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So I'd like peoples' input. Granted, I think I already know what I'm gonna do here, (just need to finish the phone tag game, and make the final verdict.) But I'm curious, (really, really curious), and would really like to hear what other people would do in this situation. Click the link to read the story and select an answer in the quiz. Humm... I forgot to put an 'other' bubble, though. Ah well, not like there's really a fill in the blank option anyway.
If I did this right the quiz is anonymous, (although I've never made an anonymous one before so I can really only say it should be anonymous).
As to comments in response to this, I considered disabling them, but have decided against. I will certainly answer questions that pertain to the situation to the best of my ability. I will enter into unheated, theoretical, 'philosophical-style' shall we say? debate/discussion on this matter or other matters sparked in anothers' mind by it. I have no intention, however, of responding to anything 'inflammatory' aimed at any member(s) of the scenario, and will delete any such comments made.
Consider if this happened to you:
You are moving out of a house. You have lived in the house for two years. You are down to your last month and are in the process of moving out.
*You still have an assortment of belongings in the room, (including boxes ready to go, items that still need to be boxed/bagged, and aquarium pets).
*You have not cleaned the room yet.
*You still have somewhere in the vicinity of one to two weeks of proper, legal renter-ownership of the room.
You return home[to this soon to be ex-home that is] early-mid afternoon one day, and find the new girl who will be taking over your room moving in. Whatever. Her stuff must be going in a corner of the living room, and she'll be sleeping with the boyfriend in the house until you're gone. You head in to continue clearing out your room. The goal is to finish up this weekend, at which point you'll hand off the key and announce that you're out and she can move in whenever.
You go to your room and discover that she's actually moving *in* in. Your remaining stuff is in a couple piles. Her stuff is appearing in it's own piles. A bed is currently being re-assembled.
You are a wee bit angry. You never agreed to this, and certainly never would have. But -overall anyway- you keep your cool. At least there's no yelling, you don't start calling friends to come help you haul her shit back out, etc. Instead, you figure things can just be compensated for. (Granted, things like getting to do a final sweep of the room to make sure you got everything, and getting the move-out closure and satisfaction of cleaning are obviously just gone).
You take the cost of rent. Divide it by the number of days in the month. Then add up the number of days early she moved in / you were effectively 'evicted'. You request she pay the amount.
Much to your surprise (or not surprise) she refuses. Flat out refuses. She says she owes you nothing. She sites:
*Another member of the house told her it would be all right. (Yes, not you, but another person who lived in the house. Neither she, nor any current residents of the house asked you. If they had, you would've said "No, it's not all right till I finish moving out.")
*She did not actually sleep in the room until the month changed (merely moved her stuff in and started setting up).
*She cleaned the room.
*Further, she sites that -if anything- you should owe her money for the times she cleaned the kitchen before becoming a member of the house. (Keep in mind you never asked her to clean the kitchen, and we'll say at least 95% of the seemingly perpetual kitchen mess was not yours. [I would in fact say significantly less than 5% could be attributed to you but we better allow for a bit extra!])
You bicker and argue about this for awhile, but in the end there's not really anything you can do so you leave it.
Now, flash forward about a year and a half to when she prepares to move out of that place. Your last month there you did not pay rent. She paid that months rent because everyone believed that when the house was moved into everyone paid first and last month (as seems to be the typical affair). But, now it has come to everyones attention that that was not the case. Last months rent was never paid in advance. So... You actually should've paid your last month instead of her.
Now, low and behold, you suddenly receive a polite and vaguely-formal E-mail explaining this situation, and asking that you please double check your records.
And so, you find yourself in a 'unique' situation. It turns out that you actually owe her a months rent. You try to be a good person, and in most circumstances would apologize for the (house-wide made/believed) mistake, and proceed to write her a check (or arrange with her when you would have the funds to do so). However... Considering the circumstances around your moving out and her moving in, (and you may be a bit of a grudge bearer when it comes to having been wronged); and the fact that -you at least feel- she owes you for the 1-2 weeks when you were illegitimately 'evicted'... You find yourself in an interesting situation indeed.
