My living situation is rough right now. I've got a year left on my lease, but my roommate is insane, dangerous, and unpredictable. Yesterday evening he stormed upstairs to scream at me for locking the front door when he previously had screamed at another roommate for leaving the door unlocked. It escalated to physical threats and him trying to force me into a fistfight with him.
He assumes everything is malicious. In his mind, I locked the door to spite him because he was outside. In reality, I locked the door because I saw it was unlocked and thought that I had accidentally forgotten to lock it when I came in earlier.
Months ago, he nearly attacked another roommate, J, because he was convinced that J broke into the landlord's lockbox with the spare key to the crazy roommate's private bathroom, unlocked the door to the bathroom, broke back into the landlord's lockbox, put the key back, all just to fuck with him. All this insane shit he believed whole-heartedly because when he came home his bathroom was unlocked. He would rather jump to insane conclusions about malicious people out to get him than ever even consider that he might have just not locked the bathroom door properly one time. And his response to all of this was to scream at J and threaten to put him in the ER. When all that happened was he forgot to lock his own damn bathroom.
He also goes into a rage whenever he hears noises of any kind coming from upstairs. So I can't even walk from one side of my room to another without risking him storming upstairs to try and start shit. I stopped playing my instruments over a month ago because it sets him off. I've stopped being able to sing, or move about in my room. I can't even sit and read because the floor in my room is creaky and just shifting my weight can make a noise.
I've been trying to get my landlord to let me out of my lease because of this fucking lunatic I'm living with, but they're demanding police reports as proof, and are saying even with police reports they might not let me out of the lease. Even though calling the police will escalate the situation, because--unless I end up calling 911 because he's physically attacking someone or has shot at them--after the police leave I'll still be living in the same house as him, and he's already decided that I'm actively out to get him because the landlord did an inspection and told him he was violating the lease by smoking inside, which is somehow all my fault and he thinks I'm trying to get him thrown out on the street. All calling the cops will do is make him more angry, and given that he and the other 2 roommates are black there's also the very real risk that calling the cops could get any one of them killed.
I'm trying to gather evidence outside of those police reports, but the best I can do right now is one audio recording of him going off and I'm trying to get a letter from my therapist that the home I'm living in is unsafe, but I don't know how much weight that will carry.
And then there's the fact that my lease termination has to be approved between the 1st and the 14th or I'll be charged rent for the month after I leave even though the lease would have been terminated before then so it looks like I'm going to have to wait until next month to even try because I don't know if I'll be able to get the documents I need before the 15th, and even then the landlord could delay terminating the lease for a few days so I functionally have to submit evidence by the 9th or earlier... which is today and I don't have it. And delaying the termination will make it look less serious because I waited...
Oh, and since the lease termination may not even happen, I can't sign a lease for a new place yet because I don't know if I'll even be able to leave anytime in the next 12 months, and I sure as hell can't afford paying rent here and somewhere else at the same time. And it's not like I can find someone to take over my lease, because what do I tell them? That I'm moving out because one of the roommates is insane, violent, assumes everyone is malicious and out to get him, demands everyone do what he wants but will not do anything asked of him, and oh, yeah, he has a gun? How the fuck am I supposed to convince someone to live here?
I'm just so seriously fucked right now. And my finances are really tight, too, I've got a bunch of credit card debt because I had to get new tires for my car, and the exhaust pipe sheared in half abs I had to get that fixed too, and lots of medical expenses and it's just a fucking nightmare. And no support system, I'm no-contact with my family and I don't really know anyone locally... it's just really rough.