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I've been living with my current roommate for about a year. It's an apartment. She's the only one on the lease. I pay her a flat rate for rent every month. She complained that last month the electric bill for our 2bd/2ba apartment was $300 and told me that I wash clothes too much and had to use the community laundry facilities. And she still expects rent in full. Her argument was that me doing laundry makes the bill higher. Before this argument occured I had been planning to move, so I told her that my use of electricity and water for shower, cooking etc increases the bill so I would just leave if it's an issue. I am moving by April 1. She said that I still cant do laundry in the apartment. I continued to say her argument was invalid since I'm using utilities for basic needs and left it at that. I do 2-3 loads of laundry weekly. Do I have any recourse here? Also, this person has financial management issues and I suspect is not allocating my rent money as she should due to a late rental notice on the door and her constant complaining about her bills are high and she has trouble with keeping money in her bank account
But if I'm paying rent which includes use of washer and dryer and I've used it for the past 11 months,washing the same amount of clothes as before, why should I now not be allowed to use it?
Do you guys have a written agreement? If so, it should say exactly how rent and utilities work. If not, then the rent does NOT include anything, certainly not utilities. Under normal circumstances, unless the rent is specified to include utilities, it doesn't include utilities and you should expect to pay additional amounts to split the utilities (probably half if there are only two people living there).
At best, you are wrong for assuming your rent includes utilities, even if it did in the past. She has to pay her half of the rent AND ALL utilities, yours included. Was that in writing in your agreement when you moved in? I'm guessing not, so you are wrong to assume you have the right, even if she was kind enough to let you get away with it for 11 months.
You are moving, so get over it for a few weeks and move on with your life, it's not worth the hassle or the stress.
so just tell her you'll do one or two loads a week, same as her. Besides you'll be moving out in 3 weeks anyway right?
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