honesty

Messy Housemates

Sometimes I find myself grumbling about mess in the house, something along the lines of “Why doesn’t he EVER clean up after himself?”  Years of experience have taught me to look again. Oh, I say to myself, “That’s mine and that’s mine and that’s mine..” It is a very natural human tendency to look at [...]

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Avoiding nightmare housemates

I’ve just read an article on Helium about nightmare housemates. It’s enough to make one think that sharing housing is a bad idea.  It isn’t. There are plenty of wonderful people out there who are great housemates. What makes a housemate a nightmare? Self-centeredness. Plain and simple. The nightmare housemate breaks agreements and/or refuses to [...]

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Interviewing – The “Must Haves” Simplify Things

Your goal in the initial phone call is to determine if there is enough of a match to spend time showing and looking at the space. You should have a clear idea of what you MUST have in a housemate and living situation. What you must have is very different from what you would like [...]

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Know Yourself!

To thine own self be true The absolute most important part of finding housemates that you want to keep is being really, really honest with yourself and others about who you are and what you can and want to live with. This is NOT the time to wish you were different. Do not believe you [...]

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