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[quote=Anonymous]Landlord here.  I think you go along to get along until you depart.  Nothing is worse than living in a place where there is a lot of tension and you're scared to leave your stuff or you're worried about retaliation from a roommate.

However, from a landlord perspective, I want to give you some additional advice because you actually do have a leverage point.

My understanding is that you have a verbal agreement to rent a room from your "roommate" and as part of that rental fee you had access to a private room, common areas and the general utilities, including the washer/dryer.  Now your roommate is reneging on your agreement.

You might want to suggest that you both contact the landlord and ask her/his take on the agreement.  She won't want to do that because she is violating the terms of her lease.  This is your pressure point, OP, to maximize your leverage with your "roommate" until you depart on 1 April.  Be careful, though, she could retaliate by locking you out, etc.  Then you would really have some problems because these things escalate rapidly!

All the same, if I were you, I would just do as she wants re the laundry issue.  It isn't worth arguing about it imo.[/quote]

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