i moved out when i was 18, got an apartment with three other people. it was awful. they were smelly and gross and left food out all the time.

but now it's two years later and i have my own lil house and no roommates! it's so wonderful and quiet and cLEAN.

do you live on your own? do you have any scary roommate stories?

Ugh room mates are bad when you're single, worse when in a relationship. My husband and I had a younger couple live with us that we ended up kicking out. Wish we'd done it sooner. They literally always had screaming matches, didn't contribute money at the end, and were just shitty people.

Ugh I wish I had my own place but I can't afford it. Once I finish my masters and get a good paying job, I hope I can move and get my own apartment. Actually, having one roommate that I knew I could live with would be nice so I wouldn't feel lonely.

UGH I'm so jealous! I lived with some of my close friends two years ago, and it was great cause they're my buddies but they were just kind of messy and gross. Now my roommates are just my parents, who are great (and clean), but the tv is just on all the time and sometimes it drives me nuts. Quiet and clean are pretty much the exact words I would use to describe my dream living situation at this point. God I can't wait to live by myself. Soon I hope!

I had roommates all through college( lived in the school dorms up until my second to last year) and didn't usually have any problems with roommates. Well, ok, my first year in the dorms, I had a crazy druggie roommate that was eventually found out by her parents and shipped off to Arizona.

I also had really religious bible thumperish roommates my second to last year in the dorms as well that was just downright uncomfortable. Fortunately, by that time i was living in the singles and a lot of the time just spent the entire time with them closeted in my room.

Congratulations on your freedom! I can honestly say I know exactly how you feel I just went through a terrible experience myself.

I moved in with my boyfriend who had roommates, he had by then began to realize how much of a mistake it was. He had roomed up with his best friend's parents who were out of luck and homeless at the time living out of their truck. He thought hey it's his parents what could go wrong, well the husband didn't work the whole winter and David was supporting the entire house with no one else contributing, rent, food bills. Then a jail friend of his friend moved in as well and wasn't getting a job either. I arrived in like March and finally the husband had begun getting a job. So the husband was making more in 2 days then David made in a month yet David was still supporting the entire house because the husband spent all of his money on drugs and ice cream, not food for the fridge. They only boguht ice cream and soda for themselves... and drugs.. yup.

The other roommate was growing weed which was supposed to be for profit to help with our bills but nope him and the husband ended up smoking it all IN THE HOUSE. The wife, my fiance's best friend's mom turned out to be a nutcase who when not on her drugs would run around the house screaming and threatening everyone. She would even complain when we bought food for ourselves because she didn't eat the same stuff as us (mind you when they had money they NEVER bought us anything) They owe David over $2000.

She was treating me awfully, her husband had threatened me a few times. They even threatened to kill my dog because they hate dogs.

The other roommate betrayed us and sided with his fellow druggies and screwed us in the end. So little by little we stopped buying food for everyone, we were eating ramen and nothing else just not healthyf ood at all to save every penny we could and then we moved out at the end of October and it has been so wonderful being in a hosue without screaming and negativity and the awful stench of weed.

I mean we used to have to hide our toilet paper in our room because the others wouldn't buy it so they'd come to our bathroom and steal it. I remember a few weeks into living here David asked me where the toilet paper was, I said "It's in the cabinet above the toilet hon" ... he began freaking out lol... WHAT?! toilet paper in the bathrooM!?!?!!?! ?

We bought ice cream and food to enjoy in advanced it has been so wonderful.

Right as we were moving out the daughter of that couple was moving in to get away from her drug abusive husband, she seemed nice but the b est friend just contacted us to tell me that they are being evicted.

His mom of course isn't working, neither is the sister. The husband isn't working now and the abusive drug husband she came to Colorado to get away from? Yup he's living there now too and refuses to work lol.

I honestly can't say that I feel bad for them even though they are going to become homeless in the winter, during christmas. At their age they should be responsible enough to work and prioritize things properly. It is sad though but they sure as hell aren't coming here lol

I moved out when I was 18 and lived alone for a year. I knew it had its perks, but I really just felt an overpowering loneliness, and it kind of broke me psychologically. So I decided I never wanted to live alone ever again, and signed on a five bedroom house instead (four bedroom + a room in the basement), choosing to rent out the rooms to friends/people I trusted. I held onto that house for six years before I finally threw in the towel. I had... I think my last count was 12 people move in and out over the years, and it was basically a nightmare from start to finish. I hated living on my own, but living with roommates was borderline torture. Sure, a small handful of them were alright, even enjoyable to live with - but the vast majority made it utterly unbearable.

To this day, I'd say I'm owed no less than $7000 total from all the people who stiffed me on rent/bills/etc. I had to kick out, I think, five roommates for various reasons in that time. Most of which WERE close friends of mine that figured that, since we were so close, they could take advantage of me. I've lost too many people I had once considered to be my "best friend", just from renting out a room to them. I slowly learned that if people figure they can get away with fucking someone over with virtually no repercussions to themselves, they will. These are the joys of being the sole leaseholder, it would seem. eyeroll

So, last year after my last four tenants/"best friends" all individually fucked me over HARD within just a few months of each other, I decided enough was enough and closed the doors on that house for good. It was really hard, since over the years it had become my home - but holding onto it was killing me financially, and I simply didn't want to live with any more roommates that I felt I couldn't trust.

So, my (then) boyfriend (now fiance =P) signed on a one bedroom apartment, and it's been absolutely amazing. I don't have to live with roommates, but I also don't have to live alone - it really is the best of both worlds. =)

;; i envy you so much. my first semester of college, and i am now on my second roommate. i get a different one next year.

my first one (let's call her C) was really sloppy, unfashionable, and just plain down weird. C would blame me for keeping her up at night when in reality she was barely there when i was in the room and when i did go in there it was just to sleep. if she was getting on my nerves i would go in and out numerous times just to be obnoxious because she said i did that stuff anyway.

she ended up rooming with our next dorm neighbor's ex-roommate (they can be S and B). B was a slob, left food and empty food containers out all the time and then kept her boyfriend in our all girl dorms every freaking night i swear to god. it got so bad she started to fail her classes because she would spend all her time with him and they were just down right annoying not to mention how disrespectful they were to others around them.

i ended up getting B's roommate S and she's high maintenance as fuck. she's up at 6 am every day just to get her make-up done and she wakes me up with her hair dryer on days i have classes at 1 in the afternoon. the only good part about her is she's clean, and spends most of nights and weekends at her boyfriend's apartment because she "can't sleep in the dorms well."

and now next year i'm hopefully staying with my other friend. she can be J. J and i get along really well, she just has two friends that i'm personally not too fond of and i think they're going to constantly be in our room which will be a pain in my ass so i'll ask her to stay over at their dorm and not bring them in our room all the time. even though she wants me to live with her and them in a different building junior year and i really don't want to do that and i need to find a nice way to tell her.

but in the end i want to live alone, with a cat and a ferret. friends can visit but they aren't staying the night. ever. i can't cohabitate with people, it's too hard for me.

Roommates are terrible. I moved in with my boyfriend with our first roommate who ended up bailing on us because my boyfriend lost his job and had been having a hard time finding another one ( he has a new job now so yay c: ) And right before I was leaving the country for a month. (internship in switzerland) Then the second roommate we had was just terrible. He smoked, which was affecting my dogs health, he was just absolutely filthy - hardly ever bathed which was just beyond gross. And he killed our hamster. I8

Hahaha I'll never be able to afford to live completely alone here... it's basically my dream. You're lucky to get to live without housemates!

I live with a load of Czech blokes that don't really speak much English. They're not so bad.

I just hate living with people that act as though they're still living in their family home... like they're a bit TOO comfortable in the house, and don't even think that they should be considerate as they just see it as 'their house'. It was mostly students I was living with that were like that, luckily no more student living for me.

Omg the couple we lived with she used to sometimes come in the kitchen in a tight tank top with lingerie panties on and her husband used to come out in nothing but his undies too. I've had the unfortunateness however you spell that of also seeing the other roommate walking around in just his boxers. I think it's disrespectful when t's not your home and it's a shared home. Just as I find smoking in a house where not everyone is a smoker is beyond rude. God that house stunk soooo bad.

I had roommates all through college - never again. At least, not until my boyfriend moves in. I'm very sensitive to noises, and am a light sleeper. None of my roommates in college were able to respect that, and towards the end of my senior year, my roommates were outright spiteful about it. I tried to compromise with them as much as possible, but in the end, they were total bitches about it. After college, I lived with my family again for a couple years while looking for a job that could pay rent. My family respects that I need quiet, and I was in a room at the far end of the house. I like my privacy though, and as much as I love my family, they drive me nuts sometimes. So, I'm now living in a tiny one bedroom apartment, and it's great. My only issue is the guys who like to smoke outside by the stairs (I don't think they realize that smells from outside on the walkway get into other peoples' apartments).

I'm so envious. I lived in this house with four great people last year, but at the end of April they all moved out. I stupidly made the decision to stay and find new tenants, so now I'm living in a house with one person from the old group and three sophomores, and they're just generally annoying people and have barely figured out how to clean up after themselves. What makes it worse is it's a whole lot easier to just roll your eyes and let it go when you're actually friends with your flatmates, but I don't really like being around them and we have absolutely nothing in common.

not to mention I actually started going out with one of the guys from the old group, and I'd probably feel a lot better about that ended relationship if I didn't have to say hello to his replacement every morning :( So I just can't shake my disappointment with this new situation, what a dumb idea that was. I'm planning on finding a new place when I go back for the second term ;;

I'm renting a room from a lady my mom works with and I love it. We get along great since we're both clean freaks and we have a lot in common. Her daughter is 14 and I have to remind myself that a lot because she is forgetful and sometimes leaves dirty dishes behind and lights on. But it's all good because she is really cool too.

Just started a semester at College for Creative Studies and man oh man, I don't really like my roommates. (We have a corner room overlooking Detroit and most of the dorms are like mini apartments) One of them leaves food out and forgets to clean out dairy products when its been over a week. Not to mention she isn't exactly friendly either. I've waved and said hello when I see her on campus but she completely ignores me.

The other gets sick constantly and is always bringing really rude and obnoxious people into the room. I don't mind peppy/preppy people but she also downplays other women and thought it was odd that I enjoyed playing video games in the lounge with my friends. Also, despite going to an art school she does not seem to have much interest in art. Her major is in advertising (which is fine, I have a couple friends that are in it also) and she literally told me at the start of the year I should do her foundations (basic drawing) work because she sucks at drawing. Why would you go to an art school is you can't draw for shit and don't have anything creative to bring to the table, not to mention you're not willing to think more outside the box. >:I

Overall, they also never seem to clean until the day before room inspections so our room is a complete hellhole.

Thankfully, at-least one of my roommates is clean and polite but sadly I don't talk to her much since we have a bit of language barrier.

Oh, I also have to sleep right next to the doorway and they always leave the lights on even when they leave/shower/or go back to bed. The one morning I woke up to my roommate turning on the doorway light as well as the sink lights and was chatting rather loudly with her friend while they were putting on makeup. This went on for at-least a half an hour.

To all of those that are planning to dorm or get roommates, make sure to get good ones that are clean and considerate. Also, sometimes rooming with your friends is not the best idea.

I've been living in the same room for 4.5 years now. I have had 3 different "roommates" which is more like the girl that lives next door and with which I share fridge, microwave and bathroom. First one was awfully dirty at times, other times clean but a nice girl... Second one was never home and a very clean person most of the times so no complains. Except that she was crazy and they had to take her away to the psychiatrist because of her problems... So she was hospitalized for a while. This year I got a girl that leaves all of the dishes dirty and the shower full of hair that she doesn't pick and take to the garbage... Awful! But now she's leaving to the floor downstairs... I hope to have a normal roommate such as the first one someday...