Living with roommates requires a certain amount of trust. Not a huge amount, necessarily. You don’t need to become best friends. But you do need to trust that everyone is operating under the same understanding of how things work. That’s why stories like this are so frustrating to read. And although the money part it’s quite important, well, really important. What’s even moreshocking is the fact that this roommate seems to have made every single decision completely on his own and then acted surprised when everyone else wasn’t thrilled about it.
He got an internship and needed to sublease his room. Fair enough. That’s a pretty normal thing to do. But instead of treating it like a shared housing situation where other people might deserve some input, he apparently decided to play landlord for the summer. He picked the tenant, set the terms, chose the end date, and signed the agreement before even showing the contract to the people who would still be living there. That’s the part that would annoy me. There’s a certain type of person who mistakes making decisions alone for being helpful. They create a plan, execute it without consulting anyone, and then expect praise for all their hard work. Meanwhile everyone else is left dealing with the consequences.
Author: Kayitsi.com
