Roommate told me that I no longer have access to the washer and dryer. Do I have any recourse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You, a single person, wash clothes two or three times a week?

Seriously. How does a single person dirty so much? I had a roommate like you. She washed her towel and pajamas daily. Sheets 3x a week and the clothes she wore after each use. Our utilities really were sky high because of her. She also didn't want to iron so she put her clothes in the dryer for an hour every morning to un-wrinkle them. It was just ridiculously wasteful. I couldn't stand seeing the washer and dryer run with just a towel and pajama pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you washing clothes so often? I do one load a week and the washing machine isn't even completely full.

Well, your underwear isn’t really clean if you’re not washing in hot water, and neither are your sheets and towels. And if you’re washing everything in hot, you’re probably ruining half your wardrobe.

[Anonymous]

Meh....one load of whites, one load of darks, one load of sheets/towels per week. Easily 2-3.

[Anonymous]

So why didn't you just pay the higher electric you used?

[Anonymous]

I workout. Gym clothes smell if they lay around for days. Same with sheets and towels, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So why didn't you just pay the higher electric you used?

She never asked. She immediately said stop using the laundry room. Plus, how can I get an accurate rate for electricity use?

[Anonymous]

"I'll stop doing laundry when you do. I'm going to keep using it. I'll be out on April 1."

[Anonymous]

Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

[Anonymous]

Your building has laundry facilities. Just use those.

And next time, don't enter into an agreement like this without some thing in writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I workout. Gym clothes smell if they lay around for days. Same with sheets and towels, etc.

Eh. I have one shower towel and wash it once a week, same as my sheet, and it's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

Not insane, trying to understand what a single person is washing two or three times a week. Only people I know who wash that often have children/families. I am single and do laundry once a week. I have my own washer and dryer though and if I had a roommate who had my washer and dryer turning every other day running up my bill I would be annoyed too, though I would have just raised the rent to cover the costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two things.

1) If the washer/dryer is owned by your roommate and not part of apartment and you do not chip in for utilities related to it then stop using it.

2) You are doing excess laundry. If you go to gym several times a week and stink up clothes that need to be washed all the time and since you do gym run through multiple towels you are doing too much laundry. And if you can afford a gym and you think your roommate has financial issues why are you running up the bills and not chipping in.

Most single professional folks have work clothes and a dress shirt they wear to work that is dry cleaner clothes or wear a few times. They wear a pair of PJs a few times. Then they have underwear and some jeans/tshirts and sheets/towel. We are talking at most 2 loads a week. You should at least offered to do extra loads in outside laundry or chipped in on utilities. Plus you never mentioned what happened if machine breaks when you are using it. Are you paying to fix it or buy a new one?

PP and the rest of you analyzing what clothes OP wears and how much she should wash are insane.

Not insane, trying to understand what a single person is washing two or three times a week. Only people I know who wash that often have children/families. I am single and do laundry once a week. I have my own washer and dryer though and if I had a roommate who had my washer and dryer turning every other day running up my bill I would be annoyed too, though I would have just raised the rent to cover the costs.

Op here, your POV is understandable or at least ask for extra money prior to saying that the w/d are off limits. I feel like the situation was taken to the extreme as it was never discussed prior to her making this decision

[Anonymous]

So since no legal agreement, she could change the locks tomorrow and put your stuff on the curb? I would move out tonight. I have had cray cray roommates like this.

[Anonymous]

if you had a verbal agreement that you could use washer and dryer for the flat rate then that is what the agreement is. I would keep using it until you move out but move out asap.