If you live with someone who you’re not necessarily really friends with, there should ideally be some unspoken rules.

Be courteous, be clean…and don’t rent out the living room so strangers can study there without telling your roommate.

Wait, what?!?!

Yes, friends, the woman who wrote this story is dealing with a roommate who actually did that, and she wasn’t about to stand for it!

Check out what went down.

AITA for reporting my roommate to our landlord after she turned our living room into a paid study space?

“Me (25F) and my roommate (24F) have been living together in a 2-bedroom apartment for about a year. Not really friends, just two people splitting rent who get along fine.

It started innocently.

She asked if a few classmates could study in the living room sometimes, I said sure, I’m never home in the evenings anyway.

But it didn’t stay “a few classmates.”

Hmmm…

At some point, and I honestly couldn’t tell you exactly when, it just became a fixed thing. I’d get home from uni/work and there’d already be people on my couch with their laptops open and bags all over the floor.

There were literally moments where I stood outside of my door hesitating before going in, which is kind of insane to thinking about now.

So I said something to her. Told her it was getting to be too much, that she needed to check with me first.

She said sorry, and actually kept it smaller for about a week.

Well, what do you know…?

Then it just slid right back to normal like that conversation never happened. Except now people weren’t even asking her anymore, they’d just show up, sometimes before she was even home from class herself.

Then came the day that really broke it for me. I got home early and walked straight into a full session, like eight people, snacks laid out, someone had a speaker blasting.

I asked one girl what was going on and she goes, super casual, “oh it’s (my roommates name)’s study group, it’s five euros for each session.”

Wow!

That was the actual first time I’d heard anything about money.

I confronted her that night and expected her to at least get why I was upset, but nope. Completely unbothered.

Said she’s not “really” profiting, just covering coffee/printing/snacks and that it helps her rent, and that I barely use the living room during those hours anyway so what’s the big deal as long as it’s not left trashed.

But that was never the point.

Here’s the point…

She’d built this whole organized, paid thing in OUR shared space without ever asking me if i’m okay with it, and somehow I’d become a guest in my own apartment.

In that same conversation I told her to stop, she agreed and said she would. But then it just started up again. Smaller, but still clearly organized. And then I actually saw people paying her through their phones, right there in our living room.

That’s when it stopped feeling like a misunderstanding.

Told her again, full stop, not smaller.

She said she’d break it down after the exam season because she’d already told everyone.

She finally had enough of this!

So I emailed the landlord. I explained everything and that the living room was being used regularly for paid study sessions without my consent.

After that it all happened pretty fast, she got a breach notice and was out within like two weeks.

People have mixed reactions when I tell them this story. Some say I did the right thing, she had three chances and blew all of them. Others say I overreacted, nobody got hurt, it’s not like she was throwing big parties, and I wasn’t even home most of the time anyway.

Still don’t know honestly. I want to know your opinions on this one. AITA?”

Here’s what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person weighed in.

Another Reddit user shared their thoughts.

This individual said she’s NTA.

Another individual weighed in.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a couple who is sick and tired of their neighbor’s kids dumping trash on their patio.

And this person made a good point.

Wow….that’s crazy!

And I’ve never heard a story quite like this one before.

There was some seriously shady business going on in this apartment!

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