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Difficult roomate/housing situation

SoreArms

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My parents are planning on selling their current home and most likely moving out of state to Arizona. I have two younger (adult) brothers and one younger sister (12 years old ) that still live at home.

One of my bros (24) has lived on his own for 3-4 years, he lived with his ex gf for a couple of years, then they broke up and he lived on his own for about 1 year. He then decided he wanted to go back to school (which was a real good decision), so he moved back to my parents house. He's currently going to Devry for accounting and is also working part (3/4) time.

My other brother (22) has always lived at home, just transfered to Long Beach State and works part time.

Both of then are going to stay here in L.A. when my parents move, my sister is too young so she'll go with them.

One of my fears is that they'll be pressed for money to pay rent, and they'll wind up dropping out of school, or taking less classes to work full time. I've talked to both of them and told them that if they had trouble finding living accomodations I would be willing to move out with either or both of them and take the biggest burden of the rent to allow them to keep their current school and work schedule.

I currently have a roomate, we've been living in the same place for 5 years now. I don't want to be a dick and just skip out on him if I need to move out with my bros. I'd like to give him a heads up because I'd like the same courtesy if it was the other way around.

So here's the dilema:
If I tell him whats going, he's most likely going to either start looking for another place or another roomate (as any half brained person would do). The problem for me is that if my brothers don't wind up needing my help and my roomate went ahead and made other arrangements, I'd be totally assed out and would then need to find a place of my own.

So that's my dilema, any suggestions?
 
hamstershaver said:
sounds to me like you are going to end up living with your brothers
my biggest concern is my youngest bro, the other one is better prepared and more responsible than myself
 
Shit your younger brothers 22, when I was 22 I lived across the country from my parents. He's an adult. Let him take care of himself.
You and your bros should just deceide if you want to live together. Thats the question.
But don't give him an "out", thats telling him you dont think he can make it on his own.
 
You can always look for something with a month to month lease as you wait and see how your siblings' lives unfold if your roommate bails on you.
 
jestros said:
Shit your younger brothers 22, when I was 22 I lived across the country from my parents. He's an adult. Let him take care of himself.
You and your bros should just deceide if you want to live together. Thats the question.
But don't give him an "out", thats telling him you dont think he can make it on his own.
Did you provide for yourself or did your parents help you out with money? Where you going to school at that time, how difficult was that for you?

My parents are not going to help out with money. Personally, I lived on my own, worked full time and went to school full time. It was stressfull and tiring as fuck. If I can help either of my bros avoid that kind of stress to allow them to finish school and get off on their own I will. I never was much of a big brother growing up, I was too into myself and living in excess to teach them or help them with anything and actually my 24 year old bro is always helping me out with finance crap, co-signed for my student loans, etc.... so I see this as kind of a chance to do some of that older brother crap.
 
SoreArms said:
If I tell him whats going, he's most likely going to either start looking for another place or another roomate (as any half brained person would do). The problem for me is that if my brothers don't wind up needing my help and my roomate went ahead and made other arrangements, I'd be totally assed out and would then need to find a place of my own.

I see nothing that you will gain by telling him "what's up".

Don't even concern yourself with it unless things start occuring and you have to make a decision to stay or to leave.

He may be your friend, but you two have a financial arrangement. You're not tied down (unless you're in some long-term lease or co-habitating as partners (every1 refrain from bad gay jokes!)) so i see no moral implications from having to move out to live with family.

I mean -- you obviously HAVE to move out one day or another. Unless you plan on living there with him til you're 85.

Just go with the flow and since there's nothing you can do right now -- don't do anything.
 
Get a big place for you, your roommate, and your bros!

And I love threads like this, Mexicans are so good at taking care of family. White brothers don't do shit for each other.
 
Razorguns said:
I see nothing that you will gain by telling him "what's up".

Don't even concern yourself with it unless things start occuring and you have to make a decision to stay or to leave.

He may be your friend, but you two have a financial arrangement. You're not tied down (unless you're in some long-term lease or co-habitating as partners (every1 refrain from bad gay jokes!)) so i see no moral implications from having to move out to live with family.

I mean -- you obviously HAVE to move out one day or another. Unless you plan on living there with him til you're 85.

Just go with the flow and since there's nothing you can do right now -- don't do anything.
This is somethign that started at the begining of the year, so I had just been goign about my bussiness and waiting to see what was, if anything, going to happen. Today one my of my bros called me, he found a 3 bedroom house that he wants me to go look at with him after work. So things seem to be happening now, I need to start thinking of what I need to do.

My roomate is as financially irresponsible as I am, so if he were to move out on me and wait until the last minute to let me know, I'd be fucked. That's why I would liek to warn abotu what might be going on, but at the same time I don't nescessarilly want to fuck myself over and wind up living in some shit hole part of town because I can't find something suitable on my own (my credit is shit and so is his).

Like I said earlier, we've been roomates for 5+ years now, he also has a kid that stays with us every other week. As he grows up the more I need to watch what I do and say around him. I don't have kids my own so that I don't have to worry about those things, so it's about time to move on, not to mention that we've grown apart as homies. Not that we're nto friends anymore, we just don't ahve similar interests anymore and rarely eve nsee each other at home anymore. Did I ever mention I used to bone his sister? That made it rough at home for a while :D
 
SoreArms said:
This is somethign that started at the begining of the year, so I had just been goign about my bussiness and waiting to see what was, if anything, going to happen. Today one my of my bros called me, he found a 3 bedroom house that he wants me to go look at with him after work. So things seem to be happening now, I need to start thinking of what I need to do.

My roomate is as financially irresponsible as I am, so if he were to move out on me and wait until the last minute to let me know, I'd be fucked. That's why I would liek to warn abotu what might be going on, but at the same time I don't nescessarilly want to fuck myself over and wind up living in some shit hole part of town because I can't find something suitable on my own (my credit is shit and so is his).

Like I said earlier, we've been roomates for 5+ years now, he also has a kid that stays with us every other week. As he grows up the more I need to watch what I do and say around him. I don't have kids my own so that I don't have to worry about those things, so it's about time to move on, not to mention that we've grown apart as homies. Not that we're nto friends anymore, we just don't ahve similar interests anymore and rarely eve nsee each other at home anymore. Did I ever mention I used to bone his sister? That made it rough at home for a while :D
jsut tell him you're gonna be moving out soon then, I thought you guys were bosom buddies or something.
 
Lestat said:
jsut tell him you're gonna be moving out soon then, I thought you guys were bosom buddies or something.
we were, we've been friends since elementary but have grown apart (as friends) in the last year or so
 
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