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Hayley Connors couldn’t believe it last week when her flatmate, Bec, paid her rent on time. “I had just got in from work, and Bec was ...
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8 signs your flatmate has become your BAE
You’re already living together. You’ve skipped about fifteen steps in the relationship process. It’s obviously not hard to fall in love with your housemate. They’re ...
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9 Flatmate Apartment Fails You Will Certainly Experience
Are you planning on finding a flatmate? Sharing your living space with a roommate is a great life experience. Being alone is boring, and before ...
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What Is Share Accommodation?

Share accommodation is one of the most common ways people live, and also one of the least explained. Here’s everything you actually need to know, from what the term means

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Make an Offer on Your Room

You can now officially offer your sharehouse room on flatmate.com flatmate.com has incorporated the feature whereby users who are advertising a room can offer the room to a user they

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Is Your Flatmate Ad Breaking the Law?

Here’s something worth thinking about before you hit publish on your next flatmate listing. We came across a story that ...
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What do you say when you ring up or reply by email in response to the ad? “Hi, I’m writing ...
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How to Write a Flatmate Wanted Ad That Works

We have all come across a bad flatmates at some stage in our lives, whether it be hanging out with ...
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How to have THE talk with your flatmate. Yes, that talk.

You probably know where this is going, but we’ll spell it out for you slowly. When you’re in the business of flatmate-ing (get it?), you’re …

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What Is a Flatmate? (And Why Everyone Should Have One) There is a very good chance that at some point in your life, you will ...
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Moving Out? The Ultimate Flatmate Checklist
Are you getting kicked out? The letter has arrived.  You get home from work or a night out and the mail is open on the bench, ...
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The Interview: What’s it like being a flatmate in Sydney’s CBD?
We hit the streets of Sydney Melanie grew up in Sydney’s Central Coast along a prime stretch of beachside. It’s a stunning view she’s always ...
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Why Your Verified Badge on flatmate.com Could Be the Most Valuable Thing on Your Profile

Finding a flatmate isn’t just about matching budgets and suburb preferences anymore. It’s about trust. It always has been, but ...
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11 ways to protect yourself against Facebook scams

While we all love Facebook and everything it brings to our lives, we can be dangerously naïve in the way ...

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4 signs your flatmate moved out without telling you
Ever noticed something amiss upon coming home? So you’ve just got home ...
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You think your flatmate is weird?
Flatmates come in all shapes and colours.  From the very basic clean, ...
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BYO Caravan! Tackling rental affordability head-on!
Using the humble caravan to make renting more affordable While a new ...
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Why Your Verified Badge on flatmate.com Could Be the Most Valuable Thing on Your Profile
Finding a flatmate isn’t just about matching budgets and suburb preferences anymore. It’s about trust. It always has been, but the stakes have never felt ...
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