I had a roommate last year. It was a messed up situation. Now that I'm in AA and in recovery it looks even worse.
She was the exgirlfriend of my dealer. She was addicted in a major way, no job, supported on and off by various dudes and her parents. For a while she would pay me in drugs. When I refused to accept drugs, she just stopped paying me at all. When her parents rent check bounced, I told her that she needed to find a way to reconcile the debt. Another month and another month's rent was due, with no money in sight. She never did pay me, so I told her to leave and call me when she got it together enough to pay me back, even a portion of the money or a payment plan.
She also stole one of the tires and rims off my car!
I assume it was for drugs. She was also taking money from my purse, $10 or $20 here and there.
She agreed to stay with friends until she had a job and then I said we could discuss future arrangements. She dipped without taking much of anything. A few weeks later she broke into my house through a window to get some random stuff, clothes and makeup mainly. I don't know why, I told her when she left to call me and let me know when she wanted the rest of her things.
I hadn't heard from her in months - since before thanksgiving. She left a lot of stuff here, TV, Computer, clothes, pictures...
She called late night a few days ago, EXTREMELY coked up. I was in the shower, she left an unintelligible message. She called my exboyfriend, thinking he and I were still together, and tried to flirt with him into letting her into my house. He doesn't have a key any more, he called me to tell me to lock my doors. She didn't have any money but claimed that she was going to "eventually" and that "she had a job lined up at a bar".
Apparently she has gone on a downward slide since I saw her. She is smoking crack. I'm friends with a guy she's staying with and he's kicking her out because in the past 2 months he's developed a bad coke problem, too, with her staying there. She does it every day, pretty much. If she's not doing it she's trying to get it, or passed out.
I don't want to deal with it any more. I'll never get the money she owes me, now over $1000.
Is there a time limit to how long I have to store her stuff? Can I sell at least the TV and the computer to recoup my losses?
I'm not comfortable with her coming over because she is always coked up and since she has no car (she sold her car) she gets rides from questionable people.
I figure I could just box up her stuff and put it on the driveway or something and tell her to pick it up while I'm there.
I have to deal with the consequences of my recent addiction issues. I just don't know HOW. It's a stupid situation that a person who wasn't a cokehead would probably never get into...I'm in recovery now, but I still have to deal with these people...
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