REAL STORY- A HOHO FRIEND FOR A ROOMMATE

Written by Dan the roommate man


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The next day I get a call fromrepparttar hobo. He told me that he can pull off another prank for me, for more money. It was something alongrepparttar 110560 lines of getting a girl he knew to dress like a guy, and then go make out with another girl only to reveal to her that she too is a girl. This dude was wack. So I figured this was my chance to catch this guy and get him to confess to stealing my roomate's camera. I picked him up from ABC liquour store and had my roomate follow my truck close by, just in case this dude decided to pull his knife on me and jimmy shank me. I had also borrowed a tazer from some guy I worked with just in case I had to use it for protection. My hand was gripped on itrepparttar 110561 whole fucking time.

I askedrepparttar 110562 bum about my roomate's camera, to which he gets real defensive and says thatrepparttar 110563 last time he saw it, it was laying byrepparttar 110564 bed. At this point I was like fuck this whole situation, I'm just going to try to get ride of this bum and get back our videotape and just buy my roomate a new camera. That was a hard thing to do though becauserepparttar 110565 bum didn't want to leave my truck. So I tempted him with some beer. I gave him a couple of bucks to go run into a store and buy some beer. As soon as that bastard left my truck I slammed on my gas peddle and gotrepparttar 110566 hell out of there. The next step was to getrepparttar 110567 videotape back, because I didn't want my parents or my roomate's parents knowing about this incident.

I saw a cop onrepparttar 110568 side ofrepparttar 110569 road and asked him about getting some evidence back fromrepparttar 110570 police station. He asked me what it was, and I told him that it was a videotape. He then started to laugh and said you're that kid that put a bum in your roomate's bed. At this point I felt like a real piece of shit. But I eventually gotrepparttar 110571 videotape back. I thought all was fine until a couple of days later I get a call fromrepparttar 110572 hobo again in which he threatened to kill me and says that he does have our camera and wants me to come to him to get it. I just told him to go fuck off (at this point I wasn't scared of this dude anymore, just pissed off) and that I had already bought my roomate a new camera.

To conclude this story I got what I deserved, and I know I'm an asshole and should getrepparttar 110573 shit kicked out of me which all my other friends agreed with, and wanted to kick my assrepparttar 110574 same dayrepparttar 110575 camera was stolen. The moral of all this - don't use real bums to pull pranks on your roomates, get a professional actor instead; you might just save yourself $400.

DAN THE ROOMMATE MAN

WWW.ROOMMATEEXPRESS.COM


HOW SAFE IS YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT?

Written by dan the roommate man


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Robert Irwin, author of The Landlord's Troubleshooter, published by Dearborn, offers some helpful hints: "It is absolutely necessary that you use precise language to describe any exceptions to 'clean and undamaged' that you write down. For example, there may be a mark in a wall caused byrepparttar previous tenant having hit it with a dresser while moving out. If you write down, 'back wall of bedroom is marked,' you could be in for real trouble. When this tenant moves out, that wall could be covered from floor to ceiling with marks and when you protest,repparttar 110559 tenant will point torepparttar 110560 walk-through saying, 'See, you wrote down thatrepparttar 110561 wall was marked!'"

In many cases, you can insist thatrepparttar 110562 landlord makerepparttar 110563 repair before you move in, especially if it is likely to get worse, or put you or others at risk. If you do this before you signrepparttar 110564 lease you will avoid future misunderstandings.

Your landlord could berepparttar 110565 friendliest person inrepparttar 110566 world and turn into a pit bull when it comes time to return your security deposit. So, make sure there isn't a fine print clause in your rental contract that allowsrepparttar 110567 landlord to keep some of your deposit for "cleaning." Again, before you signrepparttar 110568 lease, askrepparttar 110569 landlord to definerepparttar 110570 conditions in writing under which you would get or not get your deposit back.

Also, when your lease is up, plan to haverepparttar 110571 landlord walk throughrepparttar 110572 apartment with you again. Comparerepparttar 110573 apartment torepparttar 110574 pictures taken before and make sure you both agree on everything.

Understanding what you need to do in order to earn your deposit back will go a long way toward parting company with your landlord on good terms, with your security deposit safely back in your pocket.



dan the roommate man

www.roommateexpress.com


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