Meet Jeb, a roommate from hell originally posted on SomethingAwful.com ages ago: http://www.wyseguys.com/blag/shitty-roommate/meet-jed/
Here's another classic, the Shay story:
Worst Roommate Ever
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes in this instance false negatives are very bad. It's better to reject ten perfectly acceptable roommates than to accept one crazy ax-murderer roommate.
not for those ten potential roommates it's not. :) Is it really rational to reject those 10 roommates for no good reason to avoid the 1 in a million hellish roommates?
>not for those ten potential roommates it's not. :)
But you're doing what makes sense for yourself. Why would you consider a random stranger above yourself in such a situation?
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there's nothing I can do about it whatsoever That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something. And giving people housing is important, that's why the laws often favor the person renting, not the owner. The laws is a risk you have to take if you want to rent out your place. Price it in…
> That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something. It depends where. In France you are completely stuck when someone dies not pay. It can take over a year to finally kick someone out. And this is just if he is not paying. If someone pays, it is simply impossible. Every three years you may take back the house for your or your close family use only. You cannot sell it empty. You cannot…
If someone dies and does not pay, and it still takes a year to kick them out, won't the body be severely decomposed then?
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#124NYT has jumped the shark. The Trump shit hole comment was an "alleged" comment but they failed to use that quakifier. Something you have to expect from the top newspaper on earth. Edit: come out of hiding Mr downvoter and argue on facts. Downvoted only warm my heart because I know Trump haters don't have any valid points to argue on and just wait for cnn to tell them what to think ,and to not read wiki leaks because…
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445421 and marked it off-topic. I'm sorry, but if you continue to post like this we'll ban the account.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I support him. If you want "tenant rights" you can sign appropriate lease contract that allows you to stay longer in case you are in some trouble. Perhaps you could also buy some insurance for that. But why owner of the property would have to keep it in hands of somebody who is not paying? Because tenant is in some bad life situation? I think in most cases if that really would be the case, property owner would help,…
Professionally managed properties respond to this by issuing a “pay or quit” notice immediately when you miss a payment, then begin eviction proceedings as soon as they can. Sometimes it can take a few months, but they’ll have the cops come and escort you away if they have to. At my apartment complex, like clockwork, you’ll see folded-over papers taped to doors the first week of every month. Home owners renting a roo…
I think understanding the law is key here, so you can reduce your risk as an owner.
If it takes 2 months to evict someone, then your deposit should be 2 months and you start the process the day after rent was due.
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#126The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren't on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven't paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out. As a forme…
In the UK if the landlord lives at the same place (i.e. you live with the landlord) then you have far less rights as a tenant. Including a very short notice period.
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#127Meet Jeb, a roommate from hell originally posted on SomethingAwful.com ages ago: http://www.wyseguys.com/blag/shitty-roommate/meet-jed/
Wait. Is this the same "Jeb"?
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something. It depends where. In France you are completely stuck when someone dies not pay. It can take over a year to finally kick someone out. And this is just if he is not paying. If someone pays, it is simply impossible. Every three years you may take back the house for your or your close family use only. You cannot sell it empty. You cannot…
> It depends where. In France you are completely stuck when someone dies not pay. It can take over a year to finally kick someone out. But then how do you kick them out? By doing something ! Which was my point. Saying "nothing whatsoever to do about it" is a lie by the OP. I'm not saying all the rules are sane. But it's better to protect the weak that need roof over their heads, than the persons renting out a house t…
> ...than the persons renting out a house they don't need.
Is a camera rental company just "renting out cameras they don't need"? Maintaining rental properties is a livelihood, a bad faith tenant is just as abusive as a bad faith landlord.
People buy properties on loans to rent them out, when a tenant refuses to pay the rent, the utilities and the loan payments fall to the landlord. The obvious effect of this is that only people who can afford to lease and rent many properties out at once to spread the cost of this can become landlords.
Furthermore, if this dwelling is some part of an existing home, and you can't evict them for violating the lease agreement, then you have unwanted strangers who don't care about you, forcibly staying in your own home. You don't have to be a steenking bourgeois to own a home, and you don't need to be "advantaged" to draw the short end of this straw.
Some countries have a mix of laws for tenant relations, for example sublet agreements in some places are afforded little or none of the extreme tenant rights that direct let agreements are. That would likely have helped in this article's situation.
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#129The author of ZeroMQ wrote a book on recognizing people like this, and more importantly how to get yourself out of prison they’ve put you in. The action plans have helped me. The lucky ones in the NYmag article here did many of the things he recommends. Free PDF here, look for the hard to find “read” button. https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details
I'm sure this will be unpopular, but: I once had a psychopath like this turn up in my life. Like a lot of these stories, it escalated slowly, one creepy / inappropriate thing at a time. There really is a frog in hot water effect in play here. If you haven't experienced it, it might be hard to understand why someone let themselves be in that situation at all. What I don't understand, however, is why people don't deal…
Your psychopath wasn't very good at it. The good ones pick their prey more carefully; they pick the people who won't fight back.
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#130Just the thought of being forced out of my house, or even having it invaded confrontationally by someone like this who is relentless and antagonistic, immediately gives me the gut reaction that if I take a baseball bat at night, catch him while he's sleeping, and beat him badly enough to the point where I can safely call the cops and claim I just defended myself after he tried to drag me into his room and I grabbed a…
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