sighz
This ***** won’t stop messin’ until the day I die, I swear.
Ok, so here’s the story.
I have a crazy roommate. Those of you who follow my life’s drama, can pick up the previous saga from prior posts and threads and blogs.
Now here is the thing.
I have a kick-arse living room in my apartment here. The furniture in it is super old, super ugly, and very bulky and difficult to move.
My plan: Either I call some charity to pick it up, or I leave it with my roommate.
Well at the time, leaving it with her sounded great. Because it was a way to attract a roommate, and thereby, I could get my security deposit back.
Which is what happened. So I get my security deposit back and everything is running smoothly, and my bloody sister asks me if she can have the coffee tables.
I said sure, I just need to ask my roommate if its ok with her and her new roommate, as I’m moving out.
They both said it’s ok. In that same email they asked if the new roommate can move in one week early. The lease is still under my name until the end of the month, even though I’m moving out early.
So, I said sure. She asked at “NO EXTRA COST”.
I said, sure. I mean, I’m not going to ask her for any money.
Ok, so fast forward, and I tell her, I’m d/c 'ing the electricity and she can put the electricity on in her own name now. She throws a hissy fit, and says she can’t put the electricity on because she needed a week’s notice (BS, all it takes is a phone call, or internet service and she can do it on their website).
Then she says, well I’m responsible for the last week’s electric, because I said the girl could move in at ‘NO EXTRA COST’. I didn’t think that meant utilities, because YOU’RE using the utilities, not me, so YOU need to pay for them. I’m not going to charge her rent, but she needs to pay for utilities and anything extra.
So what? If she starts a tv service, or internet, then I have to pay for it too during that week?
I need help.
Here’s my worry. She is going to say - well, technically YOU STOLE THE TABLES, because you didn’t live up to your end of the deal which is pay for our utilities.
So basically, she took free tables, and then tried to sell them back to me on the pretense that I’d pay for the bills.
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She can accuse me of robbery.
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There were three tables, and I took all three, and I don’t exactly know why she thinks I only took two. Her emails now say two.
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I’m thinking of pulling the breaker, and then d/c’ing the electric, and she can turn it on whenever she wants. But she may not pay me her half. And any damages from the heat/lack of A/C/lack of the refrigerator being on may be pinned on me.
The electric is in my name, and I feel like once I am no longer living there, I should pull it. She’s just trying to bully me using these tables to pay her roommate’s bills, which is peeving me off.
I don’t know whether I should just return the tables to the apartment at this point. I still have the keys and I’m holding them till the end of the month. This girl is not moving in early under ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
What’s more is I don’t even know who the new roommate is, because my roommate wont tell me her name or give me her contact info. She does all the talking on my behalf.
So, here’s what I did.
I got the keys back which I turned in this morning. So I have my keys. New roomie can’t move in without them.
I told this piece of work, that she needs to tell her new roommate to contact me directly if she wants to move in early. She’s going to get a crapload of paperwork as she’s physically moving in while I’m not there, and legally, I’m responsible for the unit.
I am pulling the electricity today. Tonight I’m going to pull the breaker (I don’t even know what that is because Im so goddamn sheltered, so I have to take my dad, who refuses to teach me any of this stuff, to get it done for me “bhas, mein kar ke doonga” routine at home - great, I don’t even know basic survival crap).
And if she wants no electricity, she can let the apartment sit that way for one month. The apartment bldg has a policy that electric has to be on. It’s ok by the leasing dept if the electricity is off for a few days because they understand how whack this girl is. But if she refuses to turn the electricity on, I don’t want to get faulted for that.
I also told her I aint’ paying any remaining electric bills under her name, until she pays me for the rest of the electric bill under my name.
Urgh.
Sorry if this is disorganized and confusing because my entire friggin life right now is disorganized and confusing.
