Appartement

Whether these peopel have been friends of yours for a long time, or you have known them for only a short while, i would persuade you to all sit down and have a house meeting, and go over guidelines. Some topics to cover should include, starting with the obvious: **how rent/utilities etc will be split up and paid...make sure to have in writing with signatures how you will be dividing the expenses and exactly what dates the money is to be collected by and how the payments will be made..this is an important one, as it is where most problems with having roomates occurs!! **Food....are you going to do it family style, where all of you pitch in money and do one big grocery shopping for the house? or are you each going to be repsponsible for your own food? Will their be communal basics, such as milk, sugar, coffee, etc that everyone can use and you take turns buying them? Or will you all purchase all your own things? Either way, i would reccommend discussing that if there is something in the fridge or cupboard that you bought specificly for yourself...you should put your names on them, and that means no one else should touch them with out permission. It really sucks to buy yourself some little treat and put it in the fridge, only to come home and find that someone else devoured it! **cleaning....obviously each person should be responsible for their own bedrooms, but how are you going to split up other chores,such as dishes, cleaning the bathroom, vaccuuming and sweeping, etc. Do you all want to pick one day a week where you each set aside a couple of hours and do all the cleaning at once? Or would setting up a rotating schedule where one is in charge of the kitchen, one the bathroom, and one the other communal areas of the house each week, then switch the next so one person isn't always stuck cleaning the toilets? **household supplies: what about thign everyone uses such as toilet paper? dish soap? cleaning supplies? are these goig to be included in your combined grocery shopping, or should everyone pitch in a small amount of money each month and stock up on all the supplies you will need. ** Communal areas when it comes to areas of the house you all share, how will you share them? Should each person be responsible for not leaving their belongings laying around the house and pick them up each night? or is a little clutter ok with all of you? What about TV habits? **Visitors and noise....obviously, if you guys are in school, at some point in time you will have studying to do...and tcramming for that midterm tomorrow can be difficult if your housemate decides to have a bunch of people over to watch the football game that night....how do you wish to handle things like this? also under this category would be overnight guests...do all parties need to be informed if someone is staying over? It can cause quite a fright if you get up to go pee in the middle of the night and run into a stranger walking out of your bathroom I know this sounds like a lot of rules and stuff....but these are all things you should sit down and talk about. I have had many roomates in the past, and these are all things that cause drama and issues at some point and time. I would also maybe reccommend having a monthly "house meeting" maybe set for the last day of each month when you can all get together, talk about any issues or concerns, go over th bills, collect and compile money..and then just hang out and have a good time with just the three of you to keep your frindship going! I know college life can get crazy and busy..and beleive t or not, even with thre of you living in the house, there will probably be ties when you don't see either of your roomates for a few days! Best of luck, i hope it all works out for oyu, and i hope some of these suggestions are helpful!

Many of us thinks, when we get away from home we are free. Free to do whatever we like, whenever we like and so on. But what many of us don't understand is that, we also takes the problems, more problems and more responsibilities when we move and start living on our own. If you've known your friends a long time, then i guess you won't have much trouble living together. Because when there is trouble living together, it affects you every other aspects of life. So, develop mutual respects between your room mates. Understand each other, then life will be fun and memorable. Apart from that, passing exams will depend entirely on you. So, if you have trouble studying at your room, try to make a habit to visit library every day where you can study undisturbed, rest of the day you an enjoy. :) Good luck

What is your question? You want guidelines for apartment living, like doing dishes? or are you asking for guidelines for this site as what to do? Let me know I can help you on either one! LOL! tdemex