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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Somebody pardon me because I don’t know. Is there a new reset every semester? If so then the window bed is up for grabs. [b]Either way I think the bed is up for grabs since she moved out. Flip a coin for it.[/b][/quote]

Former RA here, and I agree with this completely. Flip for it, or bargain for it.  Nothing is free. [/quote]

“Nothing is free” if you live in a dog eat dog world.

Setting a generous tone might start this new relationship off on the right foot .[/quote]

I suppose - but if the room mate ends up being a taker, OP's DC does not want to have to find out the hard way.  Takers depend on other people being nicer than them. [/quote]

OP's DC was already judging this person she doesn't know as a friendless loser based on trawling her Instagram account, before she got an email.  I don't think the she's in any danger of being too nice.[/quote]

NP.  Based on what’s been shared here, I disagree.  OP’s DD was the recipient of an email that raises at least some questions.  Normally an introductory email from a roomie would be friendly - why the businesslike tone?  Why start the relationship by asking for something of value and not offering one darn thing, including friendship, in return?  Maybe this is a case of poor email etiquette.  But at the end of the day, the DD is rightfully wondering “who is this person that I have to share my personal space with?“  [b]I would check it out too.[/b]  The DD sounds intelligent enough to draw some conclusions based on it.  Roommate’s move to prove her wrong.  [/quote]

She didn't check it out because she got the email.  She already had trawled her Insta and decided she had "an obsessive personality and a life void of friendships" because she didn't have enough group photos.  [i]Then [/i]she got the email.  Then she told her mom that the email "further raises her concerns" about being assigned this girl as a roommate.  This is all straight from her mom in this thread.[/quote]

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