Apartment Complex Decides It’s Time Your Boyfriend Starts Paying Rent Too

Woodwalk Village, a local apartment complex, recently announced its plans to implement a “boyfriend fee” for residents with male significant others. The decision comes after management realized that too many residents’ boyfriends live with them full-time.

Complex supervisor Jane Chow describes boyfriends as “moochers.” The boyfriend fee will be an additional $100 per month, which will be used to cover the expenses related to the utilities, space, and annoyance attributed to boyfriends.

“We’re treating the boyfriend fee just like a charge for having a pet,” Chow said. “Aren’t all boyfriends animals anyway?”

The boyfriend fee has been met with a mixed response from tenants. Resident Izzy Wood said that she hopes the new charge will motivate her roommates’ boyfriends to get out of their house.

“I am glad they’re implementing the fee,” Wood said. “I honestly don’t mind that my roommates have boyfriends; I just think they have bad taste in men.”

Tenants with boyfriends, however, have reportedly found the policy hostile towards people who actually have a love life. Sophomore Grace Jansen, who received notice of the fee earlier this week, claims she and her boyfriend aren’t actually living together and are unfairly being charged.

“[My boyfriend] only sleeps over every night of the week, eats my roommates’ food, and takes every chance to mansplain basic household chores,” Jansen said. “But really, he doesn’t live with me.”

While the long-term effects of the fee on the countless hours of arguments between roommates are still unknown, Woodwalk Village remains steadfast in its decision to issue the fee and will begin charging its residents starting next month. Chow hopes the complex will notice an overall decrease in men at the apartment, saying, “Isn’t that what we all want?”

 

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