This is going to be a long one. Ok so I started in a 2 bedroom shared the girl in my room dropped out so I had a room to myself. Then my other roommate’s roommate dropped out. Flash forward a month or so later, I get a knock on my door from res-life and my director asked me if I mind switching rooms over. There where 2 girls wanting to move on campus from the off campus apartments the school owns. I agreed only because the girls wanted to stay together and I was being nice about because ,y room was the only room with two empty beds. So I move my things to room a (the smaller room of the 2 rooms) only the girls never moved in. I move at the end of October, November came and still have not moved in. I went to the other directors office because the one in mine doesn’t do anything and is useless. He told me that the girls wanted a 2 bedroom private dorm. There are only shared rooms available. A week went by and the girls finally come over to see the room and get the keys. The custodian came and deep cleaned the room I was in to get it ready and nothing. The girls were supposed to move in that weekend and nothing happened. No one moved in. They now have a key to my room and their dorm. They can also access both buildings. I requested a room change just for the fact that I refuse to live with people who don’t respect my time and space. I have yet to get a new room and those girls have to move in come January when school starts back up again. What are my options, if I don’t get a room change. It’s my directors fault that she didn’t force those girls to move. It’s also her fault that I’m out of the bigger bedroom when clear they had no intention of moving. Res-life basically violated my rights to fair housing. If those girls weren’t going to move why didn’t they give me my room back? I need that space and I could be as loud as I could ba use it faced the laundry room wall. People keep telling me to contact a lawyer to force the school to change my room but I’m not sure if I could actually do that. What to y’all think?
I don’t see any violation of rights. You agreed to move rooms and you moved rooms. Don’t spend your time and energy worrying about what keys other people have or when they will move in.
Go study. Finals are here.
You are paying for a single bed in a dorm. If you move back to the big room, you’ll have to share again. I’d much rather have the smaller single.
If the girls are going to move in in January, they’ll need the keys. If they aren’t going to move in, have them change the locks. Can’t that be done electronically?
I don’t understand why you think your rights were violated. You are getting what you paid for and contracted for. The other room may have been nicer, but that doesn’t mean that you gave a right to it.
It’s a shared room. I was in a room by myself since my roommate was stupid enough to drop out after month of classes. Finals are over thank you very much. I have done well by the way. It’s a matter of principle. If I’m moving to accommodate people that don’t want to share a room them give me my room back. There are housing rule for that. I was asking if I can force the school to switch my room to a private since it’s there fault anyway. I wouldn’t wasting precious studying time worrying about housing if I had finals going on.
This is useless. I will talk to my mom about she can easily get me moved by calling the schools preident.
You started this thread looking for advice. The advice wasn’t what you wanted to hear. Go complain to mom.
“I refuse to live with people who don’t respect my time and space.”
the cri de coeur of everybody who has ever shared housing. Truly, the only solution is to get Mom to get you your own apartment.
There are people who post here not for advice, but for validation. This time, it is not being offered. Maybe a different site will tell OP what she wants to hear.