My (21M) roommate (21F) and I moved into an apartment together about 5 months ago. We’re friends, and she was the one who found the place and put me on the lease to sign. I was nothing but respectful as a roommate. We split chores, I did my dishes, and there wasn’t any tension between us or so I thought.
One day, while I was out, she texted me, saying she needed to talk when I got home. When I returned, she sat me down and told me she wanted me to move out. She said she didn’t think she wanted to continue living with me. She’d already talked to the landlord and set a move-out date for January 1st.
I was blindsided but didn’t put up a fight. I decided to leave as quickly as I could because why stay somewhere I’m not wanted? I scrambled to find another place, and in the process, I realized something important: I paid for pretty much everything in the apartment.
The plates, couch, TV, router for the Wi-Fi (which I also paid for), and all the “cool stuff” in the apartment were purchased out of my pocket. So, I told her I’d be taking everything I bought when I moved out. She said, “Okay.”
On the day I moved out, I rented a truck and took all my things. She wasn’t home, so when she came back to the apartment, it was basically empty. She freaked out and started texting and calling me. When I answered, she went on a rant about how I “shouldn’t have taken everything,” how bad the apartment looked now, and how she was supposed to explain the situation to her friends.
I calmly reminded her that I’d told her I was taking the things I bought, and she agreed. She hung up on me but then started telling our mutual friends what happened. Now some of them are calling me an a**hole for leaving her in a “bare apartment,” while others say I did the right thing because it was all my stuff anyway.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t leave her with nothing. I left the mini fridge (though I took the liquor that was inside it), so I feel like I was considerate enough.
AITA?
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NTA.
This reminds me of another Reddit story about a renter who built a beautiful garden in the backyard of a house she rented. The landlord then informed her that he was going to sell the property and she’d have to relocate. She found another house… and took the garden with her. All the garden components were above ground in planters and other structures. When she moved, the landlord started to harass her for taking all of it with her since the house details included pics of the garden, which raised the overall property value. You only took what you brought with you. Your ex-roomie can kick rocks.
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I remember that one. The landlord even posted the for sale pictures of what she had done and because of that she was able to list it as a higher price. I remember.
RESPONCE
There is an even better one where a guy moves into a cheap apartment, and asks if he can remodel it, and says he will return it back to original condition when he moves.
Landlord said it was okay, and he remodeled with a signed contract saying he will return house to original condition. He worked at a company for high end model homes, and was able to take the whole kitchen and put it in the apartment in a week, placing all the old kitchen in a storage unit.
The landlord dies, and the daughter comes and sees how nice the apartment is, and then evicts the renter, saying she is selling the place. She takes pictures of the place to show in the ad.
So, he spends a week taking out the remodeled kitchen, and putting it back to original, and the daughter was pissed. He shows her the contract, and she is left with an apartment she can’t sell for what she wanted.
