I am buying a house and have three friends that will be moving in with me
By oscarbartoni
@oscarbartoni (2581)
United States
November 27, 2011 8:51pm CST
I need to know what huse rules that we shoud have to be able to live together with out becoming enemies. One that we agree on is no smoking in the house. Two is everyone has to put their share of the bill money in the bank account (mortage, utilities and other mutually used things) by the first of the month. We will have our own bank account for our own uses.at least two of us enjoy gardening and it will be organic as possible. Can you give me more suggestions that we should have to stay united as a family group in this new house. We are hoping to move in by Christmas.
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@jricky1 (6797)
• China
28 Nov 11
Living with friends sometimes could a good thing.We can share happiness and sadness together.Anyway,there would also have some problems,but i think having rules can be worked,Overall,it is still good to live with someone you know rather than you don't.Have a nice day.
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@lilaclady (28206)
• Australia
28 Nov 11
I have a friend who always rented out her spare bedroom and from what I have seen it was always the phone bill that caused all the problems, with her last boarder they used to write down all their calls and yet it never did tally up, but these days maybe everyone has their own mobiles...
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Nov 11
hi then you need to divide all the bills like house payt, electric and gas and water equally otherwise this is not going to work. also
' each person should be responsible for his share of the food no smoking and quests should be discussed and agreed on before just bringing someone in. I would suggest that among four people you all should take turns cooking and cleaning up the kitchen too. also all should be mindful if coming in late at night not to wake up others who may be sleeping and must work the next day . I think common sense and friendship will help you to figure out things in a way that will keep your friendships intact.
@GemmaR (8517)
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28 Nov 11
It is important to agree on all of the rules before moving in, as it can be problematic if people suddenly decide on rules when they move in that the others don't agree with. You need to decide whether you're going to be sharing food, or whether you'll be buying food for yourselves and cooking as individuals. Something will happen so that one of you is spending more money than the rest of you, and this is something that you should discuss how you will sort it out if it should happen. It might make sense to get them to sign contracts as tenants so that they pay you a fixed amount of rent and bill money each month.
@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
28 Nov 11
One of the people that will be moving in with me is my Native American wife plus her best friend and her Native American husband. I have set up a bank account to pay the mortage plus the other monthly shared bills such as tv, cable internet (these are bundled together from ne company) and the other utilities. Each of us will have to kick in an ammount each month to pay all of these bills. as far as the cabe bill, some of us might wish to have extra channels in which case everyone will be able to see them so should we share the cost of the extra channels or should the one that wishes it have to pay the difference? I also want to have a DVR (rented from the cable company) so I know that I need to pay the difference for that. We will discuss the diatary needs of each of us as one is a diabitic and one is glutten intollerent.
What I am trying to lfigure out is what other things do we neeed to discuss and put on paper before we move in together? Any things that will help make our friendships work out long term.
@cibbo27 (2)
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28 Nov 11
Hmmm... first of all you should buy a cook so that the problem of cooking food can be solved, after that the one who can wash out the clothes. Should make some proper rules of the expenditure of the home like a small note book. It avoids mis conceptions which happens when it comes the time to pay. you all can enjoy like a family together by simply avoiding the silly things which happens in the daily life. Further more choose your room partners which understands you more, who helps you sometime in gardening too.
