Living with roommates can be a wonderful experience or an absolute nightmare. Of course, this depends on the people you share your space with. For example, there’s this abusive woman in New York who is taking over the entire apartment with her clutter, leaving her roommates with no space and seemingly trying to evict them. Imagine renting a space where someone else’s belongings invade the common areas, and they get upset if you even breathe near their boxes. This is an extremely uncomfortable and unfair situation.
On Reddit, Merlysauce shared a series of posts on r/badroommates called “My roommate wants the 4br to herself.” In the posts, OP explains that they had recently moved into a four-bedroom property with two roommates. The problem started long before that because the female roommate was already using all the common areas of that property in New York as if it were a storage unit to keep her clutter, and as a measure to “try to evict other tenants”. This roommate already had several large containers, at least six, stacked in the dining room. In addition, there were countless boxes, all of them in the way in the kitchen. Other ones were even blocking the entrance to one of the other rooms.
From the beginning, OP tried not to interact with that roommate, but living together was getting worse. In addition to the clutter, the roommate refused to use the same trash can and also took everything that wasn’t hers out of the dishwasher. That’s why OP and another roommate teamed up to complain to the property management, sending photos of how the roommate was breaking the rules. Yet, the company was slow to respond and even slower to take action. Supposedly, the woman and the management agreed that the hoarder would leave at the end of the month due to her hostility towards her roommates.
However, in the latest update, OP explained that the deadline had passed. Also, the roommate is still in the property and has even paid for another month. In part, this woman’s behavior became less complicated, as she “put some of her things away” to make more space. The problem is that she stored them in one of the empty rooms.
‘She’s not paying rent. She was supposed to move out by now. She’s starting to occupy a different tenant’s room as well as her own. Tell the landlord she hasn’t left and is taking over a second bedroom.‘ Said the user curiousity60.
Although this “solves” the problem somewhat, something worse happened: the roommate began sharing very personal details of her life with OP, as if they were very close. Still, OP continues to complain to the company that manages the property and keeps her distance from the woman.
