The document provides tips for living successfully with roommates. It recommends defining house rules in advance for resolving conflicts, understanding how each roommate defines "clean", making a chore list and sticking to it, ensuring similar financial situations and spending habits, addressing problems right away before they escalate, clarifying cleaning standards, and maintaining open communication through regular check-ins. Living with roommates requires establishing expectations, dividing responsibilities clearly, and addressing issues promptly.

1. Tips for Living with
Roommates Successfully
Presented by:
Templeton Properties

2. Define in advance the
house rules for what to do
when there’s a conflict.

3. Make sure to understand
what each of you defines as
clean. If you don’t it can be
the root of many issues.

4. Make a list of who does
what “chores” in the
apartment and stick to it.

5. Live with someone whose
financial situation and
spending habits are
similar to yours.

6. Don’t borrow money from
or lend money to your
roommate. No, no, no.

7. Make sure bills are
handled equally so each
person has a say in what
is spent.

8. A weekly check-in with
how things are doing will
go a long way to support
good communication.

9. If there’s a problem, address
it right away. Don’t let it have
time to get worse.

10. If there’s a problem,
address it right away.
Don’t let it have time to
get worse.

11. Find out whether you have
similar lifestyles in
advance of deciding to live
together.

12. Let yourself trust that your
roomie really does have good
intentions, even when it may
not seem so.

13. Be proactive. Don’t wait
for your roommate to do
“his share” of the work. If it
needs doing, do it.

14. Talk about it. Even simply
asking “how was your day”
makes it easier to get along.

15. Clarify what each roommate
defines as “clean” –
otherwise you could be in for
trouble.

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