More often than not, we hear about crazy roommate experiences that make us cringe. Nobody likes living with a stranger, and nobody likes living with a roommate who makes them feel the need to sleep with one eye open. We’ve all had one bad experience with a roommate, or at least know someone who did, and it’s stories like these that motivated two young entrepreneurs to try to solve these issues by creating a new roommate finding app called Circle for Roommates. Circle is the first social network for roommate finding, and allows users to see all of their friends who are looking for roommates, and uses the “card swipe” model (similar to Tinder) to ensure that interest is mutual. The app has already launched in New York and Los Angeles, with plans to launch in other big cities very soon.
In order to gain a better understanding of the prevalence of this problem, Circle for Roommates decided to poll their users to find out the worst roommate horror stories that lead them to download the app and start swiping. Here are some of the top horror stories that Circle shared with us!
The Overbearing Roommate
“I was hooking up with this girl that my roommate had a crush on and one night after we hooked up he came into the room drunk, took off his pants and climbed into bed with us”
The Inexperienced Driver
“My roommate asked to borrow my car to go to her friends house. She left out the fact that she didn’t have a license and ended up getting in an accident, totaling the front right side of my car. She told the other driver not to worry about the damage because she didn’t want to get in trouble for driving without a license. It cost me thousands of dollars to fix and she only offered to pay for half of it”
The Borrower
“My roommate would constantly borrow my clothes to go out, insist on washing them before returning them to me and then ‘forget’ to give them back. Every. Single. Time.”
The Crazy Mom
“My roommate Liana and I had a talk when we first moved in together and agreed that we didn’t mind sharing our things with one another. A couple days after settling in, I found a note under my pillow that her mother left for me saying ‘If you touch any of Liana’s stuff again I’m going to to tell management’. Safe to say it was extremely awkward the next day when I met her mother for the first time in person and she said absolutely NOTHING to my face about it”
The Clutz
“One time my idiot, drugged out roommate spilled a bottle of blue gatorade on our carpet 3 times within a span of 10 minutes… and then left without cleaning anything up”
The Morning Person
“I always thought I was a morning person until I had this one roommate that would snooze her alarm 7-10 times every morning before getting up for her 6am water polo practices”
The Mooch
“I used to live with 3 other girls and one of them was a legitimate bum and refused to buy toilet paper for the apartment. When she couldn’t steal from our stash she would just take napkins and paper towels from restaurants and public bathrooms to use. I’d say our toilet was clogged at least once a month because of her”
The Aggressive Roommate
“My first roommate in college was super cool but would get oddly aggressive when she was drunk and would punch me in the arm every time after she cracked a joke. I confronted her about it several times and she would apologize, but it never stopped… I couldn’t figure it out”
The Legitimately Crazy Roommate
“The worst roommate I ever had would sacrifice small animals ritually and decorate her walls with their bones. I decided to move back in with my parents shortly after I figured this out. Moral of the story: don’t use Craigslist to find a roommate”
Circle will be launching soon in Boston so you can avoid having your own stories like these.
Until then, be safe and practice your swiping technique!