Flatmate Issues (2 Viewers)

[braindrainedAsh]

I'm posting this in here, because in non school people will just spam this thread.... and it kinda comes under "real estate".

I have whinged on here before about my problem flatmate (a loud American pot smoking frat boy whose friends never seem to leave our place)... they are NEVER quiet... right now I was trying to do some reading for uni and they are being so loud I can't hear myself think. They keep us up late (like, 4am in the morning late), wake us up early sometimes as well. They never go to class, they smoke hash on the balcony and they haven't washed any dishes since arriving in the country. Plus they are leeching off my wireless internet connection without paying, and I think they are downloading porn. After several attempts by me and my other flatmates to talk this through (which is always met by him yelling at us.... the other night he yelled at me with such ferocity after I tried to talk to him about how disgusting the kitchen is I was nearly shaking). Basically they make the kitchen filthy (using all of our kitchenware etc) eat our food without asking, throw things out that are ours without asking and totally occupy the lounge room so that we can't use that space (our apartment is VERY VERY small... our whole 4 bed apartment is minature so there is no escaping from them). Any attempt by us to discuss the situation have been to no avail.... I have gone out and yelled at them in the middle of the night but they have just continued on being noisy. It was so bad one night that I went to work after 3 hours sleep and then ended up bursting in to tears while I was walking home from work. They are physically intimidating, especially since there are basically four of them living in here, making any requests by us easy to laugh off and ignore.

I have spoken to the university housing service but they largely have done nothing... it's getting down to the business end of semester, I have lots of assignments due... I can't even ring people to interview them for journalism stories because they are swearing loudly in the background, it sounds like I am calling from a pub! My mother is horrified by their language when I call her... she can hear them loudly and clearly from Albury Wodonga.

I'm just at the end of my tether, I just don't know what to do.... I am so stressed, I have so much uni work to do... I hate being in my own apartment a lot of the time, like I am sitting here now trying to do research, I can't even hear myself think.... I'm just so stressed, the noise never stops.

Any suggestions? I've tried talking to him nicely, being a bitch..... going to the housing service. I just don't know what else I can do.... I'm thinking maybe should I call the police one night? Or will that just make the situation worse? Can you make a noise complaint about someone who lives in the same apartment as you?

 

[em_516]

that sounds really awful..i don't really know what you could do sorry..but maybe do your readings and assignments at the library? at least that will sort of fix ONE issue..(even though i guess they're 'winning')

 

[XavierKadic]

That's such a shame Ash.

My housemate situation is fairly good. It's like we're living separate lifestyles under the same roof. I'm out the earliest, and generally go to bed the earliest, but because my room has a stairwell, sometimes despite my best intentions I can't get to bed early, no matter what I do. (I don't mind though - I do complete some extra work for TAFE if needed.) Because of the living arrangements, I generally stay out of their affairs. Doesn't really worry me.

Apart from that there's only minor niggles, but we're one fairly harmonious little group.

 

[iamsickofyear12]

whats wrong with porn?

 

[Raiks]

Simple Solution: Call a locksmith. Change the locks.

Or the only other thing I can suggest is getting a locksmith to put a lock on your door. Another idea is buying a good knife, fork, spoon, splayd/spork, good plate and a glass. Then just use that, don't worry about the rest of the plates etc and after you finish with your plate and cutlery etc, just wash it up and take it back to your room.

And while your doing that, ring up the university housing service and do the following simple things, it's an easy process of getting a new place or getting the dickwads on a plane back home. Just ring them, complain that you are living in fear for your safety, you've been sexually assulted and you've had to resort to putting a deadlock on your door so you can keep them away. When they investigate, you'll have a lock on your door, an apartment which is a mess (make sure your room is spotless) and accusations which they can't prove are false.

It works, I've had a few female friends who've experienced the same problems and that is the only way to make sure you have action taken on your behalf.

 

[Soma]

Take a dump in his bed.


Ho11a!

 

[braindrainedAsh]

My room already has it's own lock.... we have these swipe card access things. He doesn't come in my room, I am in the room next to him so I can hear everything, and they take over the lounge room... with the dishes, I just wash my own stuff and put it away, but the problem is that the accumulated dishes makes cooking near impossible. Our kitchen consists of one small bench with a cook top and a sink.... the dishes take up the whole bench and fill the whole sink, so I have nowhere to chop up veggies or anything, it's even hard to use the stovetop properly with all the dishes.

