Where do you currently live?
Why are you leaving that flat/house?
Do you smoke?
How will you be paying your share of the rent?
Will I awake at dawn to find you straddling me, axe held aloft with a maniacal expression on your face?
I would ask general questions and find out what type of lifestyle they will bring to the house as it will affect you quite a bit.Depending on what type of person you are you may want the one who is similar to you or the complete opposite.
Whoever you pick, choose one with the least nasty habits
Ask what they believe their duties will be around the house.
My friend lives with me and I find that it's always me doing the household jobs even though it's just as much her duty as it is mine.. it does my head in but I never know how to bring it up without making a fuss.
It's best to clarify these things BEFORE they move in.. you should be more fortunate in the fact that a lodger won't be a friend so it doesn't matter if you fall out or owt.
what kind of music do they like/do they like going out? (may give an indication of music thumping from there room at godawful hours or them rolling in pissed out their heads at random hours slamming cupboards shut and dropping a frying pan whilst they try and make a bacon butty)
what do they do (for a job) and what are their hobbies (do they workout/have a hobby requiring them to be out a lot?) - some people want flatmates that won't be there much, some want to make new friends
Do you plan to have sex in the kitchen sink with the bloke you picked up over the pub half an hour ago ?
Have you, or are you planning to, fall out with a female colleague at work ( due to shagging her husband ) ?
If so, is she likely to spend the next three months phoning the flat number over and over ad nauseum from 1 - 4 am every night and then hanging up immediately ?
If so, are you going to get out of your pit and answer the phone or are you going to just ignore it so that your pathetic flatmates have to get up and do so ?
Are you going to watch out of the window waiting for your flatmates and their boyfriends ( or worse, mothers ) to come home and then arrange yourself suggestively on the settee, legs akimbo, fanny on show for all to see, pretending you are asleep ?
Are you going to watch out of the window waiting for your flatmates and their boyfriends ( or worse, mothers ) to come home and then arrange yourself suggestively on the settee, legs akimbo, fanny on show for all to see, pretending you are asleep ?
"So tell me, Cameron, what on earth -- just tell me, because I want to know -- what on earth could make you think that we would want to share a flat like this with someone like you?"
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Why are you leaving that flat/house?
Do you smoke?
How will you be paying your share of the rent?
Will I awake at dawn to find you straddling me, axe held aloft with a maniacal expression on your face?
Whoever you pick, choose one with the least nasty habits
Can they provide you with a ref from an ex landlord
I don't want to ask the wrong type of questions... Been living by myself for almost 2 years so this is all very nail bitting.
seriously I had a housemate who used to do that...regularly.
If they have a history of killing flatmates.
And if you fancy them, ask if they mind sharing a shower.
Glad to be of help!
If some bloke who looks like Keith Allen turns up the next day .... don't even let him in!
:cool:
My friend lives with me and I find that it's always me doing the household jobs even though it's just as much her duty as it is mine.. it does my head in but I never know how to bring it up without making a fuss.
It's best to clarify these things BEFORE they move in.. you should be more fortunate in the fact that a lodger won't be a friend so it doesn't matter if you fall out or owt.
what do they do (for a job) and what are their hobbies (do they workout/have a hobby requiring them to be out a lot?) - some people want flatmates that won't be there much, some want to make new friends
Have you, or are you planning to, fall out with a female colleague at work ( due to shagging her husband ) ?
If so, is she likely to spend the next three months phoning the flat number over and over ad nauseum from 1 - 4 am every night and then hanging up immediately ?
If so, are you going to get out of your pit and answer the phone or are you going to just ignore it so that your pathetic flatmates have to get up and do so ?
Are you going to watch out of the window waiting for your flatmates and their boyfriends ( or worse, mothers ) to come home and then arrange yourself suggestively on the settee, legs akimbo, fanny on show for all to see, pretending you are asleep ?
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LOL, I'll remember that one for the future *giggle*
Now THAT is an odd one.
"So tell me, Cameron, what on earth -- just tell me, because I want to know -- what on earth could make you think that we would want to share a flat like this with someone like you?"