Leaving your parents’ house and moving into your own place can be one of the most exciting, liberating, stressful and difficult experiences you can go through, but it all depends on one thing: your roommates.

Just like that, your roommates hold the power to turn this liberating experience into your worst nightmare and cause you to go running back to your parents’ house. Don’t believe us? Check these roommate horror stories out…

Having a roommate can either be a total blast or turn out to be a complete disaster. We asked mitú readers to share with us their absolute worst roommate stories, and here is what they told us…

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WHAT THE?!… This is not exactly what we expected.

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How is this possible?

Based on the above, we caution you to try to control the amount of guests your roommates bring into your place.

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Because as Latinos, you know if you invite one person, you invite the entire family.

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That is way too many people…and for 6 MONTHS?! Hell naw. I would’ve told them what my mom says, “¿Que creen? ¿Que esta casa es un hotel?”

And sometimes those guests may turn out to be complete strangers…

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Or pets carrying pets.

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SMH. That is not cool.

But the worst kind of roommate is probably the roommate who likes to use your belongings without asking.

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We’ve all been there, but the above is just plain DIS-GUS-TING.

Pro tip: Buy a shower caddy, hide it under your bed and only take it to the bathroom when you’re going to use it.

Even more annoying is when you confront your roommate about taking something and they get defensive and deny that they ever touched your things.

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The lesson here is don’t eat people’s Twinkies because you will get caught!

If someone ate my food without asking, this is how I would’ve reacted:

That’s just something you don’t mess with – someone’s food.

The roommate situation gets even more frustrating when your roommate ruins your belongings…on purpose!

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Well at least that roommate was able to get her payback.

But a bad roommate listicle wouldn’t be complete without a sex story.

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Oh no no noooooo.

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That ain’t right!!

And these roommate sex stories only get worse.

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Well I guess they didn’t care too much about privacy…

And worse…? Ever heard the phrase “get a room, este no es un hotel”?

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Damn. These roommate stories make me appreciate my roommates a lot more. ?

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What are your nightmare roommate stories? Let us know in the comments and hit the share button below!