#4 DECIDING ON A FLOOR PLAN
After finding an apartment that we both liked, he immediately starts telling me how we should lay out the floor plan before the lease was even signed. He begins the conversation as such. "So I've been thinking about how we should lay out the floor plan...I really want to make this place look nice, like a pimped out bachelow pad". He then proceeds to tell me that he wants to put up Soprano's posters in the living room. He tells me where and how all of my furniture should be laid out in the common space. I suggested to him that it may be a good idea for me to sell my couch since I have a very large sectional leather couch that takes up a lot of space, and perhaps downsize to something a little more compact. He said that he likes the couch and that it will be fine. He then tells me he wants to mount my LCD TV above the kitchen bar, and that I should get rid of the TV stand I have. I asked him why he wants me to get rid of it since it does not take up that much space. He says I should get rid of it because he wants to have a dining table because "eating at the kitchen bar is ghetto". I said that if he wants a kitchen table, then he can take care of researching whether a TV can be mounted above the bar in the first place, paying for the mount/installation, and be fully responsible should anything happen to the TV, wall, floor, etc as a result of the mounting (and potential falling) of the TV.
A side note about about where he wants to mount the TV: on the back side of the wall where he wants to mount the TV, we have a bunch of kitchen cabinets. The last thing I wanted was for him to drill through those while trying to mount the tv. He also had no clue whether or not there were any beams or places he could anchor the TV too in that part of the wall. You would think someone with an engineering degree from a good school would be able to figure out the basic essentials for how to mount a TV.
Back to the story now: He then tells me that he thinks it would be fair if I split the cost of the kitchen table and bar stools with him. I mean, seriously? I'm bringing my couch, TV, all my kitchen appliances/supplies, and miscellaneous electronics (video game consoles, wireless router, etc). His cheap ass can't buy a couple of bar stools and a table (which I don't even want) from Ikea?
Of course, to this day, the TV is happily sitting on the TV stand because he is too cheap and too lazy to research how to mount it. I also made him pay for the bar stools and table, which he paid <$150 combined for from Walmart because "Ikea was too expensive".
