Has anyone actually ever successfully done this? Seriously I'd be interested to know, every house I know who tried this just gave up and stayed in there origional rooms.
House shares - deciding who get what room
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Has anyone actually ever successfully done this? Seriously I'd be interested to know, every house I know who tried this just gave up and stayed in there origional rooms.
We just managed to come to a decision without pulling names for this house. I am in the smallest (still double, so I don't mind) room, but am paying £20 less a month. Anything I can't fit in goes back to the grandparents.
If there are only three of you, surely you can come to a decision. Make sure allocation of space falls to uni related stuff first too if its a uni house. My housemate had the biggest room because he needs the space for his art stuff, so my drum kit stayed home. Simple.
If there are only three of you, surely you can come to a decision. Make sure allocation of space falls to uni related stuff first too if its a uni house. My housemate had the biggest room because he needs the space for his art stuff, so my drum kit stayed home. Simple.
This, though slightly different.
Example, the 3 bedroom place we are moving in to on Saturday has a huge room, big room, and standard double room.
Total rent is £1,350.
That is halved to £675 for communal areas, so a base rent of £225 each.
The area of the 3 rooms is then added, and their values worked out as a percentage and applied to the remaining £675.
This left me in the large room paying £530, my friend in the big room paying £430, and the new person in the smallest room paying £390.
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christ, that's a suicidal way of doing it!
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I like it.
This is what we did.
It's logical, maths and money go hand in hand, you can't really argue with it.
*speaks from 7.5 years renting experience in London*
It's logical, maths and money go hand in hand, you can't really argue with it.
*speaks from 7.5 years renting experience in London*
But doesn't work if you still all want largest room and willing to pay.
Just keep adjusting the figures until people drop out I guess everyone will likely have a point past which they won't go to get the biggest room.
This.
Or drinking game - last man standing gets 1st choice of room
Although this trumps all.
Indeed, but it at least makes the costing for the house fair, be crap to just draw straws and still pay the same for the smallest room as the person with the biggest room does
Indeed, but it at least makes the costing for the house fair, be crap to just draw straws and still pay the same for the smallest room as the person with the biggest room does
It's life. It's how we always did it at uni. This should off been agreed before you signed a contract though.
We did name of the rooms out of a hat and a rock/paper/scissors comp to decide who got the first pick. I won both the rock/paper/scissors and picked the biggest room!
All ours are 3 decent size double rooms, mine is bigger but we have a spare room for any stuff people can't fit in their rooms...and the spare room is still empty.
All ours are 3 decent size double rooms, mine is bigger but we have a spare room for any stuff people can't fit in their rooms...and the spare room is still empty.
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Tactically here you want to go slow and measured rather than too quickly with the downward stroke to make sure you've got the best chance of winning.
Drawing straws is probably the fairest way if you can't agree otherwise, if the room size is a major issue then see if anyone is happy to pay an extra portion towards the rent.
It was how we did it as well, I still can't believe the OP has signed a contract before agreeing either who was having which room or at least how it was to be decided. In your minds you are all imagining living there in the big rooms but in reality one of you is going to have to take the box room.