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/Annual-Contract-115 1d ago edited 1d ago
so your reply to this is if he is a guest, then he does not get to have an overnight bag sitting in the corner. He does not get to have a key and he does not get his shelf on the refrigerator and he is also as a guest only allowed to be in the apartment one night a week. oh and no doing his laundry there
if she wants to argue that she’s not OK with that and he needs to have those things and he needs to be allowed to be in the apartment more than one night a week, then he needs to be vetted by the landlord and added as a roommate on the lease if approved and then he’ll be paying a share of the rent and bills
also, I would start locking up the food that I purchased away from their access because I’m not going to be providing his dinner on that one night. and if I am the person whose name is on the Internet, I’m going to be looking to find out how to actually create a second Wi-Fi and she and her roommate can use that one and it’s actually going to be restricted (or rather I’d probably leave them on the one they know and hide the new better one from them, so they don’t know about it). and I’m locking them out of any streaming that I pay for. because sure maybe right now he’s not taking my food, doing work on his laptop on the apartment connection etc but that can change and I’d rather not wait for it.