Keeping it very simple, there are 4 of us (all early 20s) on the lease for a split house, we’ve known eachother since way before moving in together, we have the downstairs (1 bedroom 1 living room) area minus the dining room and kitchen, housemates have the upstairs (3 bedrooms 1 living room) and the washer and dryer are upstairs. There has been a big pile of my housemates random personal stuff downstairs since before i moved in and i have been asking them to take care of it for 9 months now. While they were at work, i took it upon myself to finally move their stuff that’s sat in front of my bedroom door and also the stairs going upstairs up to their hallway in between doing loads of laundry. When they got home they immediately moved everything back downstairs telling me to not touch it again and saying they don’t have room for it up there and that i shouldn’t have touched it without asking and if it was that big of an issue to me i should have said something (i have been, for 9 months). I expressed to them that i have been asking and telling them to take care of their stuff for months and that i feel like i cannot enjoy my living room with their clutter in it and that waiting as long as i did was more than enough time to get it done themselves
Nta they have plenty of space up there. If they can’t fit all of their stuff into their portion of the house, they either need to go donate some things or start paying a higher percentage of the rent and let you pay a bit less.
Time for a house meeting. NTA
NTA I agree they had plenty of time
NTA. You were living with clutter that was affecting your space. Sometimes you have to take action when people don’t listen. They can’t just leave their stuff lying around forever.
Just because you have known them for a long time does not mean you know them good enough to determine whether they’d be a good roommate. You should always think about the factors other than the money when getting a roomate
NTA, but with caveat of it depends on what the ‘personal stuff’ is. That term is so subjective. If it’s like random shoes, clothes, bags etc. Yeah not the asshole. If it was random ‘decorative, furniture, etc.’ Random stuff, then maybe? The only reason I’m putting the caveat is it seems very strange that if the random stuff was clothing, shoes, bags etc. Was brought up to where their rooms are, it seems strange it was brought back down. Regardless time for a formal house meeting.
Yes, the random stuff consisted mostly, like 80%, of their clothes and blankets
Yeah that’s strange. NTA. House meeting time.
NTA- But welcome to the joys of living with roommates. Find a big ole refrigerator box and fill it with random crap and set it in their living space in an inconvenient spot and when they try to move it, yell at them for touching your stuff and that you don’t have room for it in your space so it needs to stay there.
NTA. You only have three more months until your lease ends and you can get your own place. I would not resign with these entitled people.
Nta, the audacity to put it back as well after you were kind enough to sort out the problem their lazy ass couldn’t do. I would just keep picking it up and leaving it outside their door and let them experience clutter thats directly in their way
NTA
Tell them to take it upstairs or it’ll go outside. Then do it.
Sure would be a shame if someone peed all over their stuff.
NTA.
NTA.
And try to live alone, it is addicting.