Author Topic: Kicking Out A Roommate  (Read 15381 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Kicking Out A Roommate
« on: April 08, 2008, 06:49:05 PM »
So I've had a friend from high school living with me for the past couple of months.  We weren't "good friends", but it was more of a "he's friends with my friends" thing.  I felt more comfortable living with him than a complete stranger as I desperately needed someone to help me out with rent money. 

Although he's very good with money and always pays on-time, he just really gets on my nerves.  I'm about fed up with him, and I can't really say it's his fault.  More of just a "different personalities" thing, really.

Anyways I'm looking to kick him out and was wondering what the appropriate way to do that is.  Should I give him more than the obligatory month?  2 months, 3 months?  Do I say "GTFO!" or do I word it in a friendly way?  "Hey man, how was your day?  Oh yeah?  That's coolGet the **** out of my house I haven't been doing much, just hangin' around."

Anywhoo I was originally going to post this in the "I Hate My Housemate" thread but then I remembered that they're called Roommates god damn it!
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline NinGurl69 *huggles

  • HI I'M CRAZY
  • Score: 28
    • View Profile
    • Six Sided Video
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2008, 07:07:25 PM »
@ >75%

Falcon Punch
:: Six Sided Video .com ~ Pietriots.com ::
PRO IS SERIOUS. GET SERIOUS.

Offline vudu

  • You'd probably all be better off if I really were dead.
  • NWR Junior Ranger
  • Score: -19
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2008, 07:44:00 PM »
Change the locks and put his stuff out on the curb.  Unplug and phone.  He'll slowly figure it out.

It really depends on what kind of guy he is.  Can you just say this isn't working out, can you find a new place to live and trust him to sort it out in a timely manner, or do you need to give him a deadline?
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

Offline animecyberrat

  • Official NWR Lindsay Lohan Fan
  • Score: 0
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2008, 07:46:09 PM »
It also depends on the laws of the city you live in. You might not be able to just kick him out. I had that problem once before.
"You can call me THE RAT, thank you very much"

Offline EasyCure

  • wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah!
  • Score: 75
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2008, 07:54:39 PM »
It also depends on the laws of the city you live in. You might not be able to just kick him out. I had that problem once before.

Don't bring that thing in here man, you already have a thread for that ;)
February 07, 2003, 02:35:52 PM
EASYCURE: I remember thinking(don't ask me why) this was a blond haired, blue eyed, chiseled athlete. Like he looked like Seigfried before he became Nightmare.

Offline animecyberrat

  • Official NWR Lindsay Lohan Fan
  • Score: 0
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2008, 08:03:02 PM »
what if *I* was the roommate that didn't have to leave?
"You can call me THE RAT, thank you very much"

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2008, 08:13:33 PM »
Well, he's a pretty good guy like I said.  He's had his fair share of problems, though.  He's a "recovering" drug addict who has dropped the hard stuff and only smokes weed (still too much I think, but he respects my rule of "no illegal things in the house".)  He also drinks too much, but I've never had an altercation from it, the only problem is he leaves beer bottles laying around.  But like I said no actual problems other than him being annoying.  I don't think he'd be a jerk if I told him to leave.

He's also not a legal resident of the building.  So I don't think I have to worry about laws.
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline that Baby guy

  • He's a real Ei-Ei-Poo!
  • Score: 379
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2008, 11:29:06 PM »
Is he the only person living with you?

Anyways, I'd just tell him that you need to talk when it looks like he isn't busy.  When you do talk, tell him that the two of you just aren't working out, and while you think he's a good friend, living together just isn't working like you hoped.  Ask him to start looking for another place to live, and hope he doesn't get angry.

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2008, 03:44:05 PM »
Nah I have another roommate who I've been living with for the better part of two years now.  He's laid back like me and just hangs out in his room all day so he allows me the whole house to myself pretty much.

Yeah I'll probably just try to tactfully inform him of his doom.  That or make up a bogus excuse of some sorts.  I don't think he'd get angry, more of just depressed over it or something and mope around afterwards.
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline vudu

  • You'd probably all be better off if I really were dead.
  • NWR Junior Ranger
  • Score: -19
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2008, 04:21:30 PM »
If you want I'll call him and tell him.  Give me his phone number.
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2008, 05:00:04 PM »
I was thinking I should just let RABicle stop by and do the kicking out for me since he needs places to stay.   :P
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline ShyGuy

  • Fight Me!
  • *
  • Score: -9660
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2008, 06:06:41 PM »
You seem awfully non-confrontational for someone called MAVERICK.

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2008, 06:57:50 PM »
Sorry, I shall commence my fly-by of my roommate's Air Traffic Control Tower immediately.

Who wants to be my RIO?
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline Crimm

  • Get your unfiltered Bowsette here!
  • NWR Staff Pro
  • Score: 1147
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2008, 07:31:00 PM »
Sorry, I shall commence my fly-by of my roommate's Air Traffic Control Tower immediately.

Who wants to be my RIO?

Is that a come-on?
James Jones
Mondo Editor
Nintendo World Report

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2008, 07:32:33 PM »
Depends... is it working?
« Last Edit: April 09, 2008, 07:35:52 PM by Maverick »
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline Dasmos

  • Needs Him Some Tang in His Lollies
  • Score: 52
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2008, 10:48:31 PM »
I was thinking I should just let RABicle stop by and do the kicking out for me since he needs places to stay.   :P
I'd pay to see this.
Images are not allowed in signatures. That includes moving images (video).

