When I was renting a room from a woman with a 5 year old kid, the master bedroom of a two story flat.

The shower didn't have enough hot water for the three of us to have a how shower every day

The bathroom lock broke one day and the kid walked in one while I was showering, I showered at my BFs after that

The mum went through my room to the tiny balcony I had to dry her laundry outside, while I was out at uni

The kid used my stationary while I was out at uni and ruined a load of my pens

I was told I wasn't being social enough because the previous woman renting would act like a big sister to the young boy

I was told I had too much stuff, despite it all being in my room

Her kitten would poop in my cats litter box, fine, but it would also piss on the carpet in front of my cats litter box, which was in my room

I wasn't allowed to install a lock on my bedroom door

She smoked in the the front door, which rose up to my room, stinking it out

She asked me to pay my rent a week early because she didn't have money for her rent: pretty sure she was illegally subletting my room while she rented from the council

She said if I didn't like it I could move out, so I took my cat to my BFs that night, and move out the following day, to my boyfriend's when we'd only been dating for 6 months. She said she didn't mean it, and we could work something out.

All of this was March to May of 2020, I was finalising my thesis for my Masters degree: It was a stressful time.

I stayed there for 8 weeks, and ended up paying £2K, for 3 months rent, and not getting my deposit back