sooooooooooooo angry!!!!

[Binky]

Now I excuse me if I go a little over board here, but I just discovered this, and I'm so angry about it that I'm physically shaking! As I;m sure you would be if this same hting happened to you!

Ok, so I moved out of a place...and I had my name on majority of the bills, the electricity, the gass, and the internet. Now that was stupid, but the house mate I was living with had a VERY bad credit rating (warning sirens going off here??) and was close to being declared bankrupt...well so that meant that I needed to put everything (bar the phone) in my name...anyways...thiings got a little out of hand and I ended up leaving..and it was hell! the house mate demanded money of me for rent (that I didn't owe) and then demanded money off me for bills (which I had already paid for (my share anyways)..of corse I never paid up and refused to so so no matter what...I took everything out of my name and put it into theirs...BUT it wasn't over....one of the accounts had an outstanding bill on it, BECAUSE my house mate had taken money out of the account we shared (can you see all my VERY big mistakes here???) for her own use...SO the bill bounced when they went to take out the money...also, when I took my name off they said they had to do another reading and send out another bill...ok ....SO...I leave..and the house mate says that she will pay the bills as she was the reason that they were not paid in the first place....2 weeks later however...I get a letter saying they were not paid..I call she says ok..and then ONE of the bills gets paid...ONE! thats a key point here..she paid one of the bills and left the other...NOW...a couple more weeks and I get another bill stating that the last bill I recieved was never paid, and to please pay ASAP...ok..I ring the housemate, I tell her this..she tells me ok I'll pay it...a full month goes by...I hear nothing..I assume that the bill is paid...NO I get a letter TODAY (I've moved out of home agian so I didn't get the bill till the weekend) stating from a COLLECTION AGENCY that they are demanding payment of this bill NOW and that blah blah blha I'm sure some people know the drill...now I have payed this bill because I didn't think if I waited around...that it would get paid...

I am sooooo angry, because 1: I got myself into a STUPID situation, where by I had my name on all the bills...

2: I took up residence with a finacial retard!

3: I know I have no legal right to demand the money for the bill I HAD TO PAY in the end because my name was ON the contract/bill and they have no record of her...so if the bill is not paid I GO DOWN!

I'm soooo angry! SOOOOOO ANGRY! I hate this, I wish there was some way for me to get the money! But I know there isn't and I just have to take this one on the chin....

anyone have the same thing happen to them? Do tell..I would like to know I'm not the only nieve one out there

[One-Fang]

Hey that sucks, but at least you're taking it "like a man". You're aware it was your own silly fault.

I commiserate. Perhaps you can continue to chase up ex-roommate? Although, perhaps the amount of the bill is not worth the hassle and stress.

[Broomjockey]

I had a similar situation when I moved in December last year.

My roommate and I had been friends since we were kids. He wanted to move in with his girlfriend/fiance. That was fine. He managed to find a new place first. This is where things go south. He moves out his stuff in a huge hurry, manages to take a couple of my things, takes things I asked him to leave because I needed them and would bring them to him later, and leaves all his garbage, plus a lot of my stuff is in disarray because he moved it around so he could move.
I called him and let him know in no uncertain terms that I did not appriciate the mess he left behind, and when I moved out he would have to come back and help me clean. He agreed to that. The place was a 3 bedroom townhouse, so we'd had other roommates besides us, and they all left garbage behind as well. My roommate was paying all the bills even though they were in my name because the rent was on automatic withdrawl from his account, and it was easier for everyone to just give him money than to figure out who gets how much. I gave him half of my share for the last month to put towards the bills.

I later ask him when he's coming over to help clean the place.
:eek: :confused: What do you mean? I don't have time for that! I've got to watch my gf's kid and work as well!
I remind him I'm in the process of moving, and I have to work as well.
He insists he cannot do it. I tell him I'm not paying him the rest of what I owe him, and he agrees, a little too easily.

So my mother (who lives a city away from me, had to take days off work, and come in after work on days she couldn't get off) and I have to clean a 3 bedroom townhouse by ourselves in 3 days, in addition to moving my stuff halfway across town, and still working on the other side of town. This place was nasty. There was LITERALLY a dumpster's worth of garbage, plus 2 half-ton trucks worth of stuff we needed to haul to the dump directly. Then we tried to actually clean some stuff. By the time we had all the garbage cleared out, we said screw it, and gave it a spit and a swipe.

All done, right? Wrong. One of the other roommates had put a hole in the linoleum, and coupled with everything else, we were about $200 over on the damage deposit. The roommate had given the money to pay to my ex-friend. Also, we recieve a past-due notice on one of the bills that e-f was supposed to pay (from before he moved). We hassle him (rather mom did, I was in a spiral of depression from the betryal by one of my oldest friends) and finally contact his dad to make e-f pay the past-due bill, and the damage deposit, and we took take of the other stuff.
I don't give two craps about the guy anymore, but apparently he still hates me for getting mad at him. I saw him with his gf and her kid on the bus the other day, and was ignoring him completely. I mean I looked in his direction ONCE, then never looked around again, yet when he noticed me, he got off on the next stop, confusing the heck out of his gf who almost didn't get off the bus in time before it started to pull away. :lol:

[Trishlovesdolphins]

sounds like your only option is to sue

[Binky]

I wish I could, but the only real thing that I can do is try and get it removed from my record, OR have it on record what happened...and there for when I go for a loan...then they will see that it wasn't my fault...the good thing is..I've heard (from some reliable sources) that my ex-house mate has not paid a few bills with her own name on it..and now she looks to risk getting her own black mark...petty I know...but I'm glad she is getting a taste of how it feels!