Offline that Baby guy

  • He's a real Ei-Ei-Poo!
  • Score: 379
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #16 on: April 10, 2008, 06:55:01 PM »
Does the other roommate feel the same way you do?

If so, the two of you should sit down with the odd man and tell him together.  It'll be a little easier.

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #17 on: April 10, 2008, 07:03:25 PM »
My other roommate flatout hates him.  But I'm the one who brought him into the fold so I kind of feel responsible for it.

I might be getting a new job soon, so if I do I'm just gonna tell him I'm making more money now so I don't need him to make the payments.
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2008, 09:21:00 AM »
MEGA UPDATE:

(I usually don't double post but it's been a caraaaazy night.)

So me and my other roommate are helping out my dad with moving some furniture last (this?) night.  We end up being there until after 1:00 in the morning 'cause he had us starting so late.  I get frustrated since after we finish moving the furniture pieces into his room my dad demands that we start putting it all together (nuts and bolts and what not).  It's 1 in the fucking morning, and he damn well doesn't need us to do that, I signed on for the heavy lifting 'cause he legitimately needed the help.  We end up getting in a fight about it (a physical fight).  I am distraught as my father has never laid a hand on me in all of my 20 years on the planet.  Me and my roommate flee from the scene to return home.

When we arrive, the roommate I so wished to remove from my house is laying on the couch in no shirt and his pajamas eating beans out of a bowl on the couch.  My other roommate which was with me at my dad's sees this gruesome scene and flips out.  As he is already riled up from the events prior, his adrenaline was off the charts and he just snapped on him.  They get into a shouting match at the top of their lungs, and the roommate I intended to let go decides it's a good idea to show my other roommate just how crazy he is and why he shouldn't be fucked with.  It worked.  He acquires a giant serrated steak knife from the kitchen and begins to wave it around furiously as he shouts back at my other roommate.  At this point my other roommate backs down and begins to repeat "put the knife down".  The crazy mcfucknuts roommate then proves his crazy mcfuckness by approaching the other roommate with the knife and slitting his own wrist with it to prove a point about how crazy mcfucknuts he is.  He thens swings the blade cutting through my living room wall.  My roommate runs outside and Crazy McFuckNuts follows him.  There he continues to scream and shout about how he shouldn't be fucked with while furiously attacking my outside light with the knife, blood spewing from his forearm.  He swings the knife furiously once more, this time breaking the blade out of the hilt.

With him now disarmed, I try my best to settle them both down and get them to shut the **** up.  I just had a traumatic experience with my father and this guy is stealing all my thunder by being a crazy mcfucknut.  I can't allow that to happen.  Once McFuckNut is calm, my other roommate takes off.  Freaked out of his mind.  My patio is covered in blood.  I get a couple towels for McFuckNut so he can put some pressure on his self-inflicted wound.  It's a really deep cut, definitely requires stitches.  I saw little tubes poking out of the gash, it was rather gross.

I take this time to inform him that even though my other roommate was wrong for snapping on him and starting the fight, that he crossed way over the line into crazytown and that he is no longer welcome in my house.  He must leave for tonight, and come for his things sometime this week.  Since he has no insurance and cannot afford to get stitches, I take him to the nearest gas station where he procures some bandages and ghetto-rigs his wound.  We return home, and he collects a few things to last him for a couple days, and departs.

I have now spent the last several hours cleaning blood stains out of my carpet and off my patio, calling a locksmith to come change the locks immediately, and staring at the huge cut in my wall with utter rage.  It is now 6:20 in the morning, and I cannot sleep.  I have been so hyped on adrenaline that I find it impossible.

So in the end, MISSION ACCOMPLISHEDIn the craziest and scariest way possible.
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline Dasmos

  • Needs Him Some Tang in His Lollies
  • Score: 52
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #19 on: April 13, 2008, 09:31:40 AM »
okay, what the ****.
Images are not allowed in signatures. That includes moving images (video).

Offline Maverick

  • Internet newbie :-)
  • Score: 3
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2008, 09:32:41 AM »
Yeah, this has pretty much been my largest "WTF Day" of my entire life.
Come play with my Twitter.

Offline JoeTrumpet

  • Score: 0
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2008, 10:22:56 AM »
That's unbelievable...

I really hope everything works out for you.

On the bright side, at least now you got him out?
Any color you like.

Offline ShyGuy

  • Fight Me!
  • *
  • Score: -9660
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2008, 10:25:42 AM »
Whoa. I think you need to move.

Offline vudu

  • You'd probably all be better off if I really were dead.
  • NWR Junior Ranger
  • Score: -19
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2008, 10:36:13 AM »
You should have had him committed.  He's a danger to himself and to others.

Hope you have a chain to keep the door locked or a chair to prop up against it until the locksmith gets there.  Just in case, you should post in this thread at least every two hours.  That way if you miss a check-in we know to contact the local authorities.
Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! The next generation! I will never accept a world with such bright colors! It is far too childish! I will rage against your cheery palette with my last breath!

Offline that Baby guy

  • He's a real Ei-Ei-Poo!
  • Score: 379
    • View Profile
Re: Kicking Out A Roommate
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2008, 12:00:57 PM »
You may want to call the authorities yourself.  Tell them what happened, let them know you don't wish to press charges, but that the guy may need some help.  It might be too late for that, but they're the ones that would judge that, not you, me, or anyone here.

Anyways, the good news is that he's out of your house, but it's too bad there's bad news to go along with it.  Sounds like you handled the issue pretty well yourself, though, I've got to commend you on it.