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Whether you're looking to make friends when moving to a new city or trying to save some money, living with flatmates can be enjoyable. You'll have memories to share and stories to tell for years to come. These experiences may be good or bad but most of all they will last a lifetime. It's all part of the flatmate experience!

Here are few resources to get you started to make your experience living with your flatmates easy and enjoyable.  

Advantages Of Living With Flatmates

5 Great Reasons Why People Live With Flatmates

  • Meet new people and make new friends
  • Share expenses and decrease your living costs
  • Gain independence
  • Create a second family when living far from home
  • Lets you live with people with similar interests and lifestyle, for example, near College/University with other students

Happy Flatmates!!

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Moving In With Flatmates

Articles To Help You Move In With Your Flatmates

If you need advice about setting up your new home when moving in with flatmates, take a look at these articles.
10 Essential Ingredients For Setting Up The Perfect Share House
Check out how you can create the perfect home when living with flatmates.
10 Top Tips To Remember When Moving Into Share Accommodation
Discover how moving in with flatmates is about taking a look at the "big picture".

Moving Out Of Share Accommodation

Whether your household has asked a flatmate to leave or you're ready to move into a new home, these great articles will make moving day less overwhelming.
Flatmates Moving Tips - An 8 Step Plan That Makes Moving Out Easier
Find out the key to successfully moving out when living with flatmates.
Flatmates Moving Tips - A 7 Step Guide For Asking A Flatmate To Leave
Take a look at this 7 step guide that can help you and your household when asking a flatmate to leave.
Flatmate Moving Tips - Your 14 Point Moving Day Checklist
This handy 14 point checklist that can help you make your next moving day a success.

Flatmate Finances

Articles To Help You Budget Your Money

Whether you're trying to manage your budget, solve disputes or just wish to make paying expenses easier, these articles can help you.
Flatmate Finances - How To Budget Your Money Better
Find out more about household budgets and which expenses you will need to pay when living with flatmates.
Flatmate Finances - Your Guide To Paying Flatmate Expenses
Discover how to manage and pay your expenses when living with flatmates.
Flatmate Finances - Managing Your Share Accommodation Expenses
Check out this essential guide to paying household expenses on time, every time.
Flatmate Finances - A Guide To Solving Disputes Over Share Accommodation Expenses
Learn how you and your flatmates can solve issues about household expenses.
Flatmate Finances - 10 Tips For Managing Share House Expenses
Take a look at these 10 tips that will let you and your flatmates manage your finances more easily.
Flatmate Finances - 10 Tips For Managing Your Living Expenses
Check out these 10 tips that can put money back into your pocket when living with flatmates.

Flatmate Calculators

These easy-to-use calculators can help you organise and calculate your flatmate finances. Whether you need to pay your expenses each week or month, you can create the perfect budget for your share house.
Share Accommodation Expenses Calculator
This great calculator especially designed for flatmates, lets your share house create a budget and shows how much each flatmate needs to put away for expenses each week or month.
Share Accommodation Bond Calculator
When a new flatmate moves in or out of your share house, this calculator can help you the amount of bond that needs to paid or returned.
Share Accommodation Expenses Comparison Calculator
Whether a flatmate wants to move out, your household is looking to reduce costs or you wish to compare your existing expenses to alternative living arrangements, this calculator can help you.

Dealing With Flatmate Disputes

Articles To Help You Solve Disputes In Your Household

When you're trying to solve disputes between flatmates, these articles can help your household find the right solution.
Flatmate Disputes - A 5 Step Guide To Solving Housework Disagreements
Find out the 5 steps your household can follow to solve disagreements over housekeeping.
Flatmate Disputes - Your 5 Step Guide To Solving Disagreements About Personal Possessions
Learn the way you can successfully solve disagreements about personal possessions when living with flatmates.

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Finding Flatmates

If you still on the hunt for your perfect flatmates, take a look at these Squidoo lenses about finding flatmates. It has all the info you need about writing advertisements, holding flatmate interviews and choosing the right flatmate.
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Glossary

Common Flatmate Terms

Flatmate
A person who shares an apartment or house with 1 or more person to whom they are not related. This term is commonly used in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom.

Roommate
A term commonly used to describes flatmates in the United States.

Housemate
Flatmates who share the same house.

Share Accommodation
An apartment or house where flatmates live.

Share House
A house where 2 or more flatmates live.

Flatshare
An apartment where 2 or more flatmates live.

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