Anyone gone to live in 'random' flatshare?

moved in with a jekyll and hyde bloke who was great when he was drunk but a dick most of the time and he made sure he let someone move in who he was twice the size of so he knew he could intimidate them etc. ( i suppose i can see why as it was his house)

he did let me have women round and thats probably why we didnt get on all that well we probably kept him up lol.

Meet the person first in a pub have a couple pints and get a feel for them, ask plenty of questions and make sure you have a lot in common, if you dont then move onto someone else, if you get on then sure give it a try. i would advise to see if you can get the shortest lease possible as 6 months is standard and it could be a long 6 months if you dont get on and they are never out of the house.
 
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Do you mean moving in with strangers? I did it once at Uni and it was fine. You're in Edinburgh aren't you? Avoid the places you'd normally avoid and you might should be ok.
 
[FnG]magnolia;24017841 said:
Do you mean moving in with strangers? I did it once at Uni and it was fine. You're in Edinburgh aren't you? Avoid the places you'd normally avoid and you might should be ok.
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Might. Sounds a bit grim?
 
Yeah, total strangers was a mistake. Didn't end up getting on with them and it caused no end of agro.

The next year I met up with my potential housemates first, realised they were much nicer people and everything went smoothly.
 
i ended up living with 3 randoms, one who i had met for 15 minutes, in my first year at uni. Yeah they were students so its a bit different. No regrets tho, I got lucky.
 
3rd year we had one random fill the spare room for a year, at no point over the year did he purchase a single roll of toilet paper and managed to use a whole roll in one sitting (he had 2 poo's a week, you knew when it happened).

9 months of having your own roll of toilet roll and avoiding one toilet (and keeping your own toiletries under the bed) was enough to remember not to do it again. Especially when you saw the floating newspaper used instead.

Cleaned his room when he moved out too (couldn't be bothered listening to any arguments on the last day about deposit refunds), that was an interesting event seeing how someone can live in mould over an entire year!

A mate of maine spent all of last year living in a single room of a 6 room house in mk, 5 very foreign people (as he put it) drove him up the wall (usually petty things about levels of cleaning which is silly). Then again he hates other people normally...
 
More times then not I have house-shared with strangers, but it is pretty easy to vet when meeting them if they are dodgy or not. Never had any issues in 8 years of sharing.
 
pingwing said:
3rd year we had one random fill the spare room for a year, at no point over the year did he purchase a single roll of toilet paper and managed to use a whole roll in one sitting (he had 2 poo's a week, you knew when it happened).
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:eek: I bet that's how he looked!
 
I have and wouldn't again, the girl seemed nice enough when we went for a coffee so decided to move in.

I should have backed out when her boyfriend helped carry my stuff to my room and I found out he lived there too which she hadn't mentioned before, I had asked her if anyone else lived at the flat when we met and she said no.
It went downhill from there, the three wardrobes in my room turned out to be full of their stuff, well almost full they had cleared out half of one for my things, when I asked her she said "I didn't think you'd have that much", I know I'm a guy but most guys I know have more than half a wardrobe of clothes.

The first morning there while still in bed I had a knock on my door asking if they could come in my room to get their clothes. During the time I was there sometimes they didn't even knock despite telling them it was out of order and they shouldn't have let the room if they were going to wander in and out of their own accord.

One day I came home from work to find she had entered my room without my permission and had rearranged the furniture and cleaned. I don't mean moved while she cleaned, cupboards and tables were in different parts of the room and my things had been emptied from them and put back in. I wasn't best pleased but when I spoke to her about it she didn't see what the problem was.

She scored the bottom of my frying pan by cutting things in it with a serrated knife.

They didn't want to socialise at all and seemed to live to work 12h days.

When the girl went away to visit her parents the guy must have either got the squits or became a fapping machine as we went through multiple toilet rolls during the week.

I ended up moving out as soon as I could find a better place as it was a nightmare.
 
Moved in with strangers last year due to a new job doing an internship so not a lot of money especially for the area (Ascot)

Doesnt bother me but took a while to find a place i liked. Landlord is great, cleaner ever monday for shared bits of the house, ensuite, off road parking, Everything included in my rent (heating, water, sky HD, internet) for half the price of what id pay for a rubbish 1 bed flat.

People i live with are also full time workers so everyone has the same work ethic etc... Only every really see them when i want to becaause everyone is out doing their own things at weekends and evenings.

Don't see why people are so against it tbh aslong as you do your homework and pick the right place for you. :)
 
pingwing said:
3rd year we had one random fill the spare room for a year, at no point over the year did he purchase a single roll of toilet paper and managed to use a whole roll in one sitting (he had 2 poo's a week, you knew when it happened).

9 months of having your own roll of toilet roll and avoiding one toilet (and keeping your own toiletries under the bed) was enough to remember not to do it again. Especially when you saw the floating newspaper used instead.

Cleaned his room when he moved out too (couldn't be bothered listening to any arguments on the last day about deposit refunds), that was an interesting event seeing how someone can live in mould over an entire year!
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Jesus Horatio Christ. What is wrong with people?
 
moved in with loads of total strangers and amde friends with every one of them.

Flat viewing isn't just a chance to find a decent place to live, it's to see if you're compatible with your flatmates too.
 
I did at uni...9 years ago now :eek: Didn't know who I was living with until I arrived at halls on the day. Apart from one of the girls (turned out to be a loonatic) we all got on really well and I now consider them to be some of my closest friends. I'm a bridesmaid at one of their weddings this year.
 
t.oldaker said:
Moved in with strangers last year due to a new job doing an internship so not a lot of money especially for the area (Ascot)

Doesnt bother me but took a while to find a place i liked. Landlord is great, cleaner ever monday for shared bits of the house, ensuite, off road parking, Everything included in my rent (heating, water, sky HD, internet) for half the price of what id pay for a rubbish 1 bed flat.

People i live with are also full time workers so everyone has the same work ethic etc... Only every really see them when i want to becaause everyone is out doing their own things at weekends and evenings.

Don't see why people are so against it tbh aslong as you do your homework and pick the right place for you. :)
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It's great when there's harmony - there's no doubt. My week at my nightmare place was actually one of the best. It's when a dischord moves in, that's when it goes pear shape.
 
Am going to have to go through this process in the coming month. I'd rather live with friends but they cannot do so until September.

It's a bit daunting really, finding places is easy, but I don't want to be tied into a 6/12 month contract only to discover that after an initial meet the people you thought were cool to move in with are infact not your people at all.

I prefer a social household and this is going to be the biggest worry, more so than trusting my stuff/room will be kept untouched in the house when I'm not there!
 
I did many many years ago and had some really good flat mates with some amazing memories.

However things did go wrong at one point when when 2 of my flat mates turned out to be junkies, all sorts of crazy stuff happened including a cat eating a chinchilla, me finding a gun and setting it off by accident.......

log story sort I decided I need to find a way to make some money so that I can afford my own place and then went on to do quite well out of my idea.
 
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