I really feel like nuking my new housemate from orbit, punching him in the ovaries and kicking him in the head with a tornado kick.
To make it brief, we had a new housemate moved into our shared house of 6, 2 weeks ago. He is a rather big fellow with clearly some hygiene issues and is the only smoker in the house. Our house have no smoking labels everywhere apart from the kitchen, he however tore off the label in the living room but we didn't complain as we are willing to take allow him some space to smoke, apart from his room (which is the smallest in the house - his rent reflects the size so doesn't matter)
Anyway, since he's moved in, everytime he finish using the toilet for number 2, there is always crap on the ****ing seat. Not just a one off occasion. So I left a printed note just outside the toilet with a bottle of bleach, a packet of antibacteria toilet wipe and a bottle of air freshener. Everyone else in the house have used it apart from him.
2 Nights ago, there was an argument in the house, started by the girl's boyfriend who was living upstairs with her - he went into a mood swing (for reasons not clearly known by us yet) and he "kicked" a rather sizeable hole through the partition wall in the toilet and there was a few loud door bangs (both from this room and the front door). It was so loud enough to annoy our new housemate - whom for the day, have been playing music terribly loudly with his door ajar.
He then came out swearing and shouting down the gangway at "who's banging the ***ing doors!" for about 5 mins at almost 1am in the morning.
With all these noise and issues, I decided to take matters into my own hands and wrote a note to every housemate in the house, calling for a little meeting in the house at 8pm - just to clear up some issues and let everyone share their issues in the house and hopefully, able to live in harmony.
2 of the house mates couldn't make it and text me - one was at work and the other was at night class, but have left message and issues to bring up to me and another housemate.
Come 8pm, everyone was there but the new housemate. He was still in his room. So I went up and politely asked him if he was free to join us. (He's the only person over the age of 25 in the house, AFAIK, he's 48) He sat there in his bed in his underwear, claiming he has been the model citizen in the house - pointing out everything he's "done right" by going through my note's Meeting Agenda. At that point I though, fair enough, if he wants to be a self centred jerk of the house then so be it.
He then claimed he's lodged a complain to the landlord about the hole in the wall and that he will be sending his "boys" to take that boy who kicked the wall in away. The point of the meeting was to bring the issues out and get sorted but obviously it won't work with his being a jerk.
I left and started the meeting without him. We cleared some issues with our kitchen hygiene, toilet hygiene (even though it's mainly aimed towards the new housemate) and the noise level in the house after 22:00. Everyone came to an agreement and will, over the next week act on it and see if it'll make things for the better.
I thought it was only right to pass on what was discussed to the new housemate, he wasn't having any of it and claimed that because of the doors banging last night, his "23 inc LCD TV fell on the floor and the screen split", now he couldn't get it refunded as Argos apparently rejected his claim.
At this point I thought to myself, what a mofo! The point of the meeting was to clear up issues and bringing up things like that and now he's making the claim at me and at one point of the conversation, arrogantly asked "who are you? The landlord? I don't interfere with your life, why do you interfere?" - in my mind I really felt like going right up to him and spin a kick to his ****ing head but he was that unhygienic, I didn't want flakes of his crap on my bare foot.
The landlord's handy man did come in last night, spoke to the boy and he's on his last chance before he is booted out. He will also be footing the bills for repairs and he's also apologised to everyone in the meeting about noise levels and his mood swings.
I was really really angry last night after the incident, the meeting and the conversation with the new housemate. I'm sorry I'm ranting here with essentially, an essay on a forum.
However, what would you guys say to this situation? Have I done the right thing to intervene and try to get the situations cleared up among everyone in the house or should I have just left my head down, get on with it and continue wiping crap off the toilet seats every morning after that jerk has his crap?
*He claimed what's the point of the wipes, he's asked the landlord for a toilet brush. WTF has the toilet brush got to do with crap on the actual toilet seat?!
/rant.
To make it brief, we had a new housemate moved into our shared house of 6, 2 weeks ago. He is a rather big fellow with clearly some hygiene issues and is the only smoker in the house. Our house have no smoking labels everywhere apart from the kitchen, he however tore off the label in the living room but we didn't complain as we are willing to take allow him some space to smoke, apart from his room (which is the smallest in the house - his rent reflects the size so doesn't matter)
Anyway, since he's moved in, everytime he finish using the toilet for number 2, there is always crap on the ****ing seat. Not just a one off occasion. So I left a printed note just outside the toilet with a bottle of bleach, a packet of antibacteria toilet wipe and a bottle of air freshener. Everyone else in the house have used it apart from him.
2 Nights ago, there was an argument in the house, started by the girl's boyfriend who was living upstairs with her - he went into a mood swing (for reasons not clearly known by us yet) and he "kicked" a rather sizeable hole through the partition wall in the toilet and there was a few loud door bangs (both from this room and the front door). It was so loud enough to annoy our new housemate - whom for the day, have been playing music terribly loudly with his door ajar.
He then came out swearing and shouting down the gangway at "who's banging the ***ing doors!" for about 5 mins at almost 1am in the morning.
With all these noise and issues, I decided to take matters into my own hands and wrote a note to every housemate in the house, calling for a little meeting in the house at 8pm - just to clear up some issues and let everyone share their issues in the house and hopefully, able to live in harmony.
2 of the house mates couldn't make it and text me - one was at work and the other was at night class, but have left message and issues to bring up to me and another housemate.
Come 8pm, everyone was there but the new housemate. He was still in his room. So I went up and politely asked him if he was free to join us. (He's the only person over the age of 25 in the house, AFAIK, he's 48) He sat there in his bed in his underwear, claiming he has been the model citizen in the house - pointing out everything he's "done right" by going through my note's Meeting Agenda. At that point I though, fair enough, if he wants to be a self centred jerk of the house then so be it.
He then claimed he's lodged a complain to the landlord about the hole in the wall and that he will be sending his "boys" to take that boy who kicked the wall in away. The point of the meeting was to bring the issues out and get sorted but obviously it won't work with his being a jerk.
I left and started the meeting without him. We cleared some issues with our kitchen hygiene, toilet hygiene (even though it's mainly aimed towards the new housemate) and the noise level in the house after 22:00. Everyone came to an agreement and will, over the next week act on it and see if it'll make things for the better.
I thought it was only right to pass on what was discussed to the new housemate, he wasn't having any of it and claimed that because of the doors banging last night, his "23 inc LCD TV fell on the floor and the screen split", now he couldn't get it refunded as Argos apparently rejected his claim.
At this point I thought to myself, what a mofo! The point of the meeting was to clear up issues and bringing up things like that and now he's making the claim at me and at one point of the conversation, arrogantly asked "who are you? The landlord? I don't interfere with your life, why do you interfere?" - in my mind I really felt like going right up to him and spin a kick to his ****ing head but he was that unhygienic, I didn't want flakes of his crap on my bare foot.
The landlord's handy man did come in last night, spoke to the boy and he's on his last chance before he is booted out. He will also be footing the bills for repairs and he's also apologised to everyone in the meeting about noise levels and his mood swings.
I was really really angry last night after the incident, the meeting and the conversation with the new housemate. I'm sorry I'm ranting here with essentially, an essay on a forum.
However, what would you guys say to this situation? Have I done the right thing to intervene and try to get the situations cleared up among everyone in the house or should I have just left my head down, get on with it and continue wiping crap off the toilet seats every morning after that jerk has his crap?
*He claimed what's the point of the wipes, he's asked the landlord for a toilet brush. WTF has the toilet brush got to do with crap on the actual toilet seat?!
/rant.
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