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  • 01-04-2007 8:07am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    My flatmate owes me a quarter of a year's rent. The third month's was paid yesterday after they told me they had no money but that was after I was told that they WOULD have it, so I've been left with the entire amount to pay. I now have no money and am going to have to go to the bank and apply for an overdraft (any idea how long that takes, by the way?) tomorrow. I won't see my flatmate til next month's rent is due. That will be the last time probably, as I'm moving out to a new place then.

    They couldn't have done it at a worse time. My girlfriend's birthday is this month, I don't get paid til the friday before the rent is due and my dream of going to my first ever Glastonbury is shattered. I should be on the phone screaming at some SA right now, not on ranting on boards.ie. I know there's not much I can do. I just really needed to vent. Any words of advice/comfort, will be lovingly appreciated. Thanks.


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  • #2
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    I'd be evicting them if I was in your shoes. Anyone who lets their rent go for three months in a row is never going to pay you back. Time to cut your losses and get in someone who can pay next months rent.


  • #3
    wyndham
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭wyndham


    Did you sign the lease? how did the arrangement of them paying you come about, etc?


  • #4
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    Stop paying their bills.

    Even if they are friends.

    Stop paying their bills.

    No matter how long you know them.

    Stop paying their bills.

    And when you come across this scenario again, STOP PAYING THEIR BILLS.

    Easier said, i know, but you will find out in the long run that such people are not true friends.


    Stop it now before you have to look back in regret and say "I wish i didn't PAY THEIR BILLS".

    No joke. Cut it out now.

    k.


  • #5
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,427 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Got done by two people in this -- about six years ago, a friend moved in to my flat, we agreed a nominal rent and that we'd split all bills down the middle. After a year or two, he moved out and then paid off everything except half the flat's management service charge because he "wasn't legally obliged to", leaving me out of pocket for around five hundred quid. Then, three years ago, a junior female relative moved in for college, dropped college two months later, got a job, moped around the flat watching telly for a year, broke the double-glazed balcony window and other things, got a colony of *mold* started in her bedroom, then fcuked off twelve months later leaving around two thousand euro in phone, electricity, tv license, cable telly and rent bills unpaid. Relative didn't say either thanks, or even sorry.

    Somebody's not paying you? My sincere advice is to give them one week to pay and if they don't, get rid of them. There are plenty of decent people around who will stick to an honest agreement!


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