Need your advice, weedguru...

[Weedguru_Falkon]

So the apartment i'm living in is a two bedroom place, with my lease not being up until december. My former roommate is in the army and is being shipped out at the beginning of august, 4 month before the end of the lease. I need someone to replace him, so I turned to one of my good friends.

I really like the guy, but he's always kind of had money issues. He, for some reason I will never know, keeps trying to get these door to door sales jobs that ALWAYS end up failing on him, or trying those pyramid scheme deals that, again, always fail. I see why hes interested in them, i guess, becuase you have like a 3-5% chance of actually becoming rich, but thats a terrible odd. Anyway, so his last legitimate job was back in high school, and since hes just been doing those door to doors and its been so bad that he got evicted from his last place a month or so ago, so now hes here til my current roommate leaves.

Basically my situation is this: I have no one else to turn to to fill that empty room and help pay the other half of rent (which I cannot do on my own), but... he can't seem to get a legitimate job. He had about two months of rent saved up, but as soon as he did hes started buying a bunch of shit that I don't think he needs until hes financially secure.

furthermore, he has an outstanding warrant from california when he failed to appear in court for some traffic violation.

What should I do? I'm really nervous he won't be able to come through with rent, but hes a good friend and I have no one else to turn to... I'm locked into the lease til december, so if he fails to get rent, its pretty much all on me, then i'll be doomed

[andriaSRH]

Sounds the beginning of a movie where your quirky roomie ruins your entire life, then redeems himself at the end.

Um..my advice is find a legit roomie on craigslist.

If the guy has a history of being unrealiable, don't chance it.

[Weedguru_Falkon]

The problem is that he has literally NO other place to go. His only family is his dad who is permanently moving to Costa Rica next week and htey don't even talk. So its here or on the street... He wants things to work out, but i dunno I can't just throw one of my good friends onto the street.

[andriaSRH]

O I see. I suppose just let him crash at your place until he gets back on his feet.

Do you have enough room for another roomie that will actually pay rent?

[Weedguru_Falkon]

Kinda. Right now my old roommates stuff is in the other bedroom, so my friend is just crashing on the sofa for now. It would suck having to stay there the entire time i think. He has no personal space, just the floor where he keeps his clothes and a few things

[andriaSRH]

You should definately at least try and have a conversation with him about getting a steady paying job. If it's your place or the streets he is going to have to start acting like an adult pretty soon, ya know.

[cutthecashflow]

Give him a chance man, but let him know that if he doesnt have the rent for you when its time to pay then he will be forced to leave. Sucks about the outstanding warrant as you really can't make him to sign a lease in fear of the cops finding his location. The only problem I see is with the outstanding warrant, if they decided to extradite him back to California you would have a lot of cops in your place and there might be something there that you wouldn't want them to see. I doubt they would over traffic violations, but you never know...

My roomate is on probation and our house has been raided two times in the last three months, simply becasue they have the autority to come over here and search whenever they please. I got into a huge arguement with them the last time they were here about digging through my room, because I'm not the one on probation. Anyway they told me legally they can open the door and walk into my room, but they are not supposed to snoop through my stuff. Thing is I don't trust these fuckers with a ten foot stick if I'm not at home they will probably search through whatever they want (as they did the first time).

Back on topic though, I'd say give him a chance, but make sure all of your illegals are packed away and out of sight, just in case the cops feel like coming to get him. Oh and tell him to find a real job, or at least something else part time that will guarentee that he can cover the rent.

[logically]

I don't know man... i had some pretty tense moments with darkstar when i let him live with me...

he wasn't exactly reliable either....

[Bubbles]

The problem is that he has literally NO other place to go. His only family is his dad who is permanently moving to Costa Rica next week and htey don't even talk. So its here or on the street... He wants things to work out, but i dunno I can't just throw one of my good friends onto the street.

what you need to do is help him find a job, help him keep it and eventually he will learn if he doesnt want to be homeless.

[Weedguru Higher]

Well, if you have nobody other than him to rent the room too then you may as well take a chance. Half a chance of getting the rent money is better than none at all. But if you had someone more reliable I would take that person and just offer him your couch. If he has no where else to go, he will be very happy with that couch. When I separated from my ex I spent about 4 months living on a couch till I got back on my feet as I took a real heavy blow. It wasn't the end of the world. In fact it motivated me more to make the necessary efforts to get things together and get my own place and stuff back

[andriaSRH]

My roomate is on probation and our house has been raided two times in the last three months, simply becasue they have the autority to come over here and search whenever they please. I got into a huge arguement with them the last time they were here about digging through my room, because I'm not the one on probation. Anyway they told me legally they can open the door and walk into my room, but they are not supposed to snoop through my stuff. Thing is I don't trust these fuckers with a ten foot stick if I'm not at home they will probably search through whatever they want (as they did the first time).

That is total bullshit

[Weedguru_Falkon]

It's not that hes lazy and doesn't want to get a job, its just.. I dunno. He tries for jobs that are commission based, and we know how those fail. i keep pushing him to get one, to go look for one, so he spends ten minutes on craigslist and stops looking. So i leave for work and say hey, get on the train, go to downtown, look around. Fill out apps everywhere you go, hiring or not.
He has two months rent or so right now, so I guess he feels pretty secure that he can get a job in that time, so it doesn't seem like an imminent concern to him. Hes one of my best friends, he really is. He just needs to go for a real job. I'm pushin, i'm pushin...

[Weedguru Higher]

My roomate is on probation and our house has been raided two times in the last three months, simply becasue they have the autority to come over here and search whenever they please. I got into a huge arguement with them the last time they were here about digging through my room, because I'm not the one on probation. Anyway they told me legally they can open the door and walk into my room, but they are not supposed to snoop through my stuff. Thing is I don't trust these fuckers with a ten foot stick if I'm not at home they will probably search through whatever they want (as they did the first time).

That is total bullshit

That is very true. I have been on probation and know that they have the power to do that. Never had it done to me though

[(weedguru)scarf]

He stays on the couch man... that way you can have someone else move into the room if he cant pay...
if he moves into the room then youre both fucked because like you said you cant pay the rent for both of you...
then youre both on the street... explain this to him... if im living on a couch... im doing everything i can to
get some cash and a job to get off the couch and at least get a room...

[cutthecashflow]

My roomate is on probation and our house has been raided two times in the last three months, simply becasue they have the autority to come over here and search whenever they please. I got into a huge arguement with them the last time they were here about digging through my room, because I'm not the one on probation. Anyway they told me legally they can open the door and walk into my room, but they are not supposed to snoop through my stuff. Thing is I don't trust these fuckers with a ten foot stick if I'm not at home they will probably search through whatever they want (as they did the first time).

That is total bullshit

That is very true. I have been on probation and know that they have the power to do that. Never had it done to me though

Yea it really sucks, but when it comes to your word versus theirs they usually always win unless your going to pay a ton of money for a good lawyer. The court appointed ones aren't worth a dime.

You make a decision yet dude?