Ugh. Never have roommates, it's a bad idea. I'll summerize.
Last July I was working at a fast food restuarant. I became pretty good friends with a girl(who's 22) that worked there..was friends with her throughout her whole pregnancy and knew that the babies father had a tendency to become aggressive with her. Well, they ended up moving in together and baby made three and life was good for a few months and then he started hitting her. So she moved back in with her mom. Her mom is a nasty slob and it wasn't healthy for her or her little boy to live there. Let me also mention that at this time the father of her child is with another woman who he has gotten pregnant also.(she later miscarries) SO and I had a house but we wanted to move a little closer to our jobs and we suggested she room with us in an apartment. (I wasn't pregnant at this time-or rather, I was unaware.) So we move in together. Life is good. Life stays good for 4 months. Well, her little boy's dad starts coming around again, and eventually sleep overs turn into him moving in. *sigh* I should have known then that s**t was going to hit the fan.
Then it starts becoming a hassle to get rent money from them. We have to pay rent with a check and I'm the only one with a checking account so I have to get rent the day before it's due and deposit it so it will be there when the check is cashed. At my apartment complex rent is due on the 1st and it's late on the 2nd. So, rent is a time sensitive issue. The month of December I had to drive to his work to get rent from him because he hadn't given it to me yet, and then he proceeds to tell me that he doesn't have it all, he promises he'll pay me back if I can just cover it. *smacks forehead again* He did pay me back but the principle of the matter is what bothered me. The due date for rent has always been the same, you should budget yourself around that.
So, fast forward to the end of January, I have the baby! Of course I take off work. So I'm home all day, yay! Let me mention here also that I never leave my room. I'm a pretty private person and I just don't have a need for a lot of space, so my roommates had the rest of the apartment to themselves, with the exception of the bathroom. I didn't even cook when they were here. Although all of the dishes and cookware are mine that they so pleasantly ruined with their "cooking" So..roommates have apartment to themselves. I am even courteous enough to not let my baby so much as make a sound at night because I don't want him waking them up. So I'm co-sleeping right now instead of letting him cry in his crib to fall asleep.
So I've been off work for two weeks. I JUST went back to work Monday, and I'm not able to pump enough to work more than just a few hours at a time. As much as I hate it Nolan is going to have to go on formula at night so I can work more and I hope he'll still want to breastfeed during the day. Anyway. So my SO and my original roommate work together. When he gets to work yesterday she tells him that they will be moving out, THAT DAY. He said she seemed embarassed about it and I hope she feels like crap. She said that her SO put down a deposit somewhere else without telling her so now they have to move. I think she is full of it. You don't just go put down a deposit somewhere else without telling your SO. Especially not when you are under lease at your current place. Both her and my name was on the lease but she went to the apartment manager and had them take her name off, is that even legal? How is it that she is able to break lease? Because I'm still living here? I will be madder than hell if that affects getting my deposit back when I move out.
But anyway, so if you've made it all the way down here, essentially my roommates knew that they were going to move out, but instead of giving us any kind of warning, they wait until I miss a paycheck and then go back to work VERY part time to tell us. My SO says good riddance but I feel like crying about it. I feel like she slapped me in the face. I was trying to help her out when she was in a bad situation initially. I even watched her little boy for her when she couldn't find a babysitter. So, now I have an empty apartment, with the exception of my room. No furniture to sit on, lol..and both me and SO have to pick up more hours at work to cover the rent b/c it just doubled with them being gone, so there goes the few hours a day we got to see each other inbetween our shifts. (He works days and I work nights.) I'm p*ssed! (and hurt)
Kudos if you made it through this.