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Sharing a flat with someone has never been more fun and practical when you do it with someone whom you have a lot of common interests. At first, it was not entirely easy with the number of adjustments we had to make. Not only are you going to share a house, but more importantly, you are going to share a home with which you both live in. After reading into iFlatShare.com, it has never been easier. iFlatShare.com shared a lot of insights for us flat sharers that could only be deemed trustworthy and successful. Continue reading

This is the third part of the three part article entitled GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE, called the GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE PT.3, where you will know what the steps to take in getting rid of a roommate or a flatmate when he or she stops being a help you to and ends up as a nuisance or an annoying flatmate.  Here are some of the tips that you could follow if you want to get rid of your annoying flatmate with a real nerve.  In the second instalment of this series of articles, we have talked about the easiest and most direct way of informing that annoying flatmate or roommate of yours that you do not want to share food or anything with him or her.  We have also talked about the things that you could do to make sure that he or she does not have a legal claim on your pad of flat, or else you will have more problems on your hands and a fuller plate of things to do instead of being rid of it. Continue reading

This is the second part of the three part article entitled GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE, called the GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE PT.2, where you will learn how to get rid of a roommate or a flatmate when he or she stops being a help you to and ends up as a nuisance or an annoying flatmate.  Here are some of the tips that you could follow if you want to get rid of your annoying flatmate with a real nerve.  In the first instalment of the article, we talked about some of the advantages that you are bound to enjoy when you have a flatmate or a roommate.  However, there are times when you do not get along with your roommate whatever you do, and you could not blame anyone for it, not even your roommate.  Continue reading

This is the first part of the three part article entitled GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE, called the GETTING RID OF A FLATMATE PT.1, where you will learn how to get rid of a roommate or a flatmate when he or she stops being a help you to and ends up as a nuisance or an annoying flatmate.

One of the perks of having a roommate or a flatmate is that you have someone to share the load and the expenses that is brought upon by living away from the comforts of the home where you grew up and away from the protective sphere built and maintained around you by your parents.  When you have a roommate or a flatmate, you can ask someone to help you do the dishes and help you clean the house, but if you are all alone in the flat that you are renting, you will have to deal with the cleaning and the washing and the maintenance all by yourself.  Also, when you have a roommate, you can share the bills that you have to pay with them; be it electricity, water or gas.  You could also share the rent of the flat with your roommate, so you would not have to pay it in full all by yourself, because you have someone to take over the other half or the other quarters of the full payment.

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Sharing a house with your friends or your officemates is probably one of the best things in the world.  Not only because you would be living with your best girlfriends or your officemates would who are closest to you but you also be sharing expenses with them.  Living with your friends or officemates is not just a great way to bond and spend time with them, it is also a nice way of allowing you to save more money and spend less, what with all the bills and the food that you could share with each other.   When you are a sharing a house with your friends or officemates, you could also afford to rent those apartments and spaces which are nice and located in a safe neighbourhood.  You could surely avoid those apartments which do not pass the building code and the safety that you require. Continue reading

Bad roommates or flatmates are probably one of the worst things that you could ever come across with in your years of living in a common apartment and trying to be independent from your parents, aside from condemned buildings, increase in monthly rents and land lords and land ladies from hell of course.  Anyway, if you are one of those people who very much like to kick their bad roommates out but could not do it for one reason or another, here are some of the tips that you could follow so that you kick out your bad roommate or bad roommates without much fuss and without further ado. Continue reading

Nowadays, it is really, really practical to have someone to share with when it comes to expenses and anything that would only be good to share, such as doing carpools, sharing on a box of pizza that you will not be able to consume entirely and, the best of all, sharing in house rentals.  If you do the sharing that I am talking about, you would be able to save a lot of money, which you can use to buy many other things.

However, looking for roommates is really not that easy.  And a lot worse than that is the fact that it is far more difficult to find a roommate that you can trust and can go along nicely with and who you can be comfortable with.  And if it is that hard to find a roommate, then what would happen to your plans of spending less and saving more, nothing.  You would not be able to save more because you will surely be spending less. Continue reading

Here are some of the tips that you might want to check out and follow when it comes to dealing with your college roommates.  You could do this to maintain some peace and quiet in your dorm or in your apartment.

One of the first things that you would need to do is to get to know your new college roommate.  You would not have a hard time doing it especially if you exert effort in doing this.  You could also do this by talking to him or her and by knowing what his or interests are and his or her likes and dislikes.  By doing this, you would be able to build a rapport and that could become the bridge that would connect you to each other.  There is also nothing wrong in choosing to befriend someone who you are going to be living with for a year and for at least a few months.  Continue reading

Having someone to share things with is a really nice thing, and having someone to share things such as bills payment, rental payment and food expenses is even better.  Of course, I am talking about none other than finding a roommate that you could share the rent with and all the other bills with, such as: water bills, electrical bills and gas bills.  And when you have a roommate, you just do not have someone to share the expenses with, you also have someone to talk to when you are both stuck in your room.  And when you hit a common denominator or a common belief in life, that roommate of your that you share expenses and a few bonding moments with could potentially be your long – time friend, and such thing is really, really possible. Continue reading

Here are just some of the most common and highly possible topics that could be of great concern between college roommates.

One of the issue that could raise concerns between college roommates is the food.  Well, having access to each other’s foods is relatively easy because you all live under the same roof, and because you trust that no one will eat the food of the other without the permission or the knowledge of the other.  However, there are still times when your food looks more appealing to the eyes and mouth of your roommate than his own food.  There would be nothing much to it if he buys the same food for himself and he keeps is hands off yours.  But what if instead of buying, he just eats your food.  Then that would be where the problem would start.  When this happens, one of the things that you could do is to label your own food cartons and trays, and to make sure that your food do not get mixed up with his.  You could even resort to hiding and locking your food inside your own ref or cabinet is he still eats your food despite the labels and the shelf designations. Continue reading