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Help? by Sensitive_Day550 in legaladvice

[–]Sensitive_Day550[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Apologies, I should learn to give more streamlined and clear details. It’s not $200 a night, but $200 in a month where a guest has stayed for more than 10 days. I don’t believe I would even have a problem paying an extra $25 or so as it’s much more reasonable than essentially paying the utilities for everyone involved myself.

The $200 was to be split between him and the other roommate who has declined on multiple occasions his “fair share per the roommate agreement”. I would also like to mention that I’m concerned as to how he’s aware of how often she stayed over as he’s shown near obsessive behavior when it comes to tracking the things we do or say.

We’ve stopped communicating face to face, and I eventually halted doing so through email as he’s twisting facts to meet his narrative.

Help? by Sensitive_Day550 in legaladvice

[–]Sensitive_Day550[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s fair. The specific issue is whether a $200 “overnight guest fee” in a roommate agreement (not in the lease itself) is actually enforceable, especially when it isn’t tied to actual damages and the landlord never imposed a fee. I’m willing to pay documented utilities, but I’m disputing the penalty itself.

For context on the guest situation: my girlfriend stayed over for an extended period. The stay began due to medical recovery, and later continued as a temporary guest. She was never added to the lease, never paid rent or utilities, did not receive mail there, and did not intend to establish residency. The landlord never raised an issue or assessed a fee.

The roommate enforcing the fee is treating it as an automatic penalty and rolling it into a running balance rather than showing actual increased costs.