a little help please for a renter with a no good roomate (subletting)

[ambr17e]

I live in a apt with a roomate and my fiance we have a basset hound who is potty trained and the roomate has a german shephard who is not everyday i come home to poop he never bothers to pick up because he got back together with his gf and hasnt stayed here but his dogs poops when they come back and he just leaves it I mean of course i pick it up i dont want poop in my floor his dog has also destroyed the crown molding in the closet of the room he's staying in and totally destroyed the carpet I want him to pay to fix the carpet before he goes is there anyway we can get him to leave even if he has his own lease and we can stay I mean as long as rent gets paid I think we'd be doing him a favor so he doesnt have to pay for somewhere he doesnt stay and we can get that demon dog out

[cruelkitti]

Have you talked to him about it at all? Are you expecting him to be unreasonable about it?

[badhornet]

what a poopy situation

[artsyguy]

Pick it up if you don't like it. This is common sense.

[cmacemm]

Maybe he just gets pissed that you don't know how to make sentences.

[AusParent]

What's the nature of the lease? If the roommate is subleasing from you, you can probably break it. If the roommate is leasing directly from the landlord, the landlord may be able to break the lease. Do you have a lease? If so, can you break it? If not, leave. If you need professional advice, see if your area has a tenant council which provides free advice based on tenant law.

You shouldn't have to live in unsanitary conditions.

[kenshi]

Does this sentence ever end?

[sywi]

To get actual advice about your situation, you'd have to tell us about the lease situation, as AusParent says. This would be a legal matter, ultimately, not one of opinion, so what legal rights who has are what you have to work with. The owner has the power to get rid of all renters, but is constrained in certain ways by the lease (which usually spells out evictable violations); the renter who holds the lease is more secure and has more rights and authority than someone subletting from the lease-holder.
So if you and your fiance are the leasing parties and the poopy-dog owner is there by your grace and favor, that's a totally different situation than if he's on the lease too; or if he holds the lease and you and your fiance are there by his grace and favor.
In that order of possible scenario, you'd have a) quite a fair amount of power to modify his behavior, as you have contractual rights he doesn't; b) some power, but of the persuasive/reasoning kind, or c) no power; you're in the poop unless you move.
For more detailed advice, you need to provide much more detail on the lease/paperwork/legal arrangements which produced this unhappy household.

[WestTexas238]

Simply call your landlord and report it. They will thank you, because the roomie is destroying their property. Ask them to keep it confidential for your safety. I bet they will show up for a "surprise" inspection.

[debbie_mae]

Let your landlord know in writing. Enclose pictures. Make sure the landlord knows your dog didn't do this, so you don't get blamed for it.