What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? New York (Manhattan)
Currently there are 3 people on our lease, my boyfriend, roommate and I but for months now we have had to deal with an unwanted 4th roomate.
Here are the issues:
My roommate's gf for at least 4 months now spends on average 3 to 4 nights at our apartment and has even been in the apartment without our roommate there.
They come in at all hours of the night and generally have loud sex that can be heard through the use of headphones. I have complained more than once about this to our roommate.
The girlfriend takes showers and cooks at our place and does not pay at all.
My boyfriend and I finally had a sit down with our roommate and explained to her that it is not fair of them to take advantage of us. We're basically paying for a 4th roommate. Our roommate became defensive saying she has "bent over backwards" trying to make our living situation better and is amazed that it look us so long to say anything and that now we are asking her to start paying for this extra roommate that now lives in our apartment. She angrily said she would no longer have the girlfriend over, to which we said, weekends are fine, so long as she's at the apartment no more than 3 days during the week and that the girlfriend shouldn't be around when she isn't home.
That was almost two weeks ago and since then the girlfriend has been over 4 times this week and was over 3 times last week.
What are our options? I want our roommate to start paying half of the rent and paying more for utilities? Is that possible?
Also, is there any way that legally we can tell her she can't have this person over so much? Or can we speak to the landlord and get this roommate and mooch kicked out?
Currently there are 3 people on our lease, my boyfriend, roommate and I but for months now we have had to deal with an unwanted 4th roomate.
Here are the issues:
My roommate's gf for at least 4 months now spends on average 3 to 4 nights at our apartment and has even been in the apartment without our roommate there.
They come in at all hours of the night and generally have loud sex that can be heard through the use of headphones. I have complained more than once about this to our roommate.
The girlfriend takes showers and cooks at our place and does not pay at all.
My boyfriend and I finally had a sit down with our roommate and explained to her that it is not fair of them to take advantage of us. We're basically paying for a 4th roommate. Our roommate became defensive saying she has "bent over backwards" trying to make our living situation better and is amazed that it look us so long to say anything and that now we are asking her to start paying for this extra roommate that now lives in our apartment. She angrily said she would no longer have the girlfriend over, to which we said, weekends are fine, so long as she's at the apartment no more than 3 days during the week and that the girlfriend shouldn't be around when she isn't home.
That was almost two weeks ago and since then the girlfriend has been over 4 times this week and was over 3 times last week.
What are our options? I want our roommate to start paying half of the rent and paying more for utilities? Is that possible?
Also, is there any way that legally we can tell her she can't have this person over so much? Or can we speak to the landlord and get this roommate and mooch kicked out?
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