Four Ways To Maintain Your Privacy With Roommates

February 10, 2020 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

When you need to keep your rent low, living with roommates can be the way to go. As anyone who’s had roommates knows, the budget-friendliness of roommate arrangements doesn’t necessarily equate to a comfortable living situation – common spaces such as living rooms and kitchens can quickly become messier or dirtier than you’d like, you…

Help, My Roommate’s a Vegan!

January 8, 2020 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

Roommates can make moving into your first apartment a more affordable endeavor. Whether longtime friends or people newer to your life, roommates can help make paying bills way easier, and if you’re prone to feeling lonely, you’ll have a friend you can easily hang out with at home. On the other hand, if you often…

What Is Co-Living?

November 25, 2019 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

You’ve heard of sharing an apartment with roommates – if you’re like many Americans, you’ve almost certainly done so at some point in your life. Now, get ready for what is gradually becoming a new setup for sharing apartments with other people: co-living. As you might have guessed from the fact that “co-living” is its…

What Are The Best Ways To Find New Roommates?

August 30, 2019 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

In 2017, 32 percent of the U.S. population lived in shared households. In other words, nearly one in every three Americans has a roommate or a housemate. Yet almost anyone who’s lived with other people will agree that finding someone to live with is one of the biggest challenges of looking for an apartment. Once…

What Should You Do If Your Roommate Is Moving Out?

August 27, 2019 | By Stella M AuthorMy First Apartment

Having a roommate is one of the easiest ways to keep living costs low. You’ll split the rent and utilities, and you might share responsibilities for stocking household goods. If you’re especially apt on making your roommate situation as financially fair as possible, you might just wind up splitting all expenses with your roommate –…

What Makes a Good Roommate?

July 28, 2018 | By Marisa AuthorMy First Apartment

Living with someone is a huge commitment; you have to share space, interact and deal with finances together. Sometimes you are thrown into a situation where you don’t have a choice of who you live with, but for when you do have a choice, you may be wondering – what makes a good roommate? Good…

Quick Guide to Living With Siblings

June 10, 2018 | By Sarah AuthorMy First Apartment

Moving into your first apartment can be made easier if you have siblings who have already forged the path for you! Living with siblings, whether they are older and more established or around the same stage of life as you, can help mitigate the cost of living alone and add some fun to your situation.…

Moving In with New Roommates

May 29, 2018 | By Sarah AuthorMy First Apartment

Living with roommates is a rite of passage for many first apartment dwellers and a great way to make moving out on your own more affordable. Often, you get together with friends, find a place, and all move in together, but what do you do when you find the perfect place that already has roommates…

Confronting Annoying Roommate Habits

February 22, 2018 | By Sarah AuthorMy First Apartment

There are perks of living with a roommate… and for a lot of people, splitting bills is at the top of the list. The happy-go-lucky roommate situations that grace television shows are much more rare than the roommates that simply live together instead of sharing their entire lives. That’s no problem! But, what happens when you…

The Art of Rejecting A Potential Roommate

November 2, 2017 | By Sarah AuthorMy First Apartment

Once you move into your first place, like clockwork, you will likely hear from a friend or a friend of a friend who asks if they can move in with you for a short time. Maybe they’re between jobs or almost have enough money to move into their first place, or are simply looking for…