The entire house smells like shit
I live in suburban style house with an older woman who is the landlord and about 6 months ago she decided to get another roommate. A retired single guy on disability in his 60s. Never been married and no kids. I overheard their conversation when they first met and the landlord asked if there was any problems with drugs or alcohol to which he said the answer was no
The first 3 months were cool and I’d regularly run into the guy and talk with him about life. The only thing that I found odd was how often he went to the bathroom. He told me that he had been through multiple medical surgeries so I thought that might have something to do with it. Fast forward a few months later and the first “shitty” incident occurred. As I’m leaving to work in the morning I go to use the bathroom and find shit and piss all over the floor. I did some reconnaissance and thought it might have been the cat but there’s no way. So I snap a couple of pictures and send it to him and the landlord. He apologizes and says he didn’t even notice it. I returned home from work later that day and the landlord told me he didn’t even bother cleaning it and that she had to because she was having guests over later that evening and he locked himself in his room for the day. That put her on high alert and the months to follow she began doing her own investigations
Another few months later and there’s a couple more incidents. One time guy decided to do laundry at 2AM like really dude? I confronted him about it and he said he felt bad about it but how could you not think that wouldn’t wake up others who are sleeping?
I come home from work another day and the landlord immediately approaches me with concern. She shows me some pictures she captured on her phone of the state of this guys room. Multiple mountain piles waist high of beer cans and lunchable containers and the bedsheets were covered in brown shit stains. I had never seen anything like it before and neither had she, absolute squalor. At this point the guys behavior had severely changed. I noticed he stopped doing laundry as frequently or taking showers and eventually I started to notice a strong odor emitting from his room as I walked past it every morning. The smell of literal shit, stale beer, and sweet tangy BO and funk. It was nauseating. IYKYK. I mentioned this to the landlord and she noticed it too
The next day she told me she spoke with him about the state of his room and he agreed to clean it. Multiple days go by and nothing happens. We don’t hear a peep from this dude and it got to the point where we thought he was dead. So the landlord being the sweet lady she is did a courtesy welfare check and when I returned home from work that day she told me the guy was in the worst state she ever seen him. Shaking, trembling, sweating… he was full blown withdrawing from what I believe is alcohol but who knows. She offered to call an ambulance or help in any way she could but he refused all of it. Now here we are this weekend and the landlord has left with her partner on vacation earlier in the week. It’s just the roommate and I. Landlord asked if I could send her a text to confirm if he cleaned his room or not and I have no problem doing so. As I’m getting ready in the morning to go out and do my errands I hear movement from outside my room and the dude is finally cleaning his room. However, the moment I open my door into the shared living space I am quite literally smacked in the face with one of the worst smells I’ve ever encountered
Mind you that I’ve worked on many farms in the past with smells that don’t even compare to this one. Everything brewing up in this man’s room had escaped and infiltrated every pore of this house. I almost threw up with how disgusting it was. I did my errands and returned several hours later and the house still smelt as bad as it did earlier. I opened up all windows to the house and left for the day as I couldn’t stand the smell. I confronted him later on that evening about the smell and again he felt bad and told me he’d been up all night and day trying to clean it. Why let it get as bad as it is? Idk man, whatever. As I write this now the smell is still lingering but not as strong as it was yesterday. I let the landlord know about all of it and I know by now she’s at her wits end. Anyone else on here ever had a similar experience?
Posted Feb 15, 2026, 3:51 PM UTC