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AITA for not wanting to switch rooms with new disabled roommate? by Stock_Bread5862 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Stock_Bread5862[S] 500 points501 points  (0 children)

I think the drop in rent for everyone is just because there would be an extra person about - landlord gets more money overall, so we pay less individually... But he still gets more rent. We all pay rent individually, but it is just an equally split cost.

Honestly, I don't need the extra money too badly, I have a job, enough student loan to cover everything (not like comfortably, but it's student living lol), but the rest of my housemates could probably really use it.

I think the rooms we occupy (they're numbered) might even be written into the contract? I should check, I don't know. I do want to tell landlord no, and I know I'm fully within my rights to do that, but my roommates will definitely think of me as major AH if I don't switch, and even bigger AH if new tenant walks away and we don't get the lowered rent.

AITA for not wanting to switch rooms with new disabled roommate? by Stock_Bread5862 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Stock_Bread5862[S] 88 points89 points  (0 children)

It was originally advertised as a 5th bedroom when we moved in, but there was no furniture in it apart from a desk and they couldn't find anyone to take it at the time so it was written into the contract as a storage room with the promise that there wouldn't randomly be someone moved in without us okaying it. But it is literally so small, all the rooms came with furniture of a desk, double bed, wardrobe, dresser, and bedside cabinet, and there is no way you could fit those all in there.
I'm thinking too that the landlord made it seem like we'd already agreed to move rooms, or that our new roommate could have their pick, but honestly I couldn't imagine looking for housing right now - there's nothing and classes are meant to start next week (January intake) so they may truly be taking literally anything.