Redditor Requests Roommate To Cover 10 Days' Rent For Failing To Move Out As Promised

Having a roommate is always difficult and ending things with a lease or roommate can be even more complicated.

Daphnie

• Published in Interesting
• August 31, 2023

We're back again with another post that was submitted to the AITA thread on Reddit. We've gone over many of these different AITA thread posts before because this thread is usually heavy with posts and so many people have tons of perspectives and opinions that they want to leave down below.

This thread is just the perfect place to get advice on a situation that you might not want to talk about your family or friends with. With this being said, we're looking into a post today submitted by a woman who wants to know if she's wrong for asking her roommate to pay her ten days' rent after not moving out/returning her key at the time that she said she would.

The roommate hasn't responded, and there seems to be no progression, but OP still wants to know if she's wrong for even asking for the 10-day rent. Some people might think it's ridiculous to pay for rent for 10 days, but others understand the severity of a roommate agreement like this and what each of them was expecting to pay.

So if you want to see the full post and a look into the best comments on the post as well, then keep on reading as we dive in and show you the full original post, plus some of the most popular comments.

OP begins explaining the situation with her ex roommate and the timeline of when she was supposed to leave.

This is when things started to get weird and OP was having trouble reaching her ex-roommate to talk about this.

It didn't end on the right foot and we definitely think that if they had an agreement then she should've stuck to it.

People immediately are telling her just to take it to court because she'll win the case quickly and it'll be solved legally.

It seems like people were on OP's side with this and said that she is responsible for paying the rent for those 10 days.

If OP's roommate had just given the keys back then there would be no issue. People are pointing out the inconvenience of her not returning the keys in time.

She probably did do it on purpose knowing that she needed to get another roommate, but obviously it came back to bite her.

Some people requested a bit more info and OP gave some more insight into how the bills were split.

Yeah we definitely don't think that she's going to get paid for anything.

We actually would like to hear about that too because it might give insight to how they were thinking.

It seems like everyone is agreeing on OP's roommate being TA here.

People all over are telling her to take her to court for not paying or if she doesn't pay.

We definitely feel like OP's NTA here but we honestly don't think that she's going to get any payment from her roommate. We think that she should just cut her losses and drop the roommate, agree to just move on.

How would you have reacted to your roommate doing this and not planning to pay you?

Daphnie