Flatmate trouble

[MGST]

This is a bit of a read, but have a laugh at my expense on this Sunday morning, and then vote and add comments.

I live by myself, and I've got a big mortgage, work 7 days a week, so I thought I'd rent out the spare bedroom to help the cash flow. Add on TM, some sheila rings up, comes to look ( turned up late - I should have known then that she was trouble ) and says ok. Turns out she's Brazilian ( don't get carried away, she got a real good dose of the ugly stick ), and you can't even have a reasonable conversation with her cos her English is piss poor. Anyway, we move all her gear in ( 15 April 2008 ), and I ask her to sign the standard rental / tenancy papers ( off the Government website ), pay bond etc, THEN she tells me she is here on visitors permit and that runs out 25 May 2008, so if she doesn't get a job by then and a work permit, she will have to leave the country, so she doesn't want to sign etc until she knows what she is doing. I nearly told her to fuck off right there and then.

Anyway, things go reasonable for the first week. I go shopping every Saturday morning straight from work ( 8am ). I tell her on Friday night if she wants to go shopping this is when I go, she is welcome to come and I can come home from work and pick her up and go to the shops. Shes says yes, and 8am is no problem. So I get home 8am, shes eating some vegan bird seed shit and drinking Christ knows what, no where near ready. 15 minutes later she wanders out, no sorry for keeping you waiting or anything.

She washes ( in cold water I find out later on ) her daytime dishes ( shes unemployed remember ) after lunch sometime, but leaves my 1 breakfast bowl and 1 spoon. WTF? Then she leave the dishes out on the bench and fucks off. I come home from work to find a bench full of allegidly ( sp? ) clean ( you can't hygenically clean dishes in cold water ) dishes all over the bench. So I put them all away so I can use the bench to start on dinner ( small benches, its a 2 bedroom unit ). I told her that night when she got home if she is going to wash the dishes, dry them and put them away straight away.

One day I get home from work and put the washing on, and sit down for a few minutes before I have to start on dinner, and start watching World Sper Bikes from Assen. The washing machine starts doing its thing, and then empties the water, and I think "that doesn't sound right". Sure enough, 1 inch of water all over the floor and increasing fast, cos the stupid bitch has, for some reason she couldn't even explain later when I blew the fuck out of her, moved to drain out of the sink and left it hanging down the back of the machine!! Fuck I was SSSSSOOOOO WWWWWIIIILLLLDDDDILD!!!!

Just before she came, I had spent every Saturday and Sunday for a month rotary hoeing my lawn, pulling out the tree roots, skredding it, and levelling it. After she had moved in, I was still levelling the last bit and then planted grass seed. She has seen my doing it and even commented on it a few times. On Tuesday just gone, some lowlife drops her home at 6:30pm and she steps out of the car and proceeds to stand there and watch him start to drive on it to turn around. I was doing the dishes ( properly, in hot water ) at the time and the kitchen looks out onto the driveway. Well I started shouting and screaming and swearing out the window to "get the fuck off my lawn NOW!!!" So theres 2 tire tracks for about a metre in my nice new lawn, and cos it has been raining the last 2 weeks the ground is soft and the car has squashed it down about 4 inches. Fuck I was SSSSSOOOOO WWWWWIIIIILLLLLDDDDD
She comes in the door and I say "Who is that moron?" She says " don't worry, life is too short to worry about things like that" That floored me, and I was so wild I didn't know what to say.

She was not born in a tent, rather I think she was born in a cave, cos in the whole time she has ben here ( too fucken long!! ) she has never opened a window. Thankfully she is out for most of everday, I don't know hwere and I don't care where. So I open the house windows, and the windows in her bedroom so the place can air out. When it get dark at night I go around the house and shut the windows and shut the curtains, her room included. Most nights she doesn't come home until well after dark, around 6:30 or 7pm. Sometimes if the washing is not quite dry by the next time I need the line, I put the clothes in the dryer to finish off. Once her shirts etc were still damp too so I just threw the whole lot ( mine, hers, towles etc ) in the dryer. She also has a habit of leaving her towel folded up on the towel rail. It will never dry when it is folded up so I open it out so it can dry. I provide the linen BTW.

Anyway the point of this thread is: this morning I get home from work and there's a note on the floor in the hallway. It reads exactly:

"Andrew
Please, don't open the windows, or close the curtain in the room I have rented. Even, don't touch in my belongings ( clothes...) and the towel I have used. Even, don't open the door of the room I have rented ( if I leave it closed ). Please, don't put the chain if I go out ( I never know if I will come back or not ).
Thanks, Valeria."

Well FUCK THAT. Who the fuck owns the house here? Nobody, but NOBODY, especially some worthless immigrant, tells me what to do in my own house!!

I don't want the house to go moldy (sp? ) and stale, so I open the windows. When she doesn't come home till all hours, I close the curtains. I have never touched any of her stuff. I put her clothes in the dryer once. What the fuck is the problem with me touching the towel? I open the door for the same reason as the windows, and I always have my bedroom door open so it's not like I'm asking het to do things I don't. I can understand the chain on the door, but it would be nice it she told me when she goes out if she at lest thinks she might or might not be coming home before daylight the next morning. She doesn't want me to go into her room even to shut the curtains, but she expects me to let her use my computer in my room. Well that just finished! I'm getting fucking aggrevated!!