He is such a wanker. Stupid americans they whinge about everything. Today he was whinging to his friends because I had a go at him.... I'm his flatmate, not his fucking maid. He made a remark today while he was yelling (he thinks that swearing at the dishes will make them wash themselves) that he should just throw all the dishes out the window.... wish he would, I wouldn't mind losing some of my crockery because then I could call the police and get him kicked out.

 

[supasoljah]

Yeh, you should throw away most of your un-needed dishes and keep a few for yourself. Also with the noise - get ear plugs for when studying, it reduces the total noise about 50-70% which is good. And for the wireless internet just encrypt the computer or the internet connection with a password so they can't access it.

 

[waddle_828]

My room already has it's own lock.... we have these swipe card access things. He doesn't come in my room, I am in the room next to him so I can hear everything, and they take over the lounge room... with the dishes, I just wash my own stuff and put it away, but the problem is that the accumulated dishes makes cooking near impossible. Our kitchen consists of one small bench with a cook top and a sink.... the dishes take up the whole bench and fill the whole sink, so I have nowhere to chop up veggies or anything, it's even hard to use the stovetop properly with all the dishes.

He is such a wanker. Stupid americans they whinge about everything. Today he was whinging to his friends because I had a go at him.... I'm his flatmate, not his fucking maid. He made a remark today while he was yelling (he thinks that swearing at the dishes will make them wash themselves) that he should just throw all the dishes out the window.... wish he would, I wouldn't mind losing some of my crockery because then I could call the police and get him kicked out.

that sucks so bad
i hope it turns out okay for you
do what the other guy said above
you and your good housemates accuse the bad housemate and friends of something incredibly bad
and get them kicked out

 

[supasoljah]

Yeh...I don' t think there are much Americans in the west....
But in the city at most uni's there are quite a few....also in the apartment complex im living in there are alot of canadians/americans and they seem like good people.

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Argh see my other flatmate did all the wireless network stuff for me so I don't know how it works.... I asked him to disconnect yankee from it but he "hasn't got around to it".... I don't think he wants to cause trouble, but I told him to tell yankee that I told him to disconnect him.

Half of this building is full of yanks. I have met about 2 that are tolerable, the rest are dumb skanks and idiots, all over here smoking up their parent's money. I have tried earplugs, and it helps a bit, but I can still hear them pretty loudly with earplugs in. These rooms are soundproofed also, that's how loud they are. I can't wear the earplug while I sleep though... it's uncomfortable, and then I may not hear my alarm in the morning. Canadians are so much cooler.

 

[supasoljah]

What suburb are you in??

 

[braindrainedAsh]

Ultimo, right near UTS. Why?

I got a little revenge tonight.... I all of a sudden remembered that I have a musical instrument (flute).... when the boys all started to come around get ready to start boozing, I got out my flute and played classical music as loudly as I could.... plus then played the same scale over and over and over again, and practiced playing my high notes as loudly and for as long as I could. I wasn't afraid to play wrong notes either, to add to their suffering. They didn't stay very long like they usually do. I may be practicing my flute more often from now on, I don't think they appreciate my classical repetoire.

 

[Hippy La-Laa]

YAY. Let's hear it for cool Canadians!!

 

[iambored]

lol sounds like you also need some classical music to help with the studying

that's an extreme situation, you need to get them kicked out. keep talking to whoever can get them kicked out because no one deserves to live with pigs.

 

[Cooleroo]

if you really get desperate, go to chinatown, get some marijuana or other illegal drug, plant it in the fuckers room and call the cops. he'll be on his way back to the usa.

make sure u dont leave behind any fingerprints. they'll find the hash floating around his blood and home he goes.

something else you can do is notice when he is sleeping and then turn on the music real loud for a few secs to wake him up. then he'll settle again, then turn it up again. keep doing that for a while. lol

if he screams at you and makes you feel unsafe, you have the right to notify the police, if need be, make up some story about how he threatened to beat you or something. police will fuck him up, nobody likes a wifebeater. its ok to bend the truth.

 

[Soma]

Just smoke some hash with him and chill the fuck out.


H011a!

 

[braindrainedAsh]

LOL at the surveillance thing... only prob is that I don't have any real equiptment for that. Maybe I should get one of my friends who is study MAP to come and make a film in our apartment LOL.

The main problem is that I don't really have time to go through the bureaucratic loopholes at the moment because I have so much uni work to do.

 

[champ_sammy_19]

if all else fails ash call the cops

 

[iambored]

do it in the most hassel free way possible because you don't want him coming back and threatening you

markmooks ideas were clever but he can never know you brought that evidence to them