AITA For Moving Out After My Ex-Best Friend Claimed She Was My ‘House Guest’?

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About a year ago, and my fiancé at the time (now ex, partly thanks to this) was looking for a larger apartment to rent due to us adopting a puppy. While we were looking, my self-proclaimed “bestie” was trying to get a problematic tenant out of the apartment she owned and needed someone to rent it. Due to her living out of the country, she needed the rent money to keep up with the payments.

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1. She offered to rent us the apartment after the tenant left

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At first, everything was great until she decided she was moving in with us right in the middle of our breakup. When she moved in and called herself my “house guest”, she demanded I keep paying full rent and utilities as normal while she lived with me indefinitely. She took over the guest bedroom and started removing my belongings from the closets. It got to the point that she took over the wardrobes and threw my clothes into bags in my room. When me and my ex tried to patch things up, she forbade him to come to the apartment while his name was still on the lease next to mine.

2. She even went so far as to rip the old contract apart and write up a new one that she signed herself in my name

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It stated she as the landlord could live there as long as she wanted, however, I am still responsible for all payments.

Slowly she started telling me what parts of the apartment are just for her now and what parts I can use as this is her apartment and I’m just renting it from her. She would even kick my puppy away from the areas she decided were just hers now, like the balcony, one of the bedrooms, and a part of the hallway. This made me furious! The last straw was when a friend came over to console me about the breakup as I was heartbroken and in a mad mental place and she couldn’t care enough to even sit and talk it out with me.

3. She told me my friend can’t come to sit with me anymore at her apartment (that I am paying for) because she doesn’t trust him because of his race and religious beliefs

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