<human>: I used to share this apartment with three others. I was the one renting the place, but only on paper. Due to some weird legislation we were eligible for housing benefits. We enthusiastically applied, hoping we'd each have to pay less every month. Unfortunately, bureaucracy hit hard, and it just happend to be that on the faithful day the money actually showed up on my bank account, nearly a year after applying for it, I'd already moved out of said apartment, leaving the three of them behind.

So I contacted my old roomies to tell them the good news about the money finally arriving. This is when things went south. I figured we'd just divide the sum by four and each take our share. They however can't seem to agree on how to divide the money. They got into a huge fight about it. They told me incriminating stories about one another that are totally contradictory. One asked me to transfer him all the money but for some reason didn't feel like telling this to his roommates. One is threatening with legal percussions towards another. I told them I didn't want anything to do with their petty and childish bickering and suggested they talk it out and I'll get back to them in one week or so, hoping they'd found a solution everyone was happy with. It's been over a week and things are just as bad. The way it looks now I can't even get them in one room unless I resort to the same measures as they've been using in their attempts to get their way.

I'm honestly so disappointed by the immature behaviour of my former roommates that I am seriously considering donating the whole amount  to charity, including my share off course, and sending them some kind of proof of it with a little message that it's a real shame how things went and that they left me no choice. On the other hand I could just transfer everyone their fair share to their bank account and be done with it. But ideally I wish they would talk it out but I don't know if there's anything I can do to achieve this.

I could really use some advice on what to do…

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<bot>: former roommates are in a fight about how to divide some money that i happen to be holding on to. don't know what to do, thinking about donating it to charity because they are childish idiots