This is vital. Make a "housemate contract". Maybe you want the top shelf of the fridge and no one should touch stuff that is there. Or you bud has work at 6am every morning, so the tv can't be past 30 on volume after 9pm. Shared chores should be on paper. Taking out trash by turns, or cutting the grass or whatever... You never know, maybe one of your friends is a complete slob and likes to chuck toilet paper in the trash next to the toilet instead of flushing them after he wipes his *** then refuses to take out the ****in bathroom trash like a little ***** because his mom kept doing it for him andnow the little princess thinks that his friends are supposed to do it too.
This is super important if you want a chance at keeping your deposit. Do a walkthrough with the landlord or realtor, mark down everything that is even in the slight bit off/damaged/worn and
take photos. You can be damn sure the realtor is going to activate pickled fish **** mode and notice all those things plus more when you move out and charge you for them even if you didn't do the damage. Ah and also make sure that if something breaks you let them know asap so it doesn't come to the end and they charge you for it on walkout. You don't want to be stuck in a house with no AC in hotter than the devils **** florida summers anyway, right? They need to fix that ****. If they don't, then fix it yourself or hire someone but keep all the receipts and have them reimburse you. You see where I'm going with this?
You have tenants rights.. Put on the big boy pants, click that **** and read it.
Don't split the house cost by number of people. You are gonna get salty when you find out your bro is paying the same price for a room that is 15% bigger. Get a tape measure, sum the volume of all the private or non shared rooms and determine the quotient of the rooms each person will have vs total space. Multiply quotient by total cost to find how much each friend should pay for their respective areas.
Don't have one person handling all the bills. Rent, water, electricity, internet, etc. If someone complains that they have bad credit and will have to put down a big deposit to have it under their name then that means they will probably be late on their share of every bill. **** that, make them do it anyway. Write down some rules for what happens on a late bill, you don't want some ****** telling you the late charge should be split because their pappy didn't send them a check soon enough. Housemate contracts, dammit. Write that **** down. And keep this delicious nugget of fact in mind. If their names are not on the lease....
they can up and disappear at any time without any repercussion.
Change your goddamn air filters once a month, they are seriously like 50¢ at Home depot. And while you are at it get vacuuming to be on the "housemate contract" chore list. The carpet soaks up all your foot sweat, loose dandruff, pubes n crap. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there and being lifted into the air for your ******* to breathe because you can't change a goddamn 50¢ filter. Plus, if you vacuum your carpet regularly then you will have less of a problem with your realtor at the end when they try to slap a $2200 carpet replacement bill on your greasy forehead AFTER they take your deposit away to repair the ventilation air compressor that has months of foot fungus/dandruff/pubes clogged in it.
God I'm already too pissed to write the rest. ::sigh:: maybe I'll edit this later.
Listen to George Carlin