Hi, need some advice. I’m currently renting a common room at $800 on a year contract, so far I’ve only stayed for a month. The place is sort of an old shop-house, which is really huge.
So before I moved in, I asked the landlord if the wifi connectivity is good, she said yes. Handed her $800 deposit and $160 air-con maintenance.
TA was signed on the day I moved in. She ran through with me the house rules, DOs and DON’Ts. Landlord’s personality seemed nice and friendly online.
On the second day, I happened to use one of her Mugs which she hanged on the kitchen wallhooks. Soon later she found out and came knocking onto my door to confront me, asking why I used her mug as she dislike sharing her personal items with strangers due to hygene.
I sincerely apologised and told her that I did not know that I’m not supposed to use the households stuffs as she DIDN’T brief me about it. I washed the cup and returned it to its original place.
30minutes after, to my horror, she threw away both mugs of the same designs in the trash bin. I find it strange because she could’ve given me the mugs instead of wasting it away since I’ve already used it and she no longer wants them.
I also realised it was very difficult to “talk” to her as she doesn’t respond nor give proper response and most of the time she’s in a very “agitated/tense” state.
Sometimes when I see her at home, I would give her a “hello nod” but she would completely ignore / disregard it.
Couple of days back, she confronted me again over toothpaste stain on the basin. I mean I didn’t do it on purpose, as I’m sleepy AF while doing my morning wash up and I might have missed the spot. It’s minor but she made it looked bad.
Not only does living in with her makes me feel pressurised, the wifi on the other hand is tedious. I can’t even play games during my free time to relax, as I’m bombarded with ping spikes and packet loss.
I’m really annoyed by this as gaming helps me cope. Tbh, I don’t think she’s gonna do anything about it as she’s very old fashioned [she’s still using the PS5 look alike router from Singtel, which is like 10 years ago kinda shit] and she’s hard to talk to.
Hence, I’m planning to early terminate the contract and just let her have the deposit and aircon maintenance fee.
However, I’m afraid that she would demand for more fees since I’m terminating the contract early. On the TA it was never mentioned that there will be penalty fees to be paid, but I’m just worried she would charge me. I’m really lost and stressful over this. Please advise/suggest on what I should do. TIA