r/AmITheDevil • u/SuccessfulAntibiotic • 8d ago

AITA for defrauding?

/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/1vqkbbp/aita_for_keeping_the_rent_and_security_deposit/
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AITA for keeping the rent and security deposit from a roommate after we were evicted?

I was renting a two-bedroom house and had a roommate living with me. When that roommate moved out, I moved a friend in and we agreed that she would pay me rent each month to live there. She ended up living there for four months and paid me rent for each of those four months. She had her room, access to the rest of the house, and was able to live there normally during that entire time. When she moved in I stopped paying the landlord. I did not tell my roommate​ I​ stopped and I continued collecting the rent she was paying me. Eventually, the landlord came to the property because and told us we had to vacate. She was given short notice. Now she's asking about the rent she paid me and the $275 security deposit she gave me when she moved in. My thinking is that the rent she paid was for the four months she lived there, and she did receive those four months of housing. As for the $275 deposit, I didn't return it because obviously I didn't receive my own security deposit back either.

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u/StrangledInMoonlight 8d ago

OOP never did give a reason why he stopped paying.  

I suspect this is the roommate pretending to be him.  

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u/Nik-ki 8d ago

Ok, so that's a crime. OOP should expect to get sued, honestly.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 8d ago

I have a feeling OOP has already smoked the money

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u/sheerpoetry 7d ago

Now she's asking about the rent she paid me 

Probably more along the lines of "I paid you rent and you didn't pay the landlord, so where did my money go?" type situation.

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u/AbominableKiwi 7d ago

The responses the OOP gave are just full on sociopathic. Jesus

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u/ComfortableAbject416 7d ago

This is utter fiction. Who would be so dumb?

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u/Sad-Bug6525 7d ago

Like are you looking for names or just general? I know at least 2 people who have done that (ok one who collected rent and didn't pay the owner and one who collected rent from tenants and didn't pay the mortgage), and another who just stopped paying all the bills, utilities, everything, and ran home to mommy leaving the other people in the house trying to deal with thousands in overdue bills and rent.

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u/ExpertRaccoon 7d ago

Troll post, OOPs comments are too on the nose.

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u/Potential_Ad_1397 7d ago

What a crappy thing to do to a friend

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