Roommate Horror Stories

I was going on vacation over the time that rent was due, so I post dated a check for my roommate. Told her DO NOT CASH THIS UNTIL RENT IS DUE. She agreed.

I went on vacation.

Card declined.

Checked my bank account. She had cashed the check 2 days early. Her excuse? "When I normally cash a check, it takes 2 days to clear! I didn't think it would go so fast!" She cost me $300+ in bounced fees, I ended up having to close the account because I would be having overdraft fees for months, new checks etc.... it was a nightmare.

She did end up reimbursing me for the overdraft fees, but that was like pulling teeth. She honestly thought that the bank had an error.

not me, but my older brother... freshman at college, as was his roommate but the roommate was 28. when asked what he has been doing since 18, he said he was "just busy." there were two or three girls murdered while out jogging over the period of about a month on and around the campus. after a while of no arrest, the cops release the sketch of the suspect, based on eye witness account of one girl who escaped. well, it looks exactly like my brother's roommate. during the first night after the sketch as released, other people in the dorm slid copies of it under the door for my brother and his roommate to see. morning comes, there are like 50 sketches under the door. my brother wakes up to find his roommate leaving and asks where is he going? out, roommate says. comes back around lunch with his long blond hair now dyed black and cut in a crew cut and his lengthy beard completely shaved off. never says anything about it to my brother. after some phone calls home, my brother calls the police. my parents call the university and my brother has a new roommate within two days. never really sure what happened after that.

the guy also slept in his work boots. pretty weird.

**before cell phones
I went out of town for 3 days, my roommate told my boss and my fiance I moved to California and wasn't coming back.
I was an hour away for a few days doing some editing for my boss.

lost my job, fiance, and room all in one way. WTF.

Oh, let me just talk about mine. I've had some BAD ones.

First one, we didn't know each other. We were fine at first, but then she decided to throw a birthday party for one of her friends. I told her I didn't mind, I got free cake from it, why would I care. Well, that party turned into a MALE STRIPPER in the apartment. Normally I would mind, but he wasn't good and he brought friends. Friends that wanted to smoke substances...
Then after a noisy attempt to kick the stripper out, the birthday girl proceeds to throw up ALL OVER the apartment. And while this happens, all her friends run out screaming "eww" Leaving me to clean it up because I was not about to smell that!

Oh that reminds me of some roommates we (a friend and I) ALMOST had... my friend and I were going to move into these apartments that leased by the room (to avoid eviction situations like what you had).. well since there were only two of us and the apartment complex like to have all the rooms full, we were roommate "matched". Now this isn't typically a problem... but they matched us with a couple of girls that were 18 who listed their hobbies as "tanning and drinking"... which again, might not have been a problem if my friend and I weren't over 21 and they were 18.... anyway, they moved into the apartment below us and I always had to call the cops on them for super loud parties after 2 am (bass bumping and all), the smell of pot nearly every night... all that jazz... We got into arguments after a while... It was a good thing I told the apartment complex to not put them with us... I may have killed them.

I have the MESSIEST roommate ever!!!!

But I guess I'll just have to put up with it since I'm married to him.

:laugh: I know that one.

I had a roommate once who was a complete and utter pig, barely worked, spent what money he had on bowling, and was addicted to porn.

The only good thing I got from his was sperm......and my son.

I move in with a girl who had advertised a room online, It was fine to start with but then she got SUPER possesive of me, ONe night I drunk to much and decided to crash on my mates couch and woke up with like 35 missed calls and about 50 texts from her asking where I was, When I got home she went nuts and said she dosn't like to sleep in a house alone and that I have to stay there every night.. Then she stole all my mates numbers off my phone and started texting them trying to be friends with them to and she would follow me everywhere lol.. I'd go to town or something and would see her following me around trying to be stealth.. Or one time I went to the beach 2hours away with some mates and she followed me in her car lol..
Anyway I moved out and she went crazy so I ended up getting a restraining order on her...

Wow, a la Fatal Attraction.

I move in with a girl who had advertised a room online, It was fine to start with but then she got SUPER possesive of me, ONe night I drunk to much and decided to crash on my mates couch and woke up with like 35 missed calls and about 50 texts from her asking where I was, When I got home she went nuts and said she dosn't like to sleep in a house alone and that I have to stay there every night.. Then she stole all my mates numbers off my phone and started texting them trying to be friends with them to and she would follow me everywhere lol.. I'd go to town or something and would see her following me around trying to be stealth.. Or one time I went to the beach 2hours away with some mates and she followed me in her car lol..
Anyway I moved out and she went crazy so I ended up getting a restraining order on her...

Holy crap!

In college, I got a new roommate. People would say "Hi Katie" and she would say "That's not me, she's my twin" However, she wore a coat with the name Katie on it. She had no pictures of this twin. Her twin never visited, called, etc. Turns out there was no twin, she had gone to the school previously and had a bad reputation and didn't want people to know it was her. She was a little strange.

Sheesh! Some of you guys' stories scared the crap out of me!


Mines wasn't so bad in comparison. She was a bit on the messy side and was a little unstable. I chalked it up to her being about 18 or so, though I feel that was just my way or coping with her. We stayed in a dorm together and shared a community bath with maybe 6 or 7 other girls. She would constantly leave her mess in the bathroom (i.e. a tampon on the ground or blood on/IN the toilet, unflushed..a little TMI. Sorry y'all) and for some reason, the neighbors thought I was the person to talk to about this.

She had a boyfriend who lived on campus also and the two were constantly arguing over the dumbest **** ever. One evening after visiting the library, I come into my room to find glass smashed all over the floor in the room. Apparently they'd gotten into such an argument that she threw picture frames and THEN called him with a basketful of his items and threatened to set fire to all his things. This argument got us both written up for being incredibly loud (we always got written up because of her yelling when on the phone). And aside from her leaving food out for days because the MINI-fridge couldn't hold half the large **** she bought, she was incredibly religious and was always trying to force her ways onto me.

We are still friends thankfully, just not roomies.

My room mate problems aren't anything too dramatic. Probably typical bad room mate stuff.

I just moved to college into a two bedroom apartment that you paid rent by the room, so if no one was living in the other room you didn't have to pay for it. All expenses included, which was totally sweet. The first guy that moved in was a stranger I didn't know. He seemed friendly enough but didn't make as much of an effort to get to know me like I was trying to get to know him. Whatever no big deal. However I would come home some nights to see him with shirts on hangers hanging from our ceiling fan. He was trying to start his own line of shirts that he could sell. He had a stencil with his company logo with a spray bottle of bleach, which he would spray onto the stencil and get his logo on there. The living room pretty much stunk and I don't know about anybody else but his shirts were just plain hideous. A friend of mine who had started talking to him while I was out running an errand was told that he didn't like the fact that I was home every time he came home, which for some reason he thought was awkward. Thought that was a really weird reason and plus it was my first semester at college so I would study in my room a lot. Luckily after the semester he moved in with some friends of his. Good riddance.

That summer I didn't have a room mate which was really awesome. A two bedroom apartment all to myself!

Next semester I move in with one of my friends that I met in college. We would hang out every night and have friends over. It was a good time, but he was just a freaking pig when it came to cleaning up after himself. Dirty dishes and pans would stay in the sink for days on end until I cleaned them up. I told him several times to clean up after himself because it would be really embarrassing. I would have friends or potential girl friends over commenting all the time on how there was a huge pile of dishes in the sink. He cleaned up after himself for like the next day and then it was back to square one. After a year he moved home and I had to move to a different apartment.

This apartment was a four bedroom apartment which was also pay by the room. Good part about this place was that one bedroom was a handicap room so we would never have anybody in there and it was an open extra bedroom for guests. My room was right next to the living room, which was nice because if I needed to get something out of there while in the living room my room was right there. My first room mates were strangers that I didn't know but they were friends. It was ok at first, but a few problems arose. I would have some music on in my room and they would tell me to turn it down which I obliged. They would be playing Rock Band on the living room TV or playing music with 3 or 4 other friends in there and when I would tell them to turn it down they would for a few minutes and then it was back up again. I kind of let this slide because I figured I should have known what I was getting into with having a room right next to the living room. That was until I noticed some of my groceries were going missing. A loaf of bread, a bag of chips, some soda, and other items were just disappearing. I went grocery shopping one Friday so that I wouldn't have to do it when I got back from going home that weekend. I had a package of boneless skinless chicken breasts in the freezer that I wanted to use for fajitas on Monday night. I open the freezer to see its gone and I get freaking pissed. I confronted the female room mate and asked her which one of them ate my damn chicken breast. I was absolutely positive that I had bought some (still had the receipt) but when I confronted them about it they "didn't have any idea what I was talking about". They ended up moving out and breaking their lease because they said that the apartment kept turning their electricity off and "****ing with them". After I came back to the apartment from another weekend at home I was greeted to an empty apartment which I then proceeded to frolic and dance through in celebration that they were gone.

My last set of room mates were much more friendly than my last set of room mates. We didn't hang out or anything but were very social with each other when we saw each other. The best part was they loved to play poker, which I am an avid poker player. We would get about 8 or 9 people together for a poker game and it was a blast. My only gripe with them was that they smoked weed in one of the bedrooms and when they did the stench just ran through the entire apartment. I didn't complain about that because I figured I only had one more semester here before I graduated so I knew I could just put up with it for a little while. Plus they were probably the coolest room mates I had since I had been to college.

Anyways I know that was long. I tend to rant on.

I had a roommate once who was a complete and utter pig, barely worked, spent what money he had on bowling, and was addicted to porn.

Our lodger is like that, but replace the bowling with D&D, WoW and other similar stuff!

And fortunately not a porn addict

Just an untidy lazy git who keeps asking to borrow money off me and my GF

I had a roommate who feel in love with me and when I refused her advances she went psycho and pulled knives on me, and smeared my name so bad that it cost me a job. Another one accused me of stealing her stuff when I moved out, which is the opposite I left her so many things that were actually mine. I had one who who constantly ask me for money and to buy things for the house after she quit her job and then had the nerve to tell people i never paid for anything. I left when her drug addict boyfriend stole money i had given her out of her purse and then blamed me for it. Lived with my sister and her husband. they made me pay half the rent plus treated me horribly.

I have never had a roommate who didnt end up going psycho on me or **** me over. Even where I live now i get yelled at for everything, and they throw out healthy food i buy for myself so they have room for their crap. I have been saving up for a while to try and move out on my own because honestly i dont trust anyone enough to not **** me over.