I have a roommate, we'll call her stovetop seeing as how she has tried to gaslight me so many times since living here. In the 4 months that stovetop has lived here, she has taken out the recycling a total of 2 times, washed dishes 1 time, claims to have cleaned the toilet once, but definitely has not. This morning, I had to dig out of the compost bin for the 4th-5th time, plastic bags with rotten food in them because stovetop is too baked to remember to take the fruit and veggies out of the bag, before it goes into the compost. I brought it up to stovetop, and stovetop claims she only put the bag in there once (so if she knew it was in there, why didn't she take it out?). Never at any time, has stovetop vacuumed, mopped, taken out the compost or any other chore that needs to be done around here. We also share things like toilet paper, trash bags, dish soap and common household things like that, never have I met someone so cheap, as to buy 1 ply toilet paper and in the smallest package available when the rest of us buy the good shit and in 12 packs or greater. Nevermind the fact that stovetop often leaves food wrappers and spills on the counters in the kitchen every time they cook and never cleans it up, as an aspiring chef, my kitchen is my safe place.

I understand having depression, I have it myself, as well as PTSD, OCD and anxiety. I also smoke cannabis. I do not let these things deter me from being a responsible adult when I have to be, so she really has no excuse for this, especially when it's been discussed and denied by her that it's even happening until I bring up proof to her, and then her words all of the sudden change. I don't want to live with someone like this, and my other roommate doesn't either. Our landlord lives in the same building, I've been here the longest and all I have to do is give the word to my landlord and he'll give the notice because I have been a very loyal tenant since the beginning and this isn't the 1st time we've dealt with people like this living here. However, I really want to know the legality of it all, because eventually, someone is going to attempt to fight it and I want to know if that's even possible.

How have you all dealt with having shitty roommates? I seem to be having bad luck with people moving in, and then they don't contribute anything to the household.