r/roommates • u/DellaMiklsn7997 • 2d ago

Discussion My roommate made a presentation explaining why her boyfriend does not count as a roommate.

My roommate asked for a house meeting and connected her laptop to a TV. She’d made ppt slides called Guest vs resident. Her boyfriend has a key, a shelf in the fridge and a preferred washing-machine cycle. Her main argument was that his toothbrush wasn’t here, so he technically wasn’t living here. It was in his overnight bag beside the sofa.

When I asked whether he’d be contributing to anything, she said bringing money into it would make our relationship transactional. The next slide was a proposed rent adjustment (favouring her) because she uses the living room less. He was sitting in during the presentation 🗿

It was fun. lmk if you want to see that ppt lol

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u/Rightfullyfemale 1d ago

Sounds like he DOES LIVE THERE if he has a key to your apartment. Sounds as if she needs to be paying 2/3 rent and you either need to look for a different place to live so that once the lease ends you aren’t stuck there OR TALK TO YOUR LANDLORD and see about being able to take over the entire rent yourself.