Can 4 very good friends share 1 small, cheap, apartment?

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Falcon39
So I take it the majority of people here have never been to university? This is how most students live. You'll love it. The biggest drawback if you don't happen to be part of the couple of the sound of them pounding at night.

I'm at university, and we have a 4 bedroom, 1 kitchen, 1 other room, 1 shower/shitter, 1 extra shitter signed ready for next year. Plus garden with a shed and greenhouse.
So we're not planning on living like that (there's 4 of us).
4 people should be able to afford something more reasonable surely?

 

[FleshLight]

For 4 ppl you'll need at least 1.5 bath.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Sure, why not? Everything always works out in the end.

 

[thomsbrain]

as part of a couple who also lives with one other housemate, i'd recommend against it! the problem is we are basically living as a unit, starting a "family" (us and our cat, anyway), and that automatically makes our housemate the outsider, the odd one out. everything is viewed by everyone as being hers or ours, not as three individual people. so there's "P and C's dishes vs. K's dishes," "P and C's laundry vs. K's laundry," "P and C's guests vs. K's guests," etc.

the fact is we realized really quickly we don't like living with someone else in the house, because she is intruding on "our" space. i know that's horrible, but it's inevitable because within the couple, we don't mind each other's messes or get pissy about housework or anything, because we see ourselves as one unit. but we can't help but get pissy about our housemate's dishes, etc. and she gets pissy about our dishes in a me vs. them manner, too. the result is our housemate never does ANYTHING around the house because she views any given chore as being 2/3 OUR responsibility and only 1/3 her responsiblity. so she has literally never taken the trash out, never cleaned the bathroom or kitchen, never washed the communal dishes, and leave us to do all of those things. and because she insists on washing her dishes seperate from ours, she won't wash them properly and dishes always have food stuck to them, or she leave them lying around and we have to wash everything... it's just a bad scene all around, with a lot of ill will on both fronts. i haven't even spoken to her in two months, no joke. luckily we only have 3 more months on our lease.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Baked
Please make a blog if you decide to go ahead w/ the idea. I wanna see how soon you'll kill your friends, and vice versa.

K. Likely timing is mid-May (owner has some ****** left to straighten out before we can occupy anyway, so it's not likely that the place is goimg to get rented out from under us)

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Baked
Please make a blog if you decide to go ahead w/ the idea. I wanna see how soon you'll kill your friends, and vice versa.

MySpace? Or LiveJournal?

 

[DainBramaged]

How is this different from college dorms?

 

[RossMAN]

If you attempt this be prepared for the financial liability if you sign a lease.

Whoever signs the lease will be on the hook for $$$ if the other roommates move out.

 

[Babbles]

I would not go for it. This may sound fun and like a reasonable idea on paper, but as many people here already mentioned this plan is nothing but trouble waiting to happen. It can be hard enough to live with one other person in a two bedroom apartment, but to throw in four people, especially including a couple, will just add a huge amount of soap opera-ish stress.

 

[HaxorNubcake]

1 shitter with the girl = failure

 

[Mellman]

yeah you'll learn more than you wanted to know about some of these people, and all slobs will bea b1tch i wouldnt do it....someone always is a bad apple. the 1 toilet is the big problem, and only 2 bedrooms, i gotta have my own room. how long of showers does everyone take? i have 2 roomates (of 3) who take 1.5 hours in the bathroom each day....wTF mate!

 

[Gagan]

Ignorant kids. Stay at home.

I am in your aforementioned age and man you do not know how good you have it.

I also make enough income to live on my own and mortgage a car and a 2 story apartment but you don't see me doing it do you?

You know why? Because they do what they do because they care, and I'll never forget that the tv, the computer and the heat and bed and everything i stare at originates from their love for me

"sick of commuting" isn't good enough. I can't wait till you have kids of your own and they do this to you after you probably get them everything they want, even if you don't get everything, atleast you have cable internet and a computer, judging by your "cable intarweb is necessary".

Just goes to show that a lot is a little these days, and too much is just right.

/endrant

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: wvtalbot

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Zorro
If yuo dont mind the couple getting busy and making noise

We're polite enough to wait until everyone's asleep or out (or has their iPod earbuds firmly implanted). And she's pretty quiet, anyway.

Is it that she is quiet, or you just can't cause her to make any noise?

heh, chuckled on that one

 

[Pegun]

IMHO, coming from a college student with four roomates, somebody will end up trying to kill one of the others over something stupid like a missing hotpocket (No, it really happened). Three of you living together, probably could work, as long as you are similar and have been able to get along for at least a couple months already. Even two guys and a girl i doubt would work, due to the whole out numbered in arguements thing.

 

[imthebadguy]

comeon guys its doable.....no one here goes to college??, i lived in a house with 7 guys last year, im in an apt with 3 this year, and next year ill be in a house with 8......its your typical college house, extremely dirty, no one really cleans or does the dishes, kegs/beer bottles everywhere, and a hell of a lotta fun

 

[tekzilla41]

When money is tight you gotta make things work. Do it man.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Ignorant kids. Stay at home.

I am in your aforementioned age and man you do not know how good you have it.

I also make enough income to live on my own and mortgage a car and a 2 story apartment but you don't see me doing it do you?

If you think you mortgage a car, there are probably a few other reasons why you should stay at home

You know why? Because they do what they do because they care, and I'll never forget that the tv, the computer and the heat and bed and everything i stare at originates from their love for me

You mean the TV, computer, bed, and everything else in my domain down to the carpet and paint that came out of my own pocket came from my parent's love? Yes, they love me, but no, they aren't responsible for my continued existance.

"sick of commuting" isn't good enough.

Add 1hr to the beginning of your collegiate day. And add 1hr to the end. This is my commute. If I want to go home and take a shower before I go on a date after a day getting covered in indescribeable filth in the warehouse, I have to drive for two hours.[/quote]

I can't wait till you have kids of your own and they do this to you after you probably get them everything they want,

If you're a parent and you buy your kids everything, you suck at parenting.

even if you don't get everything, atleast you have cable internet and a computer, judging by your "cable intarweb is necessary".

This is because we're IT majors... We all own our own gear, and our major requires giganormous 50mb presentations, and storing them on the university servers is a safer bet than carrying around copies.

Just goes to show that a lot is a little these days, and too much is just right.

/endrant

/endcounterrant

 

[BigJ]

Everything is going to be great until you guys break up.

 

[bigrash]

Bad idea. I don't see this going well

 

[Phlargo]

I agree.. the girl will be the deal breaker. Things will go just fine - until she decides to break up with one of the guys and go for another. It'll get ugly.

 

[Gibson486]

I think it is more if you can do this legally.....


you make it seem like you wanna get a 1 bedroom for 4 people....

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
and by "small", we're talking "2 bedroom, 1 shitter, half a kitchen, and one other room"

haha wtf you gotta be joking!

 

[SampSon]

2 bedrooms for one couple and two other guys, no way.
No matter how bad you think your home situation is, you don't want to share a bedroom with another guy at your age.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: SampSon
2 bedrooms for one couple and two other guys, no way.
No matter how bad you think your home situation is, you don't want to share a bedroom with another guy at your age.

So he can sleep on the couch. Or something. He's a friggin' programmer, it's not like we have to worry about him getting a girl.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
I think it is more if you can do this legally.....


you make it seem like you wanna get a 1 bedroom for 4 people....

I'd sooner die.