Why Cohabitating With Friends is BAD

Back in January my boyfriend (Brodie) & I found out we were going to have to move out of our apartment in Tarrytown (due to a family thing with our landlords) No big deal.. Except, I was unemployed & looking at the time & we had 3 weeks to find a new place. No way we were going to have the money to move into our own place. We opted to move in with an old friend of Brodie's.

I protested since I had seen the way this guy & his kid lived in their last house. Lets just say I got REALLY sick the one visit we made to that house. I had another friend we had lived with before that was willing to rent us a room. Brodie said that since his friend had this new girlfriend that they kept the house really clean. February we move in. By week 2 they were smoking in the house & everything in my closet stunk. They only cleaned house twice a week & they didn't try very hard.

To say the least my OCD freaked out & I went on a few cleaning sprees. After pleading with them to not smoke in the living room, they stopped (mostly). On to the kitchen.. They cook & leave all the dishes & food out over night. How we never had roaches is beyond me. There are 2 cats in the house, the cat box (in the living room) has been over-flowing for a week. I counted 50+ dead flies all over the kitchen a few days ago. If you turn the kitchen sink on you get a face full of fruit flies. They put fly paper up in the kitchen above the sink & dining table.. They bring fast-food home & leave the wrappers, drinks, & containers all over the living room..We were paying $400 a month to not leave our room because the rest of the house is unlivable. We are having to share a bathroom with the 19 year old boy who has no aim & doesn't flush. Their under-age guests come over, get drunk, & throw up on the bathroom floor & leave it for me to clean..The other girl in the house has an awful attitude.. Her boyfriend & I have had many civil adult conversations in reference to our living conditions, respecting others in the house, & people's attitudes.. As soon as she comes home our agreements go right out the window.

After conversation after conversation, begging & pleading, we finally just decided to get out.

With 4 days until our move date, you can cut the tension in this house with a knife.

They came home today, pretty sure he was drunk, & freaked out that the AC was on. It was set on 75.. It was 85 degrees in the house before I turned the AC on.. They leave every light in the house on, they leave 3 computers, & 2 TVs on ALL THE TIME, but we're not allowed to turn the AC on because we "Aren't paying the electric bill".

As sad as I am to say it. I'm pretty sure this experience has ruined this friendship. Brodie & I have only asked for a little common courtesy. While we are thankful to them for letting us take over a room in their house, I just feel like they spit in our faces over so many things.

Apparently we weren't paying enough in rent to have our wishes respected.

I'm just so glad this is almost over. Less than 4 days to go. We leave Sunday morning for Dallas, we drive back Monday & move into our new apartment. I'm disinfecting EVERYTHING!