I am really bad at this whole gopher thing huh. First a month break, and now it's been over 6 months. Hopefully I still remember how to use this and you guys actually see this...

Anyways, theres a lot to catch up on. First, I'm finally free. I no longer live with my parents, I live with my girlfriend and another roomate. We had a 4th, but let me tell you, he is a story in himself. He threw red flags so far around the room that you would think it was a nascar race. It obviously caught everyone elses attention, but we let it slide as this person was going homeless, and we did not want to see him like that. He promised he would get on his feet, be able to do better, and we wanted to help with that. We made sure to set some ground rules however, like how we have to work as a team on chores, desicions should be ran by all of us, and to respect everyone's privacy.

He works a night shift, so he was pretty stingy with his sleep schedule, essentially anything not deemed important by his standard would get you yelled at if you tried waking him up in the morning. Not a huge deal, we had different ideas of "important" but that wasnt a major issue. The issues came when we started cleaning up the place, dont get me wrong, he did a great job getting our living room and everything else sorted (when we got the place, it was a mess due to circumstances, so we had to move in while also clean the entire place, which takes time), however he felt like that gave him power over everyone else. He started complaining that he was spending the most money on the house, when in reality I was, all he paid for was rent, and some grocreies, while we handled everything else. But every time you tried talking to him he would always have this dimenior tone, like he wanted us to know he was in a position of power while we were not. Not a great way to treat your friends who gave you a place to stay w
hen you were going homeless.

It all came crashing down during our first major fight. Essentially he woke up to a circuit blowing in the house. To put it in perspective, he lives inside a shed on our property, with extension cables hooked up to our outside outlets. The outlet he was running under was on the same circuit as my bedroom, so if I ran a heater (since it was still winter when this happened), it blew and his shed would lose power. He asked about this, and I explained to him that the outlet he used was under the same circuit. He laughed at me and said that's not how outside outlets work. My mind is blown at this point, as a firefighter, this is pretty standard stuff you come to learn, you don't need to be an electrician for it. He tried expaining to me that the outlets outside, somehow magically run on the entire house grid's electrical system. After going back and forth with him on this, he started insulting my firefighting knowledge, saying how I should know better, and yet he cannot explain for the life of him why the circuit
 would blow (with my room blowing in the process). But he also did not want to hear my explination because in his head, it was wrong. I ended up calling my fire department buddies, as well as a codes officer for my area, who all sided with me, saying how the guy in question was a complete idiot who had no idea what he was doing. He eventually decided to move his lines to cover more circuits, not just the bedroom, to diversify the load. Not the perfect solution, but neither is living in a shed.

For those wondering why he was in a shead, We live in a trailer, and fitting 3 people in here is enough of a hassle. When he came here, he knew he would be living in the shed, but have access to the house (so he can store food and other things, have a place to eat and hangout, and use the bathroom and shower). Now this isnt fully legal, and we did not know it at the time. More on this later.

Another issue we had with this kid was another fight that happened not to long before this one. Essentially we had our cat litter box in our walk-in pantry, and I figured it would probably be better if we moved it to like, the bathroom. I did not think this would cause such an issue, so I brought it up to the group, ya know, because we are supposed to bring things to the group before making a desision. This man starts yelling on how I have no authority in my own home to dictate how our cats live, and that I am the person with the least power in the house to make any sort of desision. Obviously quite a thing to hear considering we all are supposed to be equal on things, and that no one has "power". It also makes no sense considering me and my girlfriend were the first people to live in this house, then our 3rd roomate, and then him, if anything, me and my girlfriend have the most juristiction over the place.

There were many more, smaller issues that rose with this guy, but to save the details, we wanted him gone, since he wouldnt listen to us, and whenever someone didnt listen to him, he would throw the "you dont have power" card, along with the "I thought we were friends" card. I began using my contacts in the local Codes area to find out that the shed he was living in was not up to code at all, for one, it was way too small, and for 2, tiny homes need an actual heater system, a portable heater does not count. I brought this up to our landlord, as well as the evidince that this guy was a complete dick, to justify this, and our landlord used their lawyer to serve a notice that he needed to be out due to Code issues. And that's where the issue should have ended. It did not.

We had 1 more fight after this. At first he thought it was just a big conicidence, however it quickly spiraled out of control. Roomate #3 sold him a playstation 4 for him to give to his brother for a present, and he said he would pay on a specific day. Well, that day was around the corner, so roomate #3 gave a nice reminder, just letting him know that the date is approaching. And wouldnt you believe it, he sends an entire paragraph explaining how he never agreed to X date (we were in the room when he said it) and that he would pay when he had the money. Roomate #3 didnt really like (the prargraph once again degraded us as having no power, and that he didnt have to pay for anything), so she stood her ground and explained how we were all there when he agreed to X date, and that if he cannot comply with the verbal contract, we would have to take it back. He lashed out at us saying how we were never friends because of this, we only cared about the money, and that we should be thankful he even thought about payin
g us, but now he wont. In the same rant, he talked about how we shouldnt bother reporting to the police or small claims, because they wont do anything (a really bogus escuse, they definietly would have).

Hopefully you get the gist by now, this guy was not a nice person, and we needed him out right away. He talked about fighting codes since "he knew" the shed was legal (he never knew that I had the head of codes explain to me how his living situation was invalid), but how he wasnt going to, because it wasnt worth it. He is now out of the house, but once again, he is managing to cause trouble. Just today, we got a lovely notice on our door when I woke up, on how the codes people were at our house, and that we needed to call X number to figure out what issues they found. I left that to the landlord, but from what I heard, there was an unknown caller who called about the shed in question (the exact shed he lived in) and how someone was living in it. Now no one lives in it now, so it was odd the way it was explained, but what I think, is that he called asking about the shed, trying to fight his innocence, and then the codes officer told him that he was wrong and couldnt live there, and eventually came to investig
ate. This is still an ongoing issue, they have to meet next thursday to talk about a seperate issue they found when investigating regarding someone else who doesnt live with us, just on our property.

I would definietly be that petty person to take him to small claims court or something else considering he wanted to be petty with us to begin with, but he is now out living in his car somewhere, and we have no clue where, nor do we neccisarly care. We cut all ties with him, but we are sure he will try pulling more crap after this one wraps up. And this is just one of the issues we have had during my 6 month hiatus. Ill try to make sure to leave an update after this is all over, but for now, I hope you all take care!

- punchinglikes