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So, just the quick background: my boyfriend and I wanted to move, and could afford to live on our own (and at the time were). But my boyfriends best friend and his girlfriend (who I will refer to as Fred and Jane) couldn't afford to live alone, and weren't getting along with their current roommates, so my boyfriend and I agreed to help them by looking to rent with them instead of alone cause it's his best friend since childhood. I agreed to it just to be supportive of what my boyfriend felt was right. So we found a bigger apartment, which we cannot afford alone however can afford with roommates....

Anyways, so since moving in, we have realized they are really effing lazy. They won't take the trash out, do dishes, clean up after themselves, offer to help with anything.... they don't even clean up after their caged pet.

I am a clean freak so for the last several months it has been up to me and my boyfriend to clean up after ourselves AND our roommates... when we ask them to contribute they often refuse or act as if it is rude to ask them to do simple chores like empty the dishwasher or take the trash out. Jane pretty much acts like I'm the devil cause I dislike messes or stinky smells. She's made comments in front of my boyfriend about me. She has opened our mail, too, and knows no boundries. She comes in and out of my room as she pleases, same with our bathroom, and constantly ease-drops....

Fred has made comments basically that they shouldn't have to help with chores cause they supposedly don't do much.

Mind you they both only work part time and are home four days a week.... all they do is play computer games and eat. All. Day. Long. While my boyfriend and I work over full time often and buy and Lloyd things for the apartment cause we actually value soap (which they don't have in their bathroom, disgusting!!) And laundry detergent (they will wash laundry with none if we are out or hide it, also disgusting)....

I honestly just don't know how I will survive the next 8 months. So I was wondering if anyone has any roommate stories or advice, good or bad to share and discuss. (:

TLDR

Do you have roommates or have you had them?
Was it or is it a good experience or bad?
Have any advice or things that work well with roommates?
Do you have roommate horror stories?
Anything else roommate related?

kick them out?

So in order to attempt to remedy the situation I have done things like make chore charts in the hope that they would start helping (which they do the bare minimum now to try to avoid me asking why they didn't do their chores when they were home all day long)...

My boyfriend is getting discouraged cause he only wanted to help and we feel we are being taken advantage of now.

Well I had three roommates: one of them had a boyfriend who was actually a ******** crackhead who stole a bunch of my s**t and sold it for drugs, another one constantly had strange men she met on dating sites coming in and out of our house at all hours of the night, the other one was my best friend (big mistake) with whom I did not had a problem. Our house was in constant disarray and the police were there at least once a month. They could not afford the house w/o my share but since I was not on the lease and nobody seemed to care about mine or anyone else's safety or wellbeing, I decided to be a d**k and just left.

So if you're like me and you can handle the drama that may ensue from doing something like that, I advise you and your boyfriend to pick up your s**t and find somewhere else to go.

We can't cause we moved into a more expensive apt than we can afford cause they refused to do a 2 bedroom, since they wanted more space. We went with it cause we trusted them since my boyfriend and Fred have been best friends since childhood.... so now we are stuck with them.

All talking to them does is being excuse after excuse. It's super annoying and frustrating. They act like I am evil for asking for them to contribute to the chores.