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I recently moved out and I'd like to know of the consequences.
I lived with some so called friends for a couple of months until recently. A friend said they’d let me pay the utilities as part of the living arrangement because beforehand, I didn’t have money and had a low paying job that have me no hours. At the time, it wasn’t too bad until recently, where I was in charge of paying electricity, water, propane, and half of internet. Unfortunately and fortunately, I didn’t have my name on any of the bills.
Well here’s part of the problem: one of the roommates. She had myself and another roommate throw money in a jar, PLAIN SIGHT might I add. Well, that money would be in there for weeks until she felt like getting up and paying them. I thought, well it’s her credit so not my problem. Eventually, there was an outrages water bill, she blamed it on me letting a faucet drip, which I doubt I did and even so, shouldn’t have added up to it. At first I was unsure why it was so high and didn’t trust her, so I called the company and they confirmed the price (the roommate throws away bills and receipts immediately). In the end, I thought long and hard how to pay that bill and decided to pay it in full and get over it once and for all. Well, my money sat in a jar a whole week and the roommate tells me I was short on money. Another roommate and I had our money combined for her to pay, she paid their bills first then mine last, so I was the one who was ‘short,’ so I had to pay the remaining that I know were stolen. I didn’t think she would be capable but I confronted her and told her someone stole money and she said who could have stolen when we had nobody around. At the time, I assumed her mother stole the money since she has the reputation. That woman stayed a few days then got up and left without telling anybody goodbye. Either way, I confronted her and demanded I wanted my name on the bills because she’s irresponsible for paying them on time and I’m the one who is paying her to pay them. She gave me stupid excuses then eventually walked away. I immediately decided that it didn’t matter anymore because I was unhappy there. The bills were stupid, and I was the only one who really cleaned, they left me in charge of washing dishes, which most of them, weren’t even mine. Two sinks filled with dishes and only two or three were mine. Aside from that, my other roommate never cleaned the bathroom we shared, I was the one who did. One just threw out trash, the other one cleaned the living room every other month. She did nothing else because she doesn’t do cleaning. One time I asked her about helping clean the yard filled with trash her mother left and that’s the response I got.
Months went by and I recently made some new friends, they helped me out a lot and often let me hang out with them. Eventually, they offered to let me live with them and I told them I wouldn’t mind if they didn’t mind waiting a bit. I didn’t want to be a horrid person and just leave them with a bunch of bills they couldn’t pay. Eventually, I told another friend (who also knows my hirrid roommates) about the new place I was offered. The next day, she told me she convinced my friends to let me move in that weekend, which the girls themselves told me as well. At first, I didn’t want to yet, especially because I wanted to go see my grandmother that weekend. But my friend told me I have to do it now to avoid the next coming bills, and that my roommates were stealing from me and were planning to charge me up the—- with bills (they were going to say it was higher than it really was), and try to move out while I was at work and they were going to throw out my things on the side of a street and change the locks to the house. That changed everything and I felt I should move that very weekend. It took us four hours to move everything. Maybe it wouldn’t have taken so long for them to dump my things out but I doubt they could have easily moved things out without me noticing throughout that whole night especially when I walked home for lunch most days. My friend said they only wanted me there because they wanted me to buy them a PS4 I promised one friend for being a chill friend. I have a generous heart. Anyways that, and they said they didn’t want me living with them because I usually stayed in my room and I didn’t wash the dishes, which, they didn’t do anything themselves.
Anyways, I moved out. Now, I don’t feel morally nor legally obligated to pay for anything. Yet I wanted to take care of bills. My new roommates said I could pay at the end of the month, which is a nice financial help. I decided, to avoid problems with my other roommates and pay the electric and water myself (my ex roommate told me they were really picky and didn’t let you pay if you weren’t the person on the title). I recently got told by one of the roommates that I should at least pay half the internet, which is another fun bill.
The other roommate borrowed money from me from the jar and didn’t tell me till afterwards. Well, the internet bill wasn’t paid for two weeks. After the stolen money fiasco, I told my roommate to show me the bills and tell me when she decides to pay for them because I didn’t want to leave my money out in the open. She failed to do this and decides to talk to someone about it in the living room which I could hear from my room. I gave her the money, and because we were three days late, our bill went from 64 to 100 dollars. So I had to pay fifty afterwards. And the next month was supposedly higher and my roommate didn’t tell me, so she made me pay a hundred (because that’s what she paid supposedly for the last bill). Then came the two week thing, and two weeks after we got internet, she said we had the new bill, and I don’t understand but I was too tired to question it. Apparently, the internet bill is at 150, and slowly it’s supposed to drop down. I want to ask, is that possible for companies to do that? Aside from that, that ex roommate started demanding I at least pay the internet. I recently paid the water and electric and now I barely have any money to my name. The other roommate, I don’t know if she is acting stupid or something but she said she hopes I paid to the right address, which I have both receipts to the bills under the names of the people I know they are under. But she said they weren’t due till next pay check, which made me believe they were going to charge me then pretending I didn’t pay anything.
That’s why I don’t feel morally nor legally obligated to pay for the internet bill which is under her name. I actually wonder if I’d gotten away without legal problems if I didn’t pay the last utilities. I think it’s stupid that I’m even paying the internet, but I forgot some clothes at their house and they are accusing me of taking their Tupperware, which is a lie because I even forgot Tupperware my grandma gave me, but now I want to take it back. I don’t want her to throw my clothes and Tupperware to the trash. Aside from that, I want to know if it’s possible to take my things back, and ask her to hand me a history payment on the internet in return for the money she’s wanting. I intended to pay her even if she was lying, I just want to know.
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