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[[Image:Bulletin.jpg|thumb|250px|bulletin boards are often used to advertise for housemates]]
 
[[Image:Bulletin.jpg|thumb|250px|bulletin boards are often used to advertise for housemates]]
A '''housemate''' is anyone with whom you share a house. The term is sometime used for people that share an apartment or other type of dwelling than a house. Other terms for housemate are roommate or flatmate. These terms are not usually used for a [[family]] member.
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A '''housemate''' is anyone with whom you share a house. The term is sometime used for people that share an apartment or other type of dwelling than a house. Other terms for housemate are roommate or flatmate. These terms are not usually used for a [[family]] member, even when technically, the family member shares a home, so is a housemate.
 
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People find housemates in order to have company, to share costs, to try out living together before making a more formal relationship.
 
People find housemates in order to have company, to share costs, to try out living together before making a more formal relationship.
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==Related==
 
==Related==
 
* [[resident]]
 
* [[resident]]
* [[guests]]
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==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 19:34, 12 October 2008

Bulletin

bulletin boards are often used to advertise for housemates

A housemate is anyone with whom you share a house. The term is sometime used for people that share an apartment or other type of dwelling than a house. Other terms for housemate are roommate or flatmate. These terms are not usually used for a family member, even when technically, the family member shares a home, so is a housemate.

People find housemates in order to have company, to share costs, to try out living together before making a more formal relationship.

Flatmate

billboard ad for "no more weird flatmates"

Some of the things to discuss and decide before you agree to be housemates are

  • distribution of costs -- rent, utility bills, phone bills, etc.
  • how to distribute the household chores
  • how often each will do the household chores
  • what will be shared? food? furniture? which rooms or space?
  • quiet hours, noise levels
  • joint or individual parties
  • guests, especially overnight guests
  • privacy
  • general levels of cleanliness and clutter

Related

References