The roomie ended up tynirg to throw me downstairs; the police arrested him but couldn't make charges stick because my friends were all cowering in the living room rather than coming to my aid, thus preventing them from being witnesses to the event I did lose the house but got an apartment the co-op president gave the roomie a 2-bedroom apartment in the same building But if the ex-roomie says two words to me now I can get a restraining order against him at least, as everything was documented at the time, including the bruises he left me with.