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You don't want to risk being/ seeming mean, heartless, cold, or "a bad friend." I get that, I'm similar in that nature. What I recommend is that you take a few minutes to reflect much upon how she is steamrolling you (probably giggling to her friends--- including her "new" friends who were bltches to you a while back--- about how she is taking you for a ride), and once you are good and convinced that, sure enough, she IS totally taking adavantage of you... of another person's kindness and generosity... THEN go work on kicking her sorry butt out of there. Face the fact that you are going to lose a friend: Oh, wait... YOU were being a friend, but SHE was being a freeloader... you are NOT losing a friend. And, just as it is no business how much she earns or what she does with her money (true, as long as you get your money), it shouldn't be any of HER business how much you pay in rent/ mortgage (I'm sure she is fully aware already that your place is paid off, but... the point is, THAT shouldn't matter to a tenant. Landlords do not base their rent charged by how much they still owe, what their montlhy mortgage is, or any of that... the agreement between owner and tenant is completely independent of that). Your loss of privacy, your additional costs, your NOT being able to rent out the extra space to somebody willing to pay $1000/ month is what she should be paying for.
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