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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell her she needs to move out and you will find a new roommate because she clearly can't afford to live where you are living if five or ten extra dollars a month for reasonable heat expenses is too much for her. You aren't talking about keeping temps at 75, 66-68 is very reasonable.

She's probably also a PITA on other expenses. Don't accommodate her ridiculousness. [/quote]

+1.  I had a roommate like this in college who would try to put duct tape over the thermostat in the winter.  She complained about being soooo broke, habing student loans, etc.  Then why was she living in a nice luxury student apartment with pool, etc.

If she can't pay basic utilities, she needs to move elsewhere.  It's not like you're asking her to chip in on HBO or something optional.  And I disagree you should pay more because you're hearing the house while working from home.  It's so much more energy efficient to maintain a reasonable temp like 66-68 degrees than to have the temp drop every morning and then work over time to heat back up in the evenings.[/quote]

+100. I'm in my late 20s and had a roommate like this too in a shared house in DC just out of college. I threw down with her when she started emailing us about charging visiting friends and guests a fee to cover for the extra high heating bills. Even though she would be out of town on work trips and the guest had no direct effect on her at all...and she would ask them for money AFTER they arrived instead of agreeing in advance. Yeah bitch, like having one more person under our roof is gonna send Pepco and the water bill from 120 to 250 a month.

On the other hand, she would let her parents crash in our group house while they visited her from the Midwest. Parents....LIVING in a group house/treating the space like their own home for 5-10 days at a time and cooking, filling our fridge with their groceries and not sharing. Yet she refused to let them pay a dime for to us even though they used utilities  :x  :roll:

Tell her to learn the meaning of compromise or find another place to live ASAP. Then again too many people our age are so coddled they can't comprehend being wrong, respecting normal boundaries before it becomes a problem after the fact or knowing what compromise even looks like.

Good luck![/quote]

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