All of the stuff you listed is part of having a roommate. Especially when you didn't choose him (friend etc...).
Your roommate's friend sounds like a potential squatter. It will be in your best interest to monitor the situation closely. You will want to take action proactively, before the friend in question gets comfortable.
The only thing that would seriously bother me is being careless about leaving the door unlocked. I would get that squared away.
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having roommates means having to put up w/ certain little quirks - we all have them. i live alone now, but when i had roommates im sure i did annoying stuff too. btw, living alone is awesome. i bought a house and wanted to live alone - i could have gotten a nicer place closer to downtown austin, but i got a cheaper house so i didnt have to take in a roommate - and its great. and i only live 5 miles from downtown anyway. but the key thing i would not be cool with - i could understand the girlfriend having a key (as long as i knew her and trusted her), but not his friends. and not locking the door is stupid. thats something that i would kick someone out over if it was a continual problem. now, let me tell you about my last roommate - one of my best friends, but the 2nd worst roommate ive ever had. at any given time he owed me anywhere from $100 - $500. always late on bills and took almost a year to pay me back for his share of the deposit. never took out the trash, never set the trash out at the curb for pickup, never cleaned the bathroom (except once when i made him), never vacuumed (we both owned dogs, so it needed to be done about twice a week), hardly ever walked his dog (i walked him at least 5x's as much), never mowed the lawn and generally never took responsibility for anything. gets a girlfriend w/ a dog who comes over and pees all over our house, including in my room. it took a few times over to realize it was her dog. at that point i ask that they not bring the dog over anymore, which they agree too, but then about a week later i catch them sneaking the dog into his room at night. the next morning we get into a big argument over it and dont speak for a month, which was awkward at best. but at least that p.o.s. dog wasnt over anymore. he ended up apologizing, but it was still pretty f-ed up. we are still friends, but i would sooner see him living under a bridge and turning tricks just to survive than allow him to live in my house.
Exactly. I had 4 different roommates my freshman year (2 in the fall and 2 in the spring). The last one I had was forced on me and the guy was a total punk. We were roommates for about 3 days before I moved out and got a private room (made my parents pay for it which they weren't happy but oh well) because if we had stayed together, someone was going to get hurt from a physical confrontation. The roommate situation is bad because: 1) If you room with someone you know like a friend, most of the time when it is over (the semester for example), you are no longer as good of friends with this person as you were before you lived together (that happened to me with the guy that I roomed with during my sophomore year) 2) If you room with someone you don't know, you are taking your chances that this person is going to be mature and a decent person but you have no idea knowing if that will be the case. So, as a result, you will have stuff like buddies of his coming over that you don't know about or him leaving the door unlocked or coming in during the middle of the night and waking you up and all kinds of other stuff. So the conclusion is to always try to live by YOURSELF if you can afford it!
Where did you meet this roommate? Are you in college? Also I would be very concerned and upset if his friend showed up at my place with a key... Even if it was for a day....
Man, I had AWESOME roomates......always with friends or girlfriends.....never had any of these issues. Or, maybe I was their issue..... LOL - who knows.... DD
I have a roommate who does a few things that annoy me too, but we gotta deal with them. I find it kind of rude if someone unknown has the key, and they don't need to be at the house/apt when my roommate is not there.
i had roommates for 13 years in 7or8 apts/houses and during that time i only had 2 really horrible roommates and then 3 that were somewhere b/t horrible and almost tolerable. i definitely had more great than bad ones.
I saw this on HOLYTACO and had to post it in this here thread :grin: : http://www.holytaco.com/9-worst-roommates-you-will-ever-have I think your roommate is somewhere between #8, #6, and #3.
