[piercehawkeye45]

Looking back I did not bring up this point. What I wrote is only what I think may happen in a worst case scenario, not what will most likely happen. I can see next year being fine or I can see it being bad and in case it does get bad I wanted advise on how to handle it. I appreciate the advise on moving out, which if I knew this was going to happen for sure or if I was not best friends with two of the guys I would seriously consider, but I can only see more bad coming out of it then good.

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Pierce, if you don't drink, I imagine living with people who just want to party like rock stars (without the money bonus of a rock star) would be very difficult. Drunk people really get on sober people's nerves. I hope you can find an alternate arrangement: the situation you described spells trouble to me.

I really don't have a problem being the sober one with most of my friends since the majority of them are actually pretty mature when they drink. I have never been so happy with a group of friends in my life so I am not going to ditch out on them. Besides, even when I did drink, certain drunk people would get on my nerves anyways so it really didn't change much from that perspective.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I'd vote for moving out. If prior knowledge gives you the opportunity to know what's up the road, why put yourself though the hassle and stress - which will possibly affect your marks and ability to focus on the real goal - when you know you can avoid it?

Moving out isn't an option until there are already very large problems, which I doubt will get to that point anyways and my intention of creating this thread was to discuss ways to prevent getting to that point if it did happen. Moving out would be insulting to my friends because they (Joe and Eric) said Nick was cool and moving out in speculation of him being an unclean belligerent asshole will cause fights and probably isolate me from the group, which I'm not willing to risk because I am extremely satisfied with my friend situation besides this one part.

Originally Posted by Monster

Why are you allowing this person to move in if he already has you stressing out 6 weeks before he moves in?

My two roommates picked him and when he signed the lease he did have a steady girlfriend who kept him under control. Nick does respond to people who he respects so it isn't an impossible situation and I do have the backing of all my friends that do not live there and even the one who is at his girlfriend's place all the time. If I didn't then I would seriously consider moving out because I do agree with you that it isn't worth living with assholes but when it comes at the expense of best friends, it is different. I would consider Eric and Joe some of my best friends even though we do get into arguments every once in a while.

Originally Posted by Cloud

Maybe even a brave female one, to bring some actual civilization into your home.

Haha, I was hoping his ex-girlfriend would have filled that slot. But right now our house is fine, I am extremely content. It is that I see potential breakdown so what I described is not a guarantee but only speculation. I made this thread for other stories and advise if it did get to that point. Looking back, I did not make that clear enough.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I was in a situation that was not as bad as yours, but my lines are also a lot closer in than yours are, and towards the end some of my roommates found it funny to deliberately try to irritate me. Here is what ended up working for me until the lease finally ran out: I changed the knob on my bedroom door to one that had a lock. I spent the majority of my time in my room, and I locked it when I left. I purchased a mini-fridge, and kept all my own food in there. I also kept my set of pots/dishes in my room, and washed them immediately after cooking so I could take them back to my room. I also made sure I only ever threw things away in the garbage can in my room, and emptied it accordingly. Ultimately, I made my own apartment inside what I pretended to be a particularly dirty and raucous hallway leading to my front door. The one thing I lost was the communal TV in the livingroom, but hey, I had a computer.

That is basically my short term strategy if I get annoyed with roommates and as of now it hasn't gone past that point. If I find my roommates annoying, which is inevitable, I just do something by myself or call someone else.

Originally Posted by Jinx

A. Look at it as a learning experience. Get some real insight into people who think and act differently than you. Exercise your restraint and compromise muscles. Hone you negotiating skills.

That is how I am looking at it right now.

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Explain to them how women like it clean.

Hahaha. That would be a very good argument.