Dont think I've ever lived somewhere where someone hasn't tried to fuck me over for money.

This is the latest situation, and one I'll have to deal with tonight..

I just moved out of a shared house and everything was pretty amicable. I've spent a month going over the bills and stuff as although all our names where on the bills everything was coming out of my account. Everything except the internet/phone, which could only be in one persons name. So that name was mine. Basically I was trying to make things as easy as possible for everyone by looking after everything myself. Everyone seemed quite happy with that arrangement, surprise surprise.

Having started a two year contract with BT (boo hisss) in March and then just moved out in late September I'm looking at a £175 cancellation fee, which seems a bit steep!

Is it unreasonable to ask for my house mates to share that? Between four of us its only £44 each and we were all using it. They've offered to pay the bill into my account and keep it going, but it seems a bit silly for me to have a direct debit paying a bill for a service I dont use for a house I dont live in until the end of march 2014. Anything could happen, they could all move out for any reason and then I'll be in this situation again but even less likely to get the cash out of them.

Honestly, what cunts!

I've got a couple of aces up my sleeve but I really dont want to have to resort to blackmail to force them to behave like decent human beings.

Insist they give you the cash for the cancelation fee and specify the exact reasons you gave above. Be insistent.

If they are still being lazy go straight to blackmail and collect £132 and feel better about yourself not giving people a free ride who obviously by the sound of your post can’t be bothered to do things for themselves unless they have to. You don’t have to do them favours, seems like you’ve already been doing that the length of your soon to be terminated co-existence.

Can you not ask BT to transfer the account to one of the remaining housemates as opposed to cancel it altogether?

Well I'm going to meet them tonight, I need to pick up a chair I left behind anyway but I think its better to have to conversation face to face. It'll be harder for them to be cunts in person and trying to have this conversation over email is just going to result in a row that'll get us nowhere..

Especially after the one I got last night where one house mate repeatedly said 'I'm happy for you to cancel the contract and then we'll set up another one' (read, happy for you to pay the whole bill) while reminding me that BT won't hold them responsible for the cancellation charge. At no point did I suggest they would!

Tried that, BT weren't having any of it. I now understand that they are quite famous for exactly this situation.

A lot of utilities and house hold services really aren't geared up to deal with people who rent and switch properties often. They want to lock you in and screw you over and there's nothing to stop them from doing so.

You mentioned a bit of blackmail, how would you go about this though? And are they actual friends?

either transfer / or add someone else on and then take your name off?

or tell BT you are moving and take it to your new address..

dont continue to have the DD going to you on their behalf with them paying you - you'll be liable for anything and everything they run up

At least you don't have to live with them for another year. I caused all kinds of shit with mine yesterday because of one of them having ignorant backwards views and not being capable of listening to reason.

Over the past two weeks I have told him there is hardly any omega 3 in tinned tuna, cold germs are not airborne but caught via touch and then last night he tried telling me that all drugs are the same as heroin because they fuck you up. Madness. Literally an idiot. He refused to look at documents of all three cases when I said I would sit down and show him. >.<

There are more people in the house than there should be and I'm sure the land lord / council would like to know about it. That certainly would be money they were legally obliged to pay. Really don't want to go there though. No I don't really consider them friends, things were OK while I was living there but the way they were in the run up to me leaving and now, they certainly aren't.

Basically its like we were being polite to each other, but no there's no need.. its just a who can come out having paid the least competition.

I really really fucking hate penny pinchers.


BT actually suggested that I add another person to the account, make the bills come from their bank but get the statements sent to my email so I can keep track of it. Although the money wouldn't be coming out of my account I would be ultimately responsible for it and I assume that the second person would be able to withdraw his consent to having the paying account. I actually can't take my name off it at all.. which is retarded.

A plan was to get it in one house mates name, the cash coming from him, and then cancel it so they're lumped with with fine. But he could just remove himself and it would be back in my lap.

Sounds like a riveting house to live in mate.

I've really had it with living with randoms. Its unavoidable when needs must but I'm so sick of the passive aggressive atmosphere and dealing with people who I just don't properly click with. It just amazes me though, how often I've had to deal with people being awkward about money. I would rather just not think about it, split everything as evenly as possible and move on with my life.. but thats why I always end up getting shafted.

Well not this time, fuckos!

Threaten them with a very large stick. A baseball bat maybe?

Its very very tempting, Dom

Exactly!

Yeah but mate, aren't they fit lesbians?

No, all the lesbians moved out some time ago.

One of them was quite fit but the other not so much, you are what you eat as they say, and in this case that proves to be a tight cunt!

Living with four lesbians is good on paper, in reality its just living with four girls. I like to think of that time as 'the silent war'

They rigged the toilet seat so that it wouldn't stay up without being held, it was impossible to leave it up, I must have pissed litres on your floor trying to do the one hand on the seat one hand on the cock trick.

Oh fuck them off then.


I'd have done the two that looked the same but montied.