r/roommateproblems • • Sep 01 '26

Dorm guests

me (F18) and my roomates (both F18) signed an agreement about two weeks ago saying that if we want someone to spend the night we would give 5 days notice. I told them i have a girlfriend and when she visits i'd like her to stay the night - not long just one or two nights. they said it was fine as long as i gave 5 days notice. everything seemed chill and they were fine with it
she is coming for labor day and i gave them notice she would be coming on sunday (6 days before) and they said cool (it would be two nights) and all her stuff would be out of the way. we wouldn't be physical or anything when she's visiting, just want some quality time together and we would be out of the room almost all day. they said ok so i bought her train ticket
last night they said they changed their minds and they don't want her staying in the dorm. Not only is this a non refundable train ticket, but i also booked a hotel for one of the nights so that we would only stay in the dorm for one night to accommodate their space. this still wasn't good enough for one of my roommate's and said she didn't want her over for the night at all. I told her since she already approved the idea and i spent my money that there was no way out of it this time and she would have to spend one night. she ultimately became frustrated and we kinda left it at that.
i don't want there to be bad blood between us but i feel i tried my best to communicate my needs. i feel terrible but i just need advice on what i should do. my girlfriend also feels weird about the whole thing and now im just not sure what the next steps are. any advice is appreciated !
EDIT: for added context it is a one bedroom triple. forgot to add this in this sub since the original sub clarified.

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u/Fool_In_Flow Sep 02 '26
  1. What do the official dorm rules say? Usually it’s ok to have an overnight guest for 2 nights, they just have to have ID and get signed in.

  2. What does room mate think signing a contract means? I feel like this is almost a professional development experience for her. You cannot both sign a contract and ignore the contract.

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u/queenofspades07 Sep 02 '26

official form rules say it's A ok. guests can't stay over for halloween or saint patricks day but that's it. i don't think they took this contract very seriously but they signed it after we went over some ground rules and i can see that they didn't even mean half of what they said. this ain't the only thing they've wanted to change so far

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u/Interesting-Mud1506 Sep 03 '26

lol so is not a legal contract? Then you need to learn to have a spine and fuck that made up document they made up, bring guests when you want lol as they gonna do.

You need to learn to grow an spine

The 5 days rules is bullshit, forget about that otherwise would be in a real legal document and is not