Great idea to think of moving into a condominium for rent or a rental flat near the workplace – its cool to have that yuppy image after graduating college, fun also to be on your own away from your parent’s nest and be focusing on your budding career. But the price is a wee bit over your spending limit. Here’s 5 helpful tips if you’re considering to share a studio apartment with someone and be on your way to shop for dream flats for rent.
Eliminate messy issues best avoided in the first place by understanding what it is you’re entering into. Here’s how:
- Identify the terms to include in an agreement. While the originally seeking for a way to split the rent, the property owner still have the right to call upon either you and your roommate for the whole rental dues in the event neither is unable to pay.
- Include shared expenses for utilities as well as for food and grocery. While you can have common ref and appliances, you can specify if food is for both or only for the one who purchased them; and the manner and scheduling for replenishing supplies. Who’s responsible for cleaning the ref, range and dish washing, as well as the toilet and common areas.
- Include policy on visitors and guests. It’s a good idea and fits both of your needs to have friends to see your cool nest or hang out. Are friends or family members allowed to stay and if so, specify the number of days and frequency and when does a guest or the host pitch in for food expenses.
- Include the policy on pets. You can’t leave this out, what if you find a perfect pet or a cute huggable creature. The best advice would be to expect the unexpected and provide for some leeway for contract amendments.
- Include combining and sharing of furniture, decors and homewares. While phones and certain gadgetries are strictly for personal use, include policy on styles, color and spatial preferences of combined furniture and how to share them for yourselves and your guests.
You can continue to build on top of this 5 useful tips to give yourself great results by creating a flat rental or condo-studio sharing agreement. Use it and enjoy cool cosmopolitan lifestyle without the mess, or ignore them and face lower expectations of living with an unfamiliar room-mate.
You’ve done your homework and now ready to browse to your hearts delight and choose the perfect dream studio you’ve always dreamt of moving close to office and with a walk-able distance to hot shopping malls and gimmick-venues. Well, you can always see your old folks every other weekends or ask them to drop by instead – in your condo studio or rental flat.
Recommended Links:
Rental flats in