I live in my aunt’s house but I basically rent a room in her house. I couldn’t find any other place since I can’t afford to get an apartment yet. My aunt is nice and all but I cannot stand how she lets the room next to mine rent it to someone with zero sense of hygiene. This person’s room is a whole garbage. Inside his room there’s pile of trashes, empty cans, and empty chips. His room has carpet and he doesn’t have a bed but only sleeps on the carpet with a few pillows, but he has a freaking whole PC gaming set up. His walls are actually decorated with vinyl planks and some led but oh lord the trash, the smell, i even saw roaches crawling out of his room. Everytime he goes out and uses the bathroom, he leaves his door a little open and the stank coming out of his room is unimaginable. I can’t breathe walking past his door, and i cant even breathe at times when the smell travels to my room, travels to the living room, and basically everywhere that he goes to he leave his awful scent.
I brought this up to my aunt which is the landlord and she only said she’ll talk to him. So many time has it been that the other room mate, which is one of my family and hers too has complained about the smell but she hasn’t done anything at all. The only thing she said is he probably doesn’t smell himself at this point now or he could have some medical issues.
I have tried everything just to deal with it. I spent my money on odor blockers, sprays, plug in scents, diffusers but it’s really not doing anything. I wake up at time because I smell the other room and it’s not a nice way to wake up specially if you got woken up by the scent of garbage. At some days it’s not bad when he keeps his door shut but the moment he opens it walks to bathroom, I can smell it immediately and it ruins everything I’m doing.
There were a couple incidents that he used the bathroom and didn’t flush the toilet, the seat had traces of his pubic hair and dirt, and there was few times where he showered and the floor had so much dirt if i could call it. The other roommates have to deal with that and I have to deal with cleaning, spraying, making sure things are clean.
By the way, this person has been renting her place for almost 10 years I think and I just moved in like 2 years ago. I don’t really care about longevity but I honestly think that this person needs to go or at least something. I have concerns regarding this house specially that it has roach infestation now.
I probably complain too much acting like this is my house but the truth is I’m trying to move out as soon as I can. It’s just currently it’s so hard to deal with this specially when the landlord isn’t doing anything about it.
I know you said yo her about smell, did you mention the roaches to her? Most landlords i had don’t care about smell but mention roaches and its a whole thing
I mentioned it to her and she’d say, I’ll get the infestation team when I get extra money, or she’d buy sprays to spray everywhere 🙂
Mention the roaches so that your aunt will actually do something.
Did that and she only bought those walmart products for roaches…
the fact youre buying sprays outta your own pocket is wild. thats like trying to febreze chernobyl. this isnt just he messy, its health code territory. roaches dont care who moved in first
She should care. Roaches and other critters are hard to get rid of. Save every dime and move away.
Yes, for now I really don’t know how to deal with this
Seems like you tried everything but actually talking to the roommate . If you just come at him like you know with the least amount of you know animosity that you can you know I understand it is something that you know upsetting to you I would be to but just try to approach it with sensitivity and you know it you never know it’s worth a try
Your aunt has not fixed the issue in 10 years so she isn’t going to. She does not care.
You only have 2 choices. Stay there and accept the situation or look for another place. ACTIVELY look for another room to rent. Surely there have to be other rooms for rent in your area. Maybe people are looking for roommates. Keep looking every week until one comes up you can afford.
After reading your comments, it looks like the only course of action is to continue to save up and move out.
I would get out and get a small room somewhere just for your sanity.
Leave before you pick up a disease or an infestation.
NTA for complaining, it’s absolutely normal with what you’re describing.
But, unfortunately, it’s your aunt’s place, and if she doesn’t care that someone is not respecting (and kinda ruining) her own property… There’s not much you can do, except for keep trying to convince her.