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Originally posted by skiguide
omg, I'm so over roommates... I can't believe most of you even still put up with that shit. its not freakin' worth saving a few hundred bucks.
having a place of my own is gonna be so good for a change.
had a crazy nutjob roommate in college, so she probably turned me off to living with anyone more than living with the bf did - still not nearly as crazy as some of your stories.
junior year my roommate (from AK) & I decided to get out of the dorms & into a place 2nd semester, so we started asking around, found out these 2 other girls (jen & monica) wanted to sublet out, but sara still would stay. we went over there, met the girls moving out, sara - all seemed cool -in fact, the girls moving out would hang out with us later -
turns out sara was fucking lying about going to class all along, even though her mom did work for umass - she could have been going for free. at one point, she did claim she was pregnant & supposedly got some money from a friend (not us) and had an abortion - we actually have no idea if that was true or not, b/c we didn't go with her - but we guess that it wasn't really true.
shortly thereafter we found out she hadn't been paying her portion of the rent for several months to the complex, so it finally got up to around 12 to 1500 or so - and we notified we were on the verge of eviction if we didn't pay up- she promptly disappeared.. clothes off her back, pretty much that was all - left everything else - except she took the AK roommates' ATM card & Got the max withdrawl out of it (later returned by bank)
Tried calling her family in town for any sign of her, no go - they didn't speak to her anymore. turns out she'd written/stolen lots of bad checks, done some other similar shit.
so after many go rounds with the complex (AK's dad was a lawyer) - which included arguing to them that sara didn't have the immense pain in the ass background checks that we had to go through to sublet -because she clearly wouldn't have passed. so the two of us, and the jen & monica, the girls who sublet to us, all were liable for her portion of the rent - so we all had to pay up. sucked the big one.
monica later moved back in to take sara's spot, so that made things somewhat better.
but I'd never move in again with someone random that I didn't know.