What do you do?
Poll What would you do?
If I did this right the quiz is anonymous, (although I've never made an anonymous one before so I can really only say it should be anonymous).
As to comments in response to this, I considered disabling them, but have decided against. I will certainly answer questions that pertain to the situation to the best of my ability. I will enter into unheated, theoretical, 'philosophical-style' shall we say? debate/discussion on this matter or other matters sparked in anothers' mind by it. I have no intention, however, of responding to anything 'inflammatory' aimed at any member(s) of the scenario, and will delete any such comments made.
Consider if this happened to you:
You are moving out of a house. You have lived in the house for two years. You are down to your last month and are in the process of moving out.
*You still have an assortment of belongings in the room, (including boxes ready to go, items that still need to be boxed/bagged, and aquarium pets).
*You have not cleaned the room yet.
*You still have somewhere in the vicinity of one to two weeks of proper, legal renter-ownership of the room.
You return home[to this soon to be ex-home that is] early-mid afternoon one day, and find the new girl who will be taking over your room moving in. Whatever. Her stuff must be going in a corner of the living room, and she'll be sleeping with the boyfriend in the house until you're gone. You head in to continue clearing out your room. The goal is to finish up this weekend, at which point you'll hand off the key and announce that you're out and she can move in whenever.
You go to your room and discover that she's actually moving *in* in. Your remaining stuff is in a couple piles. Her stuff is appearing in it's own piles. A bed is currently being re-assembled.
You are a wee bit angry. You never agreed to this, and certainly never would have. But -overall anyway- you keep your cool. At least there's no yelling, you don't start calling friends to come help you haul her shit back out, etc. Instead, you figure things can just be compensated for. (Granted, things like getting to do a final sweep of the room to make sure you got everything, and getting the move-out closure and satisfaction of cleaning are obviously just gone).
You take the cost of rent. Divide it by the number of days in the month. Then add up the number of days early she moved in / you were effectively 'evicted'. You request she pay the amount.
Much to your surprise (or not surprise) she refuses. Flat out refuses. She says she owes you nothing. She sites:
*Another member of the house told her it would be all right. (Yes, not you, but another person who lived in the house. Neither she, nor any current residents of the house asked you. If they had, you would've said "No, it's not all right till I finish moving out.")
*She did not actually sleep in the room until the month changed (merely moved her stuff in and started setting up).
*She cleaned the room.
*Further, she sites that -if anything- you should owe her money for the times she cleaned the kitchen before becoming a member of the house. (Keep in mind you never asked her to clean the kitchen, and we'll say at least 95% of the seemingly perpetual kitchen mess was not yours. [I would in fact say significantly less than 5% could be attributed to you but we better allow for a bit extra!])
You bicker and argue about this for awhile, but in the end there's not really anything you can do so you leave it.
Now, flash forward about a year and a half to when she prepares to move out of that place. Your last month there you did not pay rent. She paid that months rent because everyone believed that when the house was moved into everyone paid first and last month (as seems to be the typical affair). But, now it has come to everyones attention that that was not the case. Last months rent was never paid in advance. So... You actually should've paid your last month instead of her.
Now, low and behold, you suddenly receive a polite and vaguely-formal E-mail explaining this situation, and asking that you please double check your records.
And so, you find yourself in a 'unique' situation. It turns out that you actually owe her a months rent. You try to be a good person, and in most circumstances would apologize for the (house-wide made/believed) mistake, and proceed to write her a check (or arrange with her when you would have the funds to do so). However... Considering the circumstances around your moving out and her moving in, (and you may be a bit of a grudge bearer when it comes to having been wronged); and the fact that -you at least feel- she owes you for the 1-2 weeks when you were illegitimately 'evicted'... You find yourself in an interesting situation indeed.
What do you do?
Poll What would you do?