It’s a live-in nightmare.
Moving in with strangers that you meet online is sometimes a necessary evil, owing to the high cost of rent and limited housing options worldwide.
But this couple’s roommate demands extend far beyond the boundaries of evil, and cross the line into “horror film” freakiness.
“Me and my boyfriend are looking to rent out our spare room in our flat in Battersea,” London-based lovebirds Alex and Madi announced in a viral listing, which has scared up over 2.3 million X views. “It’s a beautiful apartment, the room is a bright, double bedroom.”
The twosome goes on to spotlight their apartment’s prime location and luxe layout, claiming the two-bedroom residence features “lots of dining and relaxing space, and loads of built-in storage and desk space in the room,” as well as “high ceilings[…]separate bathroom, kitchen, dining and living rooms.”
And at a reduced rate of just over $1,500, plus an unspecified amount in “bills” — a meager markdown from the nearly $1,700 Alex and Madi say they usually charge renters — the spare room and shared living spaces can all be yours.
So long as you don’t actually live there full-time.
“We are hoping to find someone who has a partner or family nearby that they can spend the night with occasionally,” writes the couple, “[offering] us the apartment for 3-4 separate nights a month to relax on our own.”
The pair’s questionable request for routine vacancy, coupled with the high cost of tenancy, sent social media spiraling.
“That would be a *horrid* living setup,” spat a creeped-out commenter. “[$1,500] and you have to creep around this stingy couple and stress about not being there at least one night a week? Absolutely not.”
“This needs to be made into a horror film,” an equally outraged onlooker, in part.
“If I have a partner or family nearby to crash with…why am I paying you [$1,500] instead of them?,” another wondered aloud.
“The entitlement of some people,” said a naysayer.
But finding a reasonable roomie can be a tricky task that, in some especially cringe-worthy cases, ends in terrifying tragedy.
Alvaro “Bert” Gonzales Montoya, a California man who suffered from schizophrenia, had the misfortune of moving in with serial killer Dorothea Puente in the late 1980s, per Netflix docu-series “Worst Roommate Ever.” Puente, a grandmother-type who ran a boarding house for folks in need, murdered Montoya and at least six others who took shelter on her property.
Eugene Sarver, an elderly Upper West Side man grappling with severe Parkinson’s disease, and wife, Nina, who has dementia, previously told The Post that their millennial roommate, Lawrence Lee, was a “horrible tenant and a pathological liar!”
The Sarvers claimed Lee had stopped paying the $992 required for a room in their home on 97th Street, alleging that he was more than $12,000 delinquent in back-owed monthly rent. The intense stress of the situation regularly sent both senior citizens to the hospital.
Taylor Paré, a NYC content creator, too, shared her nightmarish experience while living with a Victoria’s Secret model.
“I was horrified to find that she stole things from every single person in the apartment,” said the brunette of her unnamed ex-roommate on TikTok. “Weird things. Like pens and cups, tons of prescription medicine that she would not have been able to use.”
Paré went on to out the runway diva for having a disgusting habit of hoarding her unhygienic unmentionables.
“This is the grossest part. She would keep all of her trash, dirty used tampons, tissues that she would wipe her nose, her butt… like you’d see like poo on them,” said sickened Paré. “She’d keep them all in her suitcase that was kept in our apartment.”
“It was so foul!”
