Former housemate
Last year, we were 2 housemates short of filling the 5-bedroomed house we wanted to rent (we spent the whole year 1 housemate down but the landlord was great and didn't charge the 'missing' rent). After much advertising and asking around, this guy showed up. Mr Sanity Challenged showed him around, we knew a few people who knew him and gave us good character reports, all in all he appeared to be quite a nice guy.

Then he moved in. What our friends hadn't told us is that the guy stank - apparantly, at the radio station were he used to DJ, the people in the timeslot after him stopped DJing because of the lingering stench. It appears he'd showered the day he came to see the house, 'cos after he moved in, the shower visits became less and less frequent. It started at maybe 2 or 3 a week (pretty grim, but not unreasonable). By the time he left we estimate he hadn't showered in at least 2 months. In addition, he rarely flushed the loo - if you went in after him, you had to prepare for a nasty suprise. He didn't wash his clothes much and didn't even have a sheet on the bed (there was a duvet and pillow covers but these didn't get washed once in the year he lived with us). I don't believe that he cut his toenails as they could be found, huge yellow manky things, broken off on the sofa. His diet consisted of takeaways, toast and cups of tea. You had to ensure his bedroom door stayed shut as not only did you not want to see the state of it in there, the smell used to waft out and fill the house.

It's a shame his personal hygiene was so poor - had we been able to stand near him for longer than a couple of minutes we might have found out he was as nice as he'd first appeared. As it was we more or less avoided him totally unless we needed his money for rent or bills (never of which he was willing to cough up).

He went back to live with his mum in the end. The house now has 5 guys in it, all with hygiene standards emulating his.
(sanity challenged, Thu 22 Mar 2007, 16:05, Reply)