It's important to set boundaries with your roommates from the get-go. Normally, you would think this is something most folks learn in college, but you'd be surprised how many fully grown adults have yet to learn these important lessons. For instance, when you first move in with someone, both parties need to establish which items (food, products, etc.) are communal and which ones should be privately used. This Redditor had the unfortunate experience of having to deal with a roommate who refused…

Ugh, landlords… They often uphold a maddening double standard with their tenants . If you, the tenant, have a leaking roof or a broken heater, the landlord will probably take their sweet time fixing it. It could take days, weeks, or even months in some cases, just to get your apartment up to it's usual standards. But if your landlord needs something from you, like your monthly rent payment, they'd better have it on time or they'll throw a fit! This person's landlady is not respecting their time…

There's a price to relying on the kindness of strangers, especially if you're the kind stranger. After all, what would you do if your 55-year-old neighbor, who was recently evicted from her apartment by your landlord, knocked on your door one night with no place to stay? Would you not succumb to your decent impulses and let her crash on your couch, even if it's just for one night? Unfortunately, in this instance, it was far from just one night. This lady hadn't had another place lined up despit…

Surely we've all had our fair share of terrible roommates. The kind of people who actually see themselves as the landlords and act like everything they say must be followed. When it comes to horrible roommate experiences, I think I won the gold medal. I once had to share a tiny 4-bedroom apartment with 7 roommates, meaning I had to share a room with two other people. The apartment was constantly messy, there were always dishes in the sink, and no one was willing to commit to any household task…

We all know that it's not easy to keep a home pristine, but these things are going to be quite difficult to keep clean at all! The thing about cleaning is that you're never really done with it for good. You could spend a whole weekend sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, and scrubbing your home from top to bottom. But still, within just a few hours, you'll find dishes piled up in the sink and dust bunnies on the floors. You just have to try your best with the little time you have. Some people bought t…

This snow shoveler knows they were being petty towards their neighbor , and they do not care one bit. In some parts of the world, snow days are still quite common. Some storms can dump buckets of the white stuff, leaving people to dig out their cars while their kids build snow forts. Shoveling a driveway or digging your car out can take ages. You have to scrape the snow from the windshield, dig out the tires, scrape the ice from the door handles, and after all that's done, you still need to dig…

Unless it's the John Waters movie starring the incomparable Divine, no one should come home to 50 pink flamingos in their parking space. That is, unless you're this dude's neighbor, who clearly got what he deserved. The two residents live in an apartment complex with a garage underneath that has designated parking spaces for those living in the building. Yet for whatever reason, this neighbor did not care about the clearly demarcated spaces and decided that he was going to use the Redditor's pa…

TAKE THAT

Pretty sure that's illegal...

It's one thing to have a messy house , but these people have taken their messiness to the next level. Sometimes, the best way to clean up your home is by inviting someone over. It immediately makes you consider your home from an outsider's perspective. You start to think about what your guests might notice, like crumbs on the table or a streaky mirror. They say you should clean surfaces first, then the bathroom, then the floors, and by that point, you have a pretty clean home to invite your gue…

If you've ever ended up with a nightmare roommate, you'll appreciate the prank this guy pulled on his entitled roommate. The Original Poster (OP) in this story had just graduated college, landed a job, and lucked into a seemingly perfect living arrangement...only to discover that his roommate, a former classmate no less, is just as he remembered her. Entitled.

We'll do anything for our pets . We buy them treats and toys, we kiss them and snuggle them, we drive them to the vet or to their favorite places to play. It's so great to have a fuzzy little dude running around your house who loves you like crazy, bites you sometimes, and always wants to cuddle up and hang out with you. However, a lot of landlords don't care how cute your cat, dog, bird, or rabbit is: they're simply not allowed in your apartment. So some people lie to their landlords, insistin…

This tenant and her husband had lived peacefully in their apartment for over two years, never causing trouble, paying rent on time, and dealing with their landlords' agonizingly slow repair schedule without complaint. But one early morning, the tenant was woken by a call from her 75-year-old "Mom-Landlord," screaming at her for parking on the grass. But just a few days earlier, the "Son-Landlord" had told them they could park on the grass while the parking lot was being repaved. But logic didn'…

It’s rare to see someone successfully get back at their HOA these days, but as it turns out, miracles can happen and this dude really worked wonders. After he was fined a nonsensical $1500 for taking a plank of wood down the communal elevator despite there being no other mode of transport, he decided that the best way to get even with these guys was to mess up their elevator without any trace of evidence that could get back to him. He did this by planting mini sound emitters that would erupt in…

Living in a co-op certainly has its advantages, but it also means that you may or may not be at the mercy of a building Karen. Here , we have a new tenant who just moved into her co-op in noisy midtown Manhattan two weeks prior. She threw a small housewarming get-together with ten people on a Friday night. These are all folks in their late twenties or early thirties who knew that this was a quiet, low-key event rather than some kind of rager. Unfortunately for the Redditor who hosted the event,…

"He's also a landlord for another property and knows that you need to keep heat on at least 60 to be legal and up to code."