Roommate Ruckus: Should I Help with TV License Debts? AITA?
AITA for not helping my roommate with TV license debts? Roommate's past actions come back to haunt him, but OP is hesitant to get involved due to potential consequences.
A dorm roommate from a few years ago just resurfaced with a request that feels equal parts petty and terrifying: the TV license company is coming for him, and he wants OP’s old login credentials to prove they paid.
Back then, OP says the roommate was a nightmare, sneaking in his girlfriend who “stayed for two months” and somehow ended up there for years, hogging the common rooms, breaking OP’s stuff, and acting like it was no big deal. Now the roommate is facing backdated fees and possible seizure of his stuff, and OP can’t find any records from that era.
It’s basically a throwback drama, except this time it might cost OP real money. Here’s the full story.
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A few years ago I lived in a dorm during my studies. I've had a terrible roommate who sneaked his gf in ("she will just stay for 2 months max"-she stayed for years), occupied the common rooms all the time and was generally a leech who destroyed loads of my stuff and just put it back without saying anything.
Recently he contacted me asking whether I could provide him the credentials of our multimedia licence account from back then since they're trying to force him to pay the fees backdated for the time we lived together. Apparently he never took care of their claims and now they're about to seize his stuff.
I searched my documents and couldn't find any information since it's been a while and usually I don't keep that stuff for ages. I'm sure we paid everything and I could call the company and talk with them about this case, but I'm afraid they made some kind of mistake and are going to try to get that money from me and I really don't want to start a longish letter war with them with being forced to pay in the end.
So Aita if I don't step in and support him.
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The girlfriend who “only stayed for two months” isn’t the only thing that overstayed, because now the roommate is trying to pull OP into the TV license mess too.
After OP searched old documents and came up empty, the fear kicks in that the company will blame OP anyway, even if the roommate dropped the ball.
That’s when the roommate’s demand for “credentials” starts to feel like payback for years of leech behavior, not a simple administrative fix.
With backdated fees and the threat of seizing his stuff hanging over him, OP has to decide whether to help the guy who never helped himself.
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