small claims?

I'm hoping it doesn't have to come to that. While this has probably ended what passed for a friendship between us, I don't feel the need to press the issue just yet.

Knowing that he's leaving, I might be able to get some personal leniency from my landlord. He's aware who the problem child in the relationship is, and flat out said to me yesterday that I should kick the guy out and find somebody who can afford to pay.

Because, like a grown up, I do actually talk to my landlord and tell him what's going on with me.

Good for you, for talking to the landlord. Because avoiding doesn't help anyone. And good for you, for talking to roomie. Hopefully, he will cough up some cash before leaving. By chance, do you have a written lease of some sort? Tracking his payments was also very good. That will help, if you need to take it to small claims.

Ugg. Really wish this wasn't all happening to you right now.

Way back when I had a friend who decided that since she didn't want to be friends with a mutual acquaintance she no longer needed to pay said acquaintance the several hundred dollars she owed. And then she said, "We're not friends anymore--why does she keep calling me about money?" I suggested a fool proof way to make the calls stop, but apparently paying her debts was just crazy talk. She was in her 20s at the time. I decided I needed better friends not long after.

Sean, I hope your roommate pays up, and quickly.

By chance, do you have a written lease of some sort?

All verbal, but quite straightforward and as you say, I have the written records to accompany it. Even though my landlord lets me take on a roommate, the lease doesn't actually allow me to sublet the room, so I believe I can't actually have a written agreement. But I'm also pretty certain the simple verbal agreement is enforceable, especially with the written record.

And frankly, that's why whatever friendship we had is pretty much toast over this. Too much abuse of my trust.

Sean, I'm glad you're rid of the leech. I've had friends like that. They never seem to "get it". Also glad you seem to have a reasonable landlord.

Sean, I hope the situation improves quickly, and that your soon to be ex-roommate pays you everything he owes.

I *thought* Em was too young to remember Bourbon Street. Apparently, I was wrong. She asked a girl in her class if she could see her boobs today.

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Also, that I am not, nor did I ever agree to be, parent to a 26 year old.

I am glad you are getting out that situation. It basically sucks.

In as much as I sometimes wish I could have a roommate, situations like Sean's make me glad I can't.

Hey, are any of us fiverrs?

I just got a great project done there and thought, if 'family' members were providers, I'd throw my work to them.