Ask a Native New Yorker: How to Handle a Bad Roommate?
Jake Dobkin, Gothamist publisher and the author of Ask a Native New Yorker: Hard-Earned Advice on Surviving and Thriving in the Big City (Abrams Image, 2019), answers questions on how to survive in New York City from his perspective as a lifelong New Yorker. Today, advice on what to do about your roommate-from-hell.
"Explain that all relationships rest on this essential reciprocity and you got to then list all of the ways they violated this basic human fairness so there can be no confusion as to what’s going on," says @jakedobkin on how to handle roommates-from-hell.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 7, 2019
"What you really want to do is write down the solutions. Calmly discuss the answers to your problems, agree on some solutions and write them down in what we’ll call a roommate contract," says @jakedobkin.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) March 7, 2019
