head that the larger room shells out the lion's share of the cash. If he does not agree, fvck him. You got a lead on a new place, take that. Or get your own, depending on how your relationship is with the other friend.

Either way, don't be a doormat to that loser. And if you do do something like this, :camera: are required of his expression of suddenly being forced to scramble for a new place or roommate before the lease is up.
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Originally posted by: sniperruff
well i'd gladly take the smaller room and make him pay $80 more than i do.
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$90 since he's so sure the guy w/the bigger room should pay 20 more 😉
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nope.

OP pays $70 more now

after rent is raised, guy with bigger room pays $20 more
the guy with smaller room pays $10 more

so it's 70+ (20-10)= $80 more.

=)
 
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Like everyone else, I'd have told him, "Fine. Since you're getting the larger room, my rent drops $90/month." After all, he seems to have it in his head that the larger room shells out the lion's share of the cash. If he does not agree, fvck him. You got a lead on a new place, take that. Or get your own, depending on how your relationship is with the other friend.

Either way, don't be a doormat to that loser. And if you do do something like this, :camera: are required of his expression of suddenly being forced to scramble for a new place or roommate before the lease is up.
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Hum, I've never heard of the "Lion's Share" saying before, nice one.

And I'll do my best to take pics if it comes to that :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
Originally posted by: Yossarian
Originally posted by: sniperruff
well i'd gladly take the smaller room and make him pay $80 more than i do.
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$90 since he's so sure the guy w/the bigger room should pay 20 more 😉
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nope.

OP pays $70 more now

after rent is raised, guy with bigger room pays $20 more
the guy with smaller room pays $10 more

so it's 70+ (20-10)= $80 more.

=)
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I really don't know where to start with just how wrong that logic is.

ZV

EDIT: Nevermind, I see what you're saying. You're basing it off of the future payment by the lower-paying roommate. I was thinking it would be based off the current payment of the lower paying roommate. (I.e. roommate pays $90 more than roommate currently pays, OP pays $60 less than OP is currently paying.)
 
Lots of interseting replies here, my whole thing is that I'd never expect someone to give up their room for me, I would never even ask it, if the space was that much of an issue for me I'd suggest getting a bigger place or not agree to renew for another year with the other roommate. Just seems kind of crazy to me to expect someone to give up their room for your own personal want.

But maybe I'm the crazy one?
 
We had the EXACT same situation here.

Our solution was to raise the rent by the same proportion. You shouldnt expect it to be 50/50 if the rents arent 50/50.

I live in the small room by far, and I too was feeling cluttered. Wasnt ready to move out over it, but I just decided to move my shelving into the dining room that we never use anyway, and pay a bit extra rent for basically taking over another room.

I wasnt considering taking someone else's room, considering our beds wouldnt even fit, and unless its something that was spoken about before, dont even consider it.

Split the rent in proportion, and allow him to have some extra space if he wants, provided that that changed the proportion of the rent. Otherwise, stand your ground, and find a new place if you have to.
 
Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Originally posted by: jdub1107
Originally posted by: yobarman
Just share the room dick. My 2 roomates and I have 3 seperate rooms, mine being at least 2 times smaller than the largest bedroom, and we all pay the same amount. I'm not bitchin'
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You must be crazy or rich. Most people aren't willing to pay more for nothing. I've know people that actually measure out the footage of the bedrooms and divide the rent up accordingly.
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Would make more sense to add the sq ft of the bedroom to the sq ft of common areas...and then each pay a fraction based on those numbers
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Wouldn't the common areas just cancel each other out? What would be the point of adding them to the equation? Maybe I'm missing something here.
 
Originally posted by: blazert40
Lots of interseting replies here, my whole thing is that I'd never expect someone to give up their room for me, I would never even ask it, if the space was that much of an issue for me I'd suggest getting a bigger place or not agree to renew for another year with the other roommate. Just seems kind of crazy to me to expect someone to give up their room for your own personal want.

But maybe I'm the crazy one?
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No, he's being a d!ck. If things are turning sour it's best just to get out now. It only gets worse.
 
:camera: of the ensuing knife fight? 😀

anyways, what's to stop him from saying he wants the small room back after he finds out he can't cope with the extra $80 in rent? just move out and end the lease.
 
Originally posted by: jdub1107
Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Originally posted by: jdub1107
Originally posted by: yobarman
Just share the room dick. My 2 roomates and I have 3 seperate rooms, mine being at least 2 times smaller than the largest bedroom, and we all pay the same amount. I'm not bitchin'
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You must be crazy or rich. Most people aren't willing to pay more for nothing. I've know people that actually measure out the footage of the bedrooms and divide the rent up accordingly.
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Would make more sense to add the sq ft of the bedroom to the sq ft of common areas...and then each pay a fraction based on those numbers
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Wouldn't the common areas just cancel each other out? What would be the point of adding them to the equation? Maybe I'm missing something here.
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This is what we did. Theres 3 of us, and our rooms are 1, 1.5 and 2 in proportion to each other.

We took the common area, and divided it by 3. Then took the size of the rooms, and added those to the third of the common area. There's everybody's rent. No one can complain, because its mathematically perfect. So rather than the person with the biggest room paying twice the person with the smallest room, its more like 1.4.
 
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