Am I wrong? What do I do?

I’m at university, and have rented a house for next year with three friends. We’re renting it for the entire year (i.e. including summer vacations, etc.) Two of my friends sub-rented their rooms to other people for the summer. The other two of us elected to pay the rent for the summer so we could use the house over the summer. This is fairly standard as far up to now. However, my point is this:

There are four bedrooms in the house, three are aprox. the same size, the fourth being about 1/3 the size of the others. In order to circumvent the problems this could cause, we decided to rotate this room amongst us, and draw straws on who would have this room first. OK, so I drew the short straw. It was agreed with the other people renting the house that I could have pick of the rooms for the summer. So I chose one (obviously not the smallest one).

The sub-renting persons rented their rooms out for around 1/2 of what they are paying for the place. Still fine. However, when I come to move in for the summer, I find that the two sub-renters are in fact occupying the two largest rooms still available (the third large room is being occupied by the other renter of the house, i.e. he who’s name is on the lease).

What do I do? There is one room left and it’s the smallest one. I cannot really move into this room without being pissed off, since I am paying twice the rent of two people staying in larger rooms.

HELP!!

I am at university and we have subletters in our house.

The key phrase is “our house”. You are allowing them to stay in your house. Tell them politely what the situation is and offer to help them to move.

Grendel69:

Yeah, tried that:
Sub-rentee one: ‘Oh, I’ve moved twice already’

me: and?

S-r1: ‘We’re doing y’all a favour by being here and paying some rent’

me: you’re not paying my rent

S-r1: ‘Well I think <the other sub-rentee> will move if you ask them nicely enough’.

Trouble is, the other one refuses to speak to me atm, since I picked her up on something really rude she did (incidentally she refused to believe that it was rude - she’s very difficult to reason with).

The other problem is that, if I do finally get one of them to move, it’s still unfair 'cos they’re paying the same rent as someone else in a larger room (not my problem, but I can see this coming back to me as one of their arguments).

F!ck