Shauk

Seriously, imagine this.

You're an adult, you enter in to a 2 person lease for 6 months, 500$ a month for a 2bd, 300$ deposit. (yeah yeah, cheap, I know, save it)

After 6 months it goes month to month.

You pay this money to the rental company.

One day, you decide you want to move out. You give your 30 days notice, but instead of coordinating a move in date which would prevent you from having to pay rent on 2 different places at once, you move less than a week after you give your notice.


This is what my ex roommate did.


Now, he's refusing to pay his portion of the prorated rent.
also, he thinks that somehow he's instantly entitled to half of the deposit which he pretty much forfeited by moving out and breaking off his lease.

In an effort to be nice about it, I've made several compromise attempts.

Including, offering to let him just pay the 125$ for 15 days of April, while I shoulder all of the utilities, in exchange for him waiting until a) I find a roommate to buy out his deposit, or b) move out because I can't afford the place on my own anyway, thus releasing the deposit anyway.

or

Having him find a replacement roommate for me before the beginning of April so there was no lapse in rent, and keeping the 125$ he would have paid, and I would have just paid him 25$ for the difference to equal the 150$ deposit he paid.


as it stands now, he's paid nothing, he's made no effort to find a roommate, and he cleaned up nothing when he left, the upstairs bathroom looks asshair-mart.

Technically he didn't give his notice until the 17th but because he wrote the notice on the 15th, she went ahead and set it to april 15th as his move out date.


well, anyways I got his move out confirmation notice on my door today, I have his msn.

Oh yeah, he's a mentally infantile child in an adult body, he also has gender issues and wants to be a woman so he misrepresents himself online to everyone as "Sarah"


Furthermore, and here's the important bit. He doesn't nor has ever, worked a day in his life the entire time that I've known him. His mother pays the rent. That's right, the money he's fighting tooth and nail for? He's done nothing to earn it, much less act like he's entitled to it, aside from convince his mother that he's suicidal and needs to remain in a constant state of support.

enjoy.

This is what happens when you let someone live with you as a favor to a friend. "help my cousin out, he needs a place to stay, his mother pays his rent, etc..."


♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) said:
whats up
Got a notice from Mindy for you
basically just says she needs 125$ or whatever, dunno if you wanna drop that off here or need a ride or something, let me know

Sarah says:
k well i need 150 from you for my part of teh deposit

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
"I recieved your 30 day notice. You are scheduled to move out on the 15th of April. You are responsible for 15 days of rent for the month of April. Your portion of the prorated amount is $125. Please pay this on or before the 5th of April to avoid any late fees."
that's the notice for ya.

Sarah says:
k well i will talk to her
becuase you owe me money

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
we already went over this

Sarah says:
you or her
dude
fuck off you are just being a faggot
you are just trying to get out of half the deposit

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
no, we already went over this

Sarah says:
becuase you spent like 300 dollars on fucking bad company

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
I did what?
3/17/2010 3:50:55 PM Sarah as long as i get theirs
3/17/2010 3:50:56 PM Sarah im fine with that
3/17/2010 3:51:24 PM Sarah okay
3/17/2010 3:52:00 PM Sarah if you want to go to the bank now we can drop it
again
we talked about this

Sarah says:
go away

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
no i wont go away

Sarah says:
i will talk to her monday
after that

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
this isnt going to go away

Sarah says:
leave me alone

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
I'll leave you alone when you act responsibly

Sarah says:
you are the biggest prick ive ever met james

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
call your mom or whatever it is you have to do

Sarah says:
you owe me money
and i will talk to her about it
either i will get it from her
or from you
we paid half of the deposit each
you are just trying to back out now
becuase you think youa rethe only person in the world or something

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
have I not told you like 738174 times now that you get the deposit from the next roommate?
have you done anything to try to fill the room?
no
I'm doing it all

Sarah says:
its not my job
its your job

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
if you want your deposit faster, it's your job
that's how this is playing out.

