Last year in October I moved out of my parents' house into a little condo with a friend from college as my room mate. Long and short of it is he's not a very good room mate. He's good about respecting my privacy, but he doesn't seem to give any semblance of a fuck about really basic things like keeping the common space clean, cleaning up after himself at all (even in his own room and the washroom which thankfully we don't share), and being quiet at night. On one hand, he lives a very different lifestyle from me, which is fine. My problem is it's negatively affecting my personal well being. It's very normal for me to wake up due to loud banging and clanging noises because he decided to work out in the apartment at 2am, or loud beeping because he decided doing his laundry at that time of night was a reasonable thing to do. Every time I clean a space, it's dirty the next morning, every time I put clutter away, it's out the next day. It's getting to the point where I really don't want to live with this guy anymore.
Most recently, he's gotten in the habit of waking up at 9am and turning on the air conditioning, because "he's too hot in his room". Thing is it's like 10 degrees celsius on a warm day this time of year in this area. I've asked him why he can't just open the huge window he has that covers his entire wall like a normal person and he told me that he refuses to acknowledge that there's a window there. I'm not kidding, his solution to being a bit toasty in his room in early/mid spring is to turn on the air conditioning. All of his reasoning for things like this is equally absurd. I once asked him why he thought doing his laundry at 2am was a good idea and he told me that he needed clean laundry. Ok fine, but you've been up since noon at least, couldn't you have done it during the day when I'm not trying to sleep? I got the same response about working out at 2am. Best part is we both work from home, and I constantly get little passive aggressive messages that I'm being too loud if I do so much as mutter something to myself out loud, because apparently his microphone is so sensitive that he picks up *every* sound, regardless of how miniscule. However, if I ask for some quiet at night when I'm trying to sleep I'm not allowed to have it.
I'm at my wits end now and I'm starting to consider how I go about dealing with this. I've tried talking to him and gotten fucking nowhere, and my lease ends in November. I'd really like to avoid conflict during these next 6 months but I'm getting pretty sick of this shit. I did the math and I could technically find a new place without a raise but money's going to be tight if I go that route. I've been campaigning for a raise for a while and it looks like things are moving along with that but it's a really uncertain time either way. I just feel trapped here, and don't really know what I can reasonably do besides fucking off as soon as I can.
