From Reddit user deneoument: Currently dealing with the aftermath of a roommate from hell. Roommate L landed a job out of town for the summer and found J to take over her lease for three months. J had two jobs (seemed responsible) and for the first month or so we all liked her. She was nice, social, did weird things like use toilet paper bizarrely quickly but otherwise she seemed fine. Roommate R shares the basement with J, and R threw a small birthday party for a friend one night. J proceeded to invite the entire college basketball and football teams to our small house. Approximately 50 strangers showed up inebriated and screaming all over the neighborhood... About two weeks ago, rent was due and J didn't pay. (Rent is ~10% of her monthly income.) After rent was late a few days, she offered the excuse that someone had stolen her debit card and cleared out her account, and that she was working with the police and her bank for a refund. Around the same time, R received a Snapchat of J wearing one of R's shirts. She had taken it out of R's room. I advised R to check her room for more missing things. She quickly realized that $200 was missing from the opaque black jar she kept tips in (it was hidden in an inconspicuous place; someone would have had to really search for it)... J was again confronted about her late rent and missed repeated scheduled meetings with rental managers because "her mother was in the hospital." J told me her mom had tried to kill herself; she told rental managers she had breast cancer. She told a friend her mother wasn't in the hospital at all. She also told friends that money had been stolen from her room and that she had set up a camera to catch the thief in the act. R hid the tip jar in a dirty laundry basket in her closet until she could get to the bank. When she took it out, $300 more was missing. We called the police, and while they couldn't do much, they advised us to confront J and get her to confess. J was evicted for late rent and given a 3-day notice to exit the premises. She agreed to meet with R and me to discuss the stolen money, but didn't arrive when she'd said she would (as we expected). She snuck into the house later that day; I happened to hear her and cornered her, calling the rental managers and R. We confronted J and she confessed to stealing over $650 from R and agreed to pay the amount back the next day. Next day she texts R and says she can only pay her $100. R is pressing charges and J has been trespassed from our property. ... It's been a wild few weeks.