u/Responsible-Creme315

My roommate Danish and I have shared an apartment for three years, splitting rent and utilities evenly the whole time. About four months ago his girlfriend started staying over regularly, and at this point she's here probably 5-6 nights a week, uses the kitchen, showers daily, the whole thing. She's never contributed anything toward rent, utilities, or even shared groceries she eats.

I like her as a person and don't want to make this weird, but our utility bills have noticeably gone up, and it's starting to feel like I'm subsidizing a third person's living costs without ever agreeing to that arrangement. I mentioned it once casually, joking that the utilities went up, hoping Danish would take the hint, but nothing changed.

I don't know how to bring this up more directly without it turning into a bigger conflict or making things awkward every time she's around, which is basically all the time now. I also don't want to seem like I'm attacking their relationship when my actual issue is just about the financial and space fairness of it.

Has anyone navigated this kind of situation before? How do you bring up something like this without it becoming a much bigger fight than it needs to be? TL;DR: My roommate's girlfriend has basically moved in over the last 4 months (staying 5-6 nights/week, using utilities, kitchen, etc.) without contributing anything financially. I hinted about rising utility bills once but nothing changed. Not sure how to bring it up directly without turning it into a bigger conflict.

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This has happened four times over the past three months. Water starts dripping through a spot on my bathroom ceiling, I report it, maintenance comes out within a day or two, tells me it's been resolved, and then a few weeks later it happens again in the exact same spot.

Each time there's already a visible water stain forming that keeps getting slightly bigger, and I'm genuinely worried about mold developing behind the drywall at this point, not just the visible dripping. I've asked directly whether they've actually inspected the neighbor's washing machine connection or just patched something on my side, and I keep getting vague answers about it being "addressed."

I don't know if I should be pushing for an actual professional plumber to assess the source instead of whatever quick fix they're doing, or documenting this more formally in case it becomes a bigger issue with mold or structural damage later.

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Not the big renovations, more the smaller fixes or additions that had an outsized impact once you finally got around to them. Curious what everyone kept putting off that turned out to be way easier or more worthwhile than expected.

My grandmother recently passed away in Texas without a formal will. She had one house and some savings. There are three grandchildren, myself included, but no children of hers are still alive to inherit directly. We're not sure how Texas intestate succession laws divide property among grandchildren in this situation. Has anyone gone through something similar, or know where we should start (probate court, a specific type of lawyer, etc.)? We understand this isn't a replacement for actual legal advice.