Who owes who what?

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<p>Me and my roommate (who I do consider a friend, but not a close one) have lived in an apartment for a year now and we are moving out. About 4 months ago, I broke his guitar (by just playing it, it was a fragile thing). I didn't have a job at the time to get the $100 dollars he demanded for the guitar replacement. However, he has played mine instead meanwhile and was treating it like crap sorta... And his guitar is worth only $80 used online (which he didn't want)...anyways I digress.</p>

<pre><code> So I finally got a job a month ago. My roommate however, has been dodging our internet bill, in which I paid 3 months in a row.
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<li><p>The 1st month he dodged the bill he said he wasn't in town and that he shouldn't have to pay for it...</p></li>
<li><p>The 2nd month he asked me if I could give him an incentive since I decided to share my room with someone just for one month (although I pay the PGE bill, so nothing is coming out of his pocket)... so I payed it.</p></li>
<li><p>For our final month, he said he was broke and couldn't pay for it now. So i paid about $80 worth of Comcast bills already.</p></li>
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<p>On top of that, HIS personal toilet broke and we called our landlord in which they sent a plumber to see whats up. The plumber didn't fix the problem and charged us $110 for tenant causation (which is completely untrue). So now on top of that I'm getting $55 most likely removed from my deposit because of HIS toilet (we have our own bathrooms and I don't use his nor do my guests). </p>

<p>So now I payed about $135 for all his stuff and on top of that he is now asking me to pay him $75 dollars still before we move out. I have to say this is the most annoying thing, because I feel like he isn't really thinking about all the charges that I have gone through for him and that he is being selfish. I just told him about these charges and he didn't say anything about it or lowering the money he wants me to pay him.</p>

<p>Don't get me wrong me and my roommate like each other, but I don't see him as a close friend for obvious reasons (such as this issue). I believe if he was a good friend he would say I don't owe him anything since I payed more than I should already for his guitar (like payment+ interest). I know that I should have just gone about by saving money and paying him straight up the amount he asked all at once, but since he was flaky about the Comcast payments I wasn't really able to do that. </p>

<p>Who is in the right and who is in the wrong?</p>

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<p>What the…</p>

<p>You don’t owe this dude a thing besides a new guitar, but it seems as if you’ve already paid for it through bills. Get a new roommate.</p>

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<p>Hoping to get different opinions than you did when writing about these issues back in June? If he broke his guitar, you need to pay for it. Co-signing a lease is like co-signing a loan or any other contract: unfortunately, his damages are considered to be part of your responsibility, so you are pretty much stuck.</p>

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<p>@KKmama</p>

<p>Hi, yes I was hoping to get different opinions due to the fact that the situation has changed… I now have payed him more than enough to compensate for his guitar ($135 to $100). If he didn’t freeload of me, I could have easily paid him back all at once for his guitar and replace it. If we are gonna go with the route of damages and responsibility, I didn’t sign anything that I have to replace his guitar… So I don’t really understand what you’re getting at. I’m just trying to still be on good terms with my now ex-roommate, without having to make a hole in my pocket…</p>

<p>But I guess their is no way to have that happen and most likely this issue will distance our friendship apart. I’m sorry if I’m interpreting your message wrong, but it seems quite condescending and snobbish. What is so wrong for me to follow up on a issue that has developed to even a larger matter.</p>

<p>Are you saying that I should still pay him the full amount for the guitar, although he just scammed me out of ($80) + ($55, if you want to include the plumber he brought in, which I didn’t approve of).</p>

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<p>ty CalDude for being the only one to make sense of this situation so far. I’m using this site as a moral compass for this situation, not stalker college mom users reading up on old threads and telling me without any logic why I should still pay him for his guitar.</p>

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<p>this is why you’d have to put a gun to my head to make me sign a shared lease</p>

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<p>its sounds like you payed for more than enough. id tell him he owes you.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t give him anything. It’s obvious that you paid your share already.</p>