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My future roommates (set to move in June 3) and I are suddenly having e-mail arguements over rooms.
They are all different sizes, and we all have a lot of stuff.
I bought a queen-sized bed specifically because I was lead to believe that everyone was okay with me having the upstairs back bedroom. (Not the largest room, just the right size for me.)
And roommate #4, who just recently viewed the house, covets this room which I've had my eye on since...January.
Roommate #1, who thinks she is going to be stuck with the smallest room, wants to pay less rent because the room is smaller and because she is worked soooo hard in sending our security deposit checks to the landlord. (??)
Roommate #3, and roommate #2 (me), don't really care what rooms we get as long as all our stuff fits, and all of our stuff won't fit unless we get one of the rooms upstairs, the rooms we've said we wanted (and no one objected until now!) since we signed the lease. We also believe everyone should pay the same rent because it IS what we agreed on months ago.
I hate argueing with people, especially before we've even moved in. And if we don't resolve this nicely we are going to hate each other the entire year.
Please help me think of rational and logical ways to resolve this issue.
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Mrs. Cakes said, (238 days ago)
If the room is waaay smaller, the girl stuck with it should like, be exempt from a utility or something.
Sharon said, (238 days ago)
The only time we had a roommate pay more or less - was because they got their own private bathroom and the patio. But other than that the size of the room shouldn't matter when it comes to rent. And tell roommate four that - that room isn't available and it's not up for negotiation. Early bird gets the worm. If all else fails [and I know this option sucks - rock paper scissors or something equally as ridiculous to decide over the room if she's not budging.]
Merry JasAsian v2.0 said, (238 days ago)
Your big mistake was signing the lease before you hashed this out. I have walked out on roomie deals because one guy wanted a room to himself and to be paying the same as the two other guys sharing one room.
Ms. Satanic has a good point in that no one objected to you having the big room at the time of the signing. Learning to speak-up about the place you're going to live in is a life-skill your friends needs to learn.
However, if this is going to turn into a huge hissy-fit your friends will hold a grudge over, you might consider appeasing them. Perhaps if those two with the larger upstairs rooms share the cost of the house's landline or highspeed internet or something.
Finally, since it looks like your roomies have the propensity for after-the-fact bitching, you'd better sit everyone down and lay down the ground rules for utilities. Figure out the details on stuff like cable TV, pet deposits, yard costs and other upkeep.
Also, its a good idea to make sure that everyone tries to at least be on the same page about boyfriends/girlfriends staying over. Is everyone going to try and keep it down during sex, or is loud sex just going to be par for the course? I've found that figuring all this out in the beginning is the key to good roomie relations, which you'll have to try extra hard four since you've got four people living under the same roof.
Roommate #4 is just plain fucked. He can take the room that was open.
Roommate #1 needs to suck it up. She didn't call one of the other rooms, the lease is signed and she should have thought about her butthurtedness before now.
If all of this was worked out before now, that's the deal that was made and everyone else can shut the fuck up. End of story.
Stand firm.