Let me draw the picture for you, this was my situation. In simplist terms my best friend and his boyfriend had no where to go. I took them into my home[notmyparents] I cooked for them, housed them, and shared everything else I had with them. Things started to get complicated and I had to move. Now they lived with me for over a month, rent was 525, electric was 70, and a couple hundred in food, even more money went to drugs, gas, ect. During this whole time I only recieved $65 for rent! My best friends boyfriend ran off shortly before the move and left a lot of his belongings. One of them included was a laptop[not a nice one either]. I decided that I was going to keep it as compensatation for rent. Now my best friend is having a shit fit because he thinks because it was his boyfriends that he is justified into keeping it! The hardest thing I ever had to do was tell him no. Now he is upset with me. I asked him if he wanted the rest of his bf's things as well because I am holding them- of course he didn't know how to respond. The fucked up part about this whole situation is that he wanted to sell the laptop. His ex is now in jail again and I'm not going to let him sell his laptop, I am not going to sell it either, I am going to keep it for his ex so when he gets out of jail he wouldn't have lost everything. Somehow I am wrong still though!?!?!
Keep the laptop for yourself, he owes you money. Explain that to the best friend, if they don't understand they'll either try to understand or aren't a very good friend. =/ Let your friend do what he wants with the rest of his ex's things..
