I think my roommate is going into my room and going through my stufff. How do I catch her?
I used a glass of water to bust my roommate. I walked out of my room and closed the door most of the way, then with the little space left, I reached around the door and placed a 1/2 a glass of water close to it. Then shut the door. When I got home, the glass was FULL, but the floor was wet under the carpet......BUSTED! Just remember you left it there when you come home. Since it is water it doesnt cause any real damage. Cheap.....actually it is free.
How can I keep my roommate's dog from coming in my room?
So my boyfriend and I moved in with another couple. Altogether we have 4 cats (two of them being our cats) and they have a dog, a beagle I think that drives me crazy. Since my two cats stay mostly in this room to avoid the other cats they don't know/like, I have to leave the door open at all times so they have access to their litter box in the living room. Moving their litter box in here isn't an option because I'm pregnant and can't breathe in those toxins. Anyways, my roommate's dog comes in here any chance he gets. He eats the cat food, gets into/knocks over our garbage, makes messes while rummaging through everything and if he can find any spec of food, he will eat it. We've been very stern with him. We yell, we literally have to force him out of the room because he will not leave on his own accord, we even have gone so far as to lock him in our roommate's room until they get home because he literally will come in our room and terrorize it every chance he gets. It's getting very tiresome trying to teach this dog something. He clearly has never been disciplined in his life and is very disobedient and spoiled. Any suggestions as to keeping him out? It's our personal space and I just want it to ourselves. It is really driving me crazy that this dog is barging in and eating my cat's food and even our food if he can get his paws on it. What can I do? Please help!
How To Tell If Roommate Is Sneaking In My Room?
Ok so i have one roommate and i dont know how but some how he gets in my room( and i have a lock on my door).... a few months ago i went on tour with my band for 3 weeks and he got in my room and took my xbox360 out to the living room and was playing it,by opening my window and crawling threw so i but a metal bar between the windows so he cant get in that way but now i still think he gets in someway.... i have cable and internet in my room cause he is to cheap to help pay for them so he can have it in his room... how can i see if he gets in or not? (cheap ways to find out lol i dont want to buy a web cam or anything like that) Thanks
Roommate going in my room and borrowing stuff?
I know it's not the end of the world, but my brand-new roommate seems to think that she can come into my bedroom when I am gone and borrow my phone charger. When I get to the apartment, I have to search the living room, kitchen, or wait for her to come home to see if it's in her bedroom before I can charge my phone. I tend to be unorganized, and my best defense against this is keeping my stuff in the same place. Also, it's nit-picky, but I don't really want her walking in my room to help herself. Is there a way that I can resolve this without coming across as an a**? Buy a "house charger," and tell her not to move it into her room? Lock my door? She has been really cool about lending stuff like her tools, so it's not that I care that she uses it. I mostly just care that I can't find it when I get home. I have gone a couple nights with a dead phone because she wasn't home to tell me where she left it, and I refuse to dig through stuff in her room.
What can i legally do about my roommate breaking into my room?
You call the police and file a theft charge. Roommate trespassing is going to be a touchy issue. You haven't given us a ton to go on here, but I know that in single lodger situations, it can be trespassing. And to show a property, a landlord usually only needs to give notice not get permission.
How can I kindly tell my roommate that he is going to have to go get a hotel room with his girl because I’m no longer leaving for them?
You are room mates so the conditions of sharing the space must be mutually agreed. If you two discussed what to do when the other has company before agreeing to be room mates, abide by that or remind him of the agreement. If you didn’t, time to have that chat. You two will need to come to an agreement or get another room mate. Compromise is in order. At least until one of you can move out if you can’t agree. Being 100% accommodating or 100% stubborn isn’t the best approach when dealing with a cohabitation situation. Everyone must give a little. Not all the time. But it is sort of understood that overlapping life issues will be present when you have a roomie.He can spend time with her in his room or with you in the common areas while there on the days you don’t want to go out. In the future, plan a day a week you will be going to do something and offer that up as the day he can bring her over. That isn’t a stretch to ask of each other. Remind him that they can also spend time at her place. They have that option. You do not. On the same line, if they are spending that much time together, ask him if they’ve talked about moving in together and then you have no problem.
If your roommate had a gun in her room, should she tell you a condition before moving in?
Thank you for the news link which explained some of the circumstances. If my roommate had a gun then I would talk about it, why, and so forth, then ask if we could go to the shooting range and teach me how to use it. (I have done this already). But I learned how to shoot at age 11 and am a marksman (I am a physical education teacher and athlete). So when we went to the shooting range - I did better than he did, lol. But I did learn how to clean a handgun. In your question you ask if the roommate should tell you “a condition” but this is an awkward sentence, so I am not sure what you mean. In the news article the other roommates inspected her room which is, in fact, a serious invasion of privacy. I would suggest to the student with the gun - sue the landlord and the roommates for invasion of privacy, breech of contract, defamation of character and anything else I could find after spending 3 days studying local laws. I would move out because i would no longer trust the roommates, and I would sue them until they go into bankruptcy.
How to tell if my room mate is smoking crack or meth.?
ok so your roommate is acting very strange, and he comes in at all hours of the night? and yesterday you went into his room because his door was open and you smelt something that made you want to puke. you must be a cop lover, or a cop wanna be. to go by someones private room and see that they left the door open, and then instead of closeing it, like you should have you go inside and come to the concluson that hes useing your house to get high in,an want to know to confront him about it? if i was you i would be hoping that he dosnt find out that you were in his room,an looking thu his belongings, an than start thinking hes smoking some kind of drug. i have tryed smoking both crack an meth, an i know this much, that neither of them have a smell that makes you waht to puke. an if that light bulb did not look like it had burn marks on it, i would let it go.
I think my roommate is stealing from me. How do I confront him?
Tough. I've been there. This being your roommate, you are between a rock and a hard place. Stealing is a serious issue. It's not one you are going to change. This is a way of life. You are stuck with minimizing the damage until you can protect your property, which should be done by leaving. To manage the situation, however, I would ask your roomate if s/he had seen your "x"? It was there this morning, and now you can't find it. If this continues, you must put a lock on your door. Perhaps the behavior will change. Still, you should go. People who steal have no boundaries. They cannot be changed. You cannot trust them. It is not a matter of "if" they will steal again, but a matter of "when." What's yours is theirs. But since you live with this person, you need as much harmony as you can manage. And a flat out confrontation will only lead to disintegration of your home. That, you don't need. Before you leave, you can steal it back. In my case, something was taken off our common roof in an apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn. We shared the space on the roof. All summer, there were gatherings. But one thing I had up there was too good to not take. The young woman across the hall took my plant and the beautiful pot it was in, and put it in her window. A month went by. I seethed and plotted all summer. In the fall, I had an idea. I heard her leave the apartment alone. I knocked on their door, and her boyfriend answered. I asked him a question. And as he answered, I stopped him, and pointed to my plant. "Oh, can I get this back?" I said. "She borrowed it." I just glided through the door as he stood, stunned, and I picked up the conversation again as I lifted my pot off the sill, and turned, smiling, and glided back out the door and we finished our conversation. We remained "friendly." But I could never leave anything up there again. Avoid confrontation. Diplomacy is underrated. You know the deal. Work with your roommate. There's no place like home.