So, please vote on what you think I should do. She is out now ( again ) so I can't blow her up right now. Incase I can't get the pole to work, here are the options;

1: Lay the law down, and then tell her to FUCK OFF, effective within 48 hours
2: Lay the lay down, but let her stay until the 25th when she has to leave the country
3: Let it go, but then tell her to FUCK OFF anyway, effective within 48 hours
4: Let it go, and let her stay, its only another 14 days.

[ynot slow]

Ithink you've answered your question,it's YOUR home,YOUR rules,YOUR OUT.

[Virago]

Mate, I'll be brutally honest here.

I think you're just a bit too set in your ways (borderline anal), to take in a stranger as a flatmate like this.

Get her out as soon as you can, and try to find someone that you know (and can trust) to flat with you.

[kiwifruit]

You're just not cut out for the flatting thing (neither am i B.T.W)

[MIXONE]

Until you have owned a house of your own you just do not appreciate things the same.I have oicked option 2 but would resort to option 1 the next time she steps out of line.
Even if she hit every branch on the way down after falling out of the ugly tree there are still plenty of kbers who would come around and hit it for you.Invite a few of them round to give her the once over and it might encourage her to fuck off all on her own.

[kevfromcoro]

well if its worying you...chuck the cunt out...
i got the same thing here.......asain shellia..wont wash my dishes..and yet i do hers....bla bla...
wish we could do something about these immigrants...
BTW... my problem is a bit more serious......
like $$$$$$$$$$$$$...

[Mikkel]

I'd say kick her arse out today...

Alas, if she has paid her bond and signed the lease you're stuck with her under the NZ tenancy laws.

Crappy flatmates suck!

[jonbuoy]

Your too uptight to have flatmates, no flatmates ever treat the place like it "theirs". FWIT so am I these days. Only time flatting is good is in a big old house when everyone signs the tenancy agreement, everyone around the same age and all sociable. Flatting in a small unit like that with a stranger will never work. You do sound like the landlady from hell, going into someones room to open a window is an invasion of their privacy. She's probably bitching to all her mates about the psyco from hell ranting on at her for being 15minutes late to go shopping and not unfolding her towel on the towel rail - seriously??!! You haven't had a flatmate from hell yet trust me! Just a girl fresh out of home and not used to doing things around the house. No wonder she doesn't come home till its dark - too scared you'll chew her out for leaving crumbs in the butter or something equally petty.

[timaruIP]

Everyone knows what you should do, you knew before you spent half an hour on the internet bitching. I doubt you will kick her out. An if you do summon up the courage one drunken afternoon it would be a polite email.

Harden the fuck up.

[MGST]

Well I'd like to agree with most of you here.

Virago, I probably am too set in my ways. I have been living bemyself for the last 2 1/2 years, but I knew I would have to make some allowances, but this is just ridiclous.

Kevfrocoro, I'm only doing it for the $$$ too. I was quite happy by myself, and after this, I doubt I ever have another flatmate, the extra $$ isn't worth the hassle.

Mikkel, Not signing the papers was the first thing that pissed me off, and I pointed out to her that if she doesn't sign I could throw her out with no warning. So I can throw her out now and she has got no comeback

Jonboy, she isn't rough with the place, and she's not fresh from home either. She's travelled all over the world, and has been flatting with kiwis her for the last 5 months. Shes in her late 20's early 30's, so should be able to grasp the concept tha a wet towle will not dry if left folded up. That's basic shit that you would expect ( maybe ) to have to tell a teenager whose Mum has wiped their arse their whole life, not an adult. I don't want a shitfight with you, but how the hell is going into the room and opening the window or closing the curtains, an invasion of her privacy??

[owner]

lawn towel15minsdishes
Dude have you ever lived with anyone?

[Virago]

Best thing to do is treat this as a failed experiment. Not her fault, not yours.

Get rid of her and move on.

Good luck.

[Mikkel]

In that case - have a chat and let her know that if she doesn't sort her shit out (effective immediately) she'll have to do it somewhere else.

As she said - life's too short for this kinda shit!

[MGST]

lawn towel15minsdishes
Dude have you ever lived with anyone?

Dude, the lawn thing is a total lack of respect for other people's property
the towel thing is just plain think
the 15 mins thing is a total lack of respect for other people
and the dishes thing is just thick too.

The way I see it, she's thick and got no respect.

And no I haven't lived with people other than my family, and after this I won't be ever again either! Bacholar for life!

[SlashWylde]

1: Lay the law down, and then tell her to FUCK OFF, effective within 48 hours

It's your house bro, therefore your rules. She's a space cadet and she aint gonna improve so you might as well cut your losses and get rid of her ASAP.

You have the benefit of being in the position of choosing your flatmates, so choose wisely and don't be so accomodating - trust your instincts about a candidates character.