Sarah says:
its also not my job to wait for yout o find a roomate

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
that doesn't negate what you owe on rent

Sarah says:
which is why im going to talk to her

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
talk all you want, it's in writing

Sarah says:
if you are going to be a prick about it

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
i've got you logged as saying you would pay it too

Sarah says:
i will ask her to split up the dposit since im leaving

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
I can be a prick

Sarah says:
becuase you wouldnt shut the fuck up
becuase you are dumb faggot

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
i can take it to court if you want

Sarah says:
there is a reason i moved

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
don't fuck around

Sarah says:
now leave me the fuck alone

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
what's your address?

Sarah says:
go away

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
no
not going to happen

Sarah says:
blocking you now

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
resolve this

Sarah says:
i have no reasno to talk to you
i willt akl ot her on monday
i have no reason to speak to you
now please fuck off

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
i'll just get your mothers number then
we'll deal with this

Sarah says:
are you dumb?
are you seriously taht stupid?
monday is before the 5th
now fuck off

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
if you're not going to deal with this like an adult with your childish "fuck off faggot" remarks then I need to speak with an adult who is responsible for your rental agreement
or you can grow up and reason with me on this

Sarah says:
do you not get it

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
your choice

Sarah says:
you mean absolutly nothing in this
the rental agreement is with her
which i am going to talk to

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
you think she's just going to let you out of it?

Sarah says:
i am going to talk to her about the depoit since you are so unwilling to be reasonable
are
you
stupid?

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
because I already talked to her

Sarah says:
you are arnt you
ill deal with wahtever

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
what's to talk about? 125$

Sarah says:
i just figured that you are a prick

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
how am I a prick?

Sarah says:
now go away

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
you're the one telling me I owe you money

Sarah says:
we went half and half on the deposit

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
despite us already talking about it on the 17th

Sarah says:
youa re just being a prick to get out of it

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
where you were ok with me just giving you the deposit when either I move out or get a roommate which will happen in a month either way

Sarah says:
i moved out becuase i coudlnt deal with you
now you sit here and bug me on msn
i siad i would go talk to her
now leave me alone

♪♫◄Shauk.DJ►♫♪ (Desktop) says:
ok maybe i'm stupid, i just dont understand how your "talking" to her is equivocal to just taking care of the rest of your 30 day notice like you should

Sarah says:
becuase im going to talk to her about the deposit
that has absolutly nothing to do with rent
now please leave me alone













Well, as you can see, this mentally infantile individual is choosing to express his adulthood in the most poor manner ever.

considering his mother is the only person doling out the finances, I think my best bet will be to contact her and let her know that she agreed to let him enter a rental arrangement with my property management company and that he's choosing to withhold money that he owes due to his own poor execution in planning to move out.

I've never had to file a court case before nor do I even really know what is involved, I'm thinking I'll be wandering down there asking a lot of questions.


I was just wondering, a list of facts here.
I have a notice from the landlord acknowledging his 30 day notice, stating he owes 125$ for his portion of the prorated 15 days of April
I have a friend that we both used to live with, who can state that this guy will screw you over when he moves out on money owed since it happened to him before.
I have chat logs (which I'm not sure qualify as evidence) of him stating that he would pay, then later saying that he wouldn't pay because he thinks that he's entitled to half of the deposit.


Overall, it's a wash if I leave it out of court, being that the 150 of the deposit would stay on file under my name entirely, but i'd cough up an extra 125 for his missing portion of the rent. (end result, I make 25 bucks)

The way he's acting now though, the landlord says if he does not pay by the time his lease is up, he forfeits any claim to the deposit, and that it's my responsibility to choose if I want to pursue him for the rent money since at that point, the debt will become mine to owe on the unit (again, not an issue, I can cover it)


Just wondering how worth it it would be to pursue him after he admits to defaulting on his written agreement to honor his half of the rent, netting me both the 150 on file with the rental co, and the 125 he owes me + court fees.

I don't know, seems to me it's worth it based on how angry I am at all the names and accusations he throws at me.