Moving long distance presents a challenge. How do you find a place to live when you aren’t there to see the place and to interview potential housemates? Some people make the trip for a weekend ahead of time and try to jam it all in and maybe they get lucky. I’m sure some do get [...]
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Money – What to Charge?
One of the first hurdles in deciding to share the home you live in is figuring out what to charge your future housemates.
Renting
When you are all renting the space, this is somewhat easy as generally people simply divide the rent by the number of persons. Occasionally a room will be significantly better or worse than [...]
Writing the ad
The ad you write needs to have six types of information:
Location
Features of the room and house
Something about who you are
What you are looking for
The financial informaton
Contact information
The location is in the subject line or headline of a paper ad. The headline should also describe the basics. It is a house, apartment, and how many people [...]