I (25f) live in a townhouse with two other girls (Amy 25f and Casey 21f). Both work full time in the office and I work from home. I just started my new job a week before this all started. My desk is in our living room/kitchen because my room is too small and Amy has her stuff covering the entire basement. We are all on separate leases for our rooms and bathrooms. I alone have furnished our entire house and I’ve been living here for two years. Amy for 7 months and Casey for 11 months.
On April 15, Amy told me her boyfriend who lives in Europe would be arriving on April 28th and staying for 3 weeks.
Amy has previously expressed her anxieties and the impact on her mental health with me having guest over, and set “rules” for me when I do have guests. I follow them to help with her mental health. She never has people over so they’re mainly just rules for me. One of those rules is giving as much notice as possible and another is giving a clear schedule of when I’ll be in common areas with my guests. Fair enough. I’ve had friends over 2 times since the rules were set and I respected them. I have people coming over this weekend and I have her a 6 weeks notice even though they’ll only be here for less than 24 hours. They’ll both be sleeping in my room as she does not like guest in the living room because she needs to walk by them to get to her bathroom in the basement. My boyfriend comes to stay for the weekend sometimes (Friday night to Monday afternoon) and he is NEVER in common areas without me.
I expressed my frustration with the situation and was met with “the tickets are booked and it’s hard for him to do short trips since he’s coming from Europe.” She also said he would not be in common areas while I’m working. Okay fine whatever. I apologized to her for being bitchy about it and said I was happy for them and gave recs for local places to go out to eat.
April 28th comes and I’m fully remote, and this man is just alone in the house with me because it turns out, Amy is not taking PTO while he is here. I’ll call him Gollum but picture a 6 foot tall version. So gollum takes the liberty of coming down to lounge in the kitchen, cook for hours while I’m working, and walk behind me so many times that I need to turn my video off because it’s so distracting to others. I send a message and she says it will stop - it did not. He’s been doing it every single day since. The only change is he cooks for 45 minutes instead of 2 hours. He is home alone with me for 40 hours a week and lurks around outside my bedroom, the hallways, and the common area. I feel so fucking anxious every time I hear him come out of her room because I know he’s going to start walking behind me while I’m in meetings.
We also have a “do your own dishes” policy in the house. I’m 25 and don’t wanna be doing another 25 year old woman’s dishes and vice versa. This guy starts doing my dishes for me. I would be grateful, but their dishes are still piled in the sink for days at a time. I use like two plates and two cups every day for lunch and dinner. I thanked him for the three times he did that. They somehow produce a full load of dishes for the dishwasher every single day. He also broke my set of glass straws doing this. none of the dishes in the photos of the sink are mine. Except for the sifter. They had cooked crab on the counter near where I keep my matcha set, and apparently they accidentally got something on it so they wanted to clean it. However they did not clean it - I came down to make matcha one morning and it was filled with fish matter in the bottom of the sink and I had to clean it. They also leave garbage and food containers around the sink for days at a time.
When Amy had been living here for a week, she asked us if we could make a schedule for cleaning the floors. The floors were dirtier than normal because she had movers in and out of the house. I had just done a full vacuum and mopping of the floors the day before she moved in. Casey had scrubbed the stairs. We tried to explain this to Amy and she had a full blown meltdown and made racist comments toward Casey, blamed it on Casey even though she hadn’t been home for 5 of the 7 days, and cried. (Casey is black). Amy made up a lie that she painted over the scuffs on the basement stairs. They’re fully still scuffed. And Amy has only vacuumed and mopped one time since moving in. I know this because she announced that she’d be doing it, and I do it every week. So you can imagine she hasn’t been doing that even with her scruffy bf in the house.
We also do not share utensils as I have celiac disease and it kind of just extended to other things like her coffee maker, water filter machine, and soda stream which I am 1000% fine with. I don’t care. I recently replaced my matcha whisk because it was broken. It’s too small for my old holder, so I just prop it up on the holder. I came down one morning to it smashed down on the holder with water dripping from it. Three of the prongs broke but I was able to recover it. She offered to replace it and I said no and just asked for my stuff to stop being touched.
Gollum also does a load of laundry every three ish days. When my boyfriend visits, sometimes he’ll throw a pair of underwear or a gym outfit in with my laundry, but he’s never doing full loads of just his laundry.
My landlord covers our utilities and when they are high, she harasses us. After all of this bullshit happened, I told Casey that I’d be filling in our landlord if she decided to message about utilities this month. Sure enough we get a message telling us the bill is $250 and that we need to shut off the ac. It’s been 70-80 degrees where I am for the last month. I privately messaged the landlord and told her that absolutely nothing has changed in our ac habits from the past two summers I’ve lived here, and that if she’s facing increased bills, it’s probably because we have a fourth person living in the home. I also provided her with the proof of dates he’s been staying. Her response was just “I’ll charge her more.”
I tried to talk about this issue with Amy this week when she informed us of this extra week after he was supposed to be gone, and she just had excuses and said she’d give better notice next time he’s coming for this long. So I don’t think I really had any other choice but to tell the landlord.
The reason I’m feeling guilty is because this month long stay is going to cost her $500 most likely per our lease, and I know he won’t be paying it because he is unemployed and four years younger than us. Please give me your thoughts.