I’m not 100% sure this belongs here, I’m sorry if it doesn’t. Also, it’s not as racy as a lot of stories here but I thought I’d share. Mobile user disclaimer blah blah blah.

So, a little backstory. My husband and I had been working at a restaurant a couple years ago and we became close friends with a guy let’s name him Raul. I say close friends because he was always at any event we hosted (game nights, beach trips, Friendsgiving, Christmas, was even in our wedding party, etc..) Raul is a 33 year old man, who used to live with a roommate but I’m guessing due to his alcohol and recreational drug use things didn’t work out so he moved in with his parents for a brief time before he got kicked out (should’ve been a red flag that he got kicked out of two living situations in less than a month but I guess hindsight is 20/20) and lived in his car for a week.

My husband and I decided we had a spare room (we don’t have kids but have dogs) and could help out a friend. So we all sat down and said we’d let him stay with us for a week until he figured out another living situation. If he stayed till the end of the month he’d have to pay us rent $300/month for the room, plus whatever our electric bill increased and 1/3 of internet, and pitch in for groceries. We all agreed that was pretty reasonable and he agreed to the terms. Everything was fine for the first month.

After the second month started, Raul started making himself too comfortable. The guest bathroom was not kept up with, when he was home he’d be cooped up in his room (barely went to work), would leave the TV ps3 AND ps4 on when he wasn’t home which would be anywhere from 8 hours to two days this was when he did go to work and then would go binge drinking. We’d come home from our jobs to find the thermostat had been changed from 78 to 70 and then leave the house with the temperature set so low (in Houston Summertime, so it can be really expensive to keep a 1400 sq feet place that cool). When told not to change the thermostat he denied doing it. When asked to turn off all his devices before leaving he said he would and never did. I’d come into the room thinking he was there because the tv was on only to realize it was empty and have to turn everything off myself. Raul was paying about an extra $100 on electric because of this. Our electric bill went from $100/month to about $200-$250/month.

Raul broke a few slats on the guest bed. We saw him do it. Raul Said he’d replace them. Raul would eat our food, use our toiletries and would throw a $20 saying that was his part of groceries. Fine.

One night, Raul came home and told us how he was with a friend and they punched a guy they were buying drugs from. And then changed the story to “nah we just knocked this black guy out. And then took his wallet and phone” Then he tried to see if he could reconfigure the phone to keep it. We told him we wanted that phone out of our house (phones now a days can be found if you know how and we didn’t wanna deal with some random dude coming to get his phone and doing something we’d rather not go through). Then we told him we don’t condone that behavior and we’d like him to move out.

By this point, Raul had been living with us for about 4 months. He’d pay us rent and then electric a couple days later. No big deal. He paid us rent before moving out and promised he’d pay his portion of electric. When he moved into his new living conditions (a coworkers PARENTS’ house) he decided he wasn’t going to pay us the agreed upon surcharge in electric but 1/3 of the total bill which by this point was $250. Said at his new place he pays 1/3 so he should pay 1/3 with us as well and we weren’t being fair. Electric bills always go up in the summer and our bill went up because we have fans running in our room. Yeah buddy, fans don’t increase electric bills by $150, leaving three electronic devices and changing our thermostat for the whole day while we’re at work does.

It has now been three months since Raul moved out, he has refused to pay his part of electric, as well as refuse to pay or replace the bed slats he broke and has started shit talking my husband and myself to the point where a lot of the friends we had at the place we used to work at (we have better jobs now) won’t speak to us. What really makes me upset is that Raul is in a lot of our wedding pictures so it’s now a constant reminder of how shitty he is.