Difficult Flatmate? A Share House Guide to Trust, Safety, and Moving On

Rents are up, vacancy is tight, and the average housemate arrangement now has real stakes riding on it: your home, your sleep, your mental health, sometimes your safety, and a rental history that's not easy to rebuild if it gets bent out of shape. When a flatmate situation goes bad, a xylophone is no longer the answer.

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Interviewing potential flatmates

There are endless questions you can ask, depending on what your interests are, and also the interests of the other flatmates. They may have questions for you, depending on their interests. Don’t forget they are sussing you out, as much as you are sussing them.

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You Brought Someone Home Last Night To The Sharehouse. Should You Have Told Your Flatmates?

But somewhere between the front door and your bedroom, you walked past the kitchen, the living room, the laptop your flatmate left on the couch, and the keys hanging by the door. And your new friend, who you’ve known for approximately four hours, walked right through all of it. This is the part nobody really talks about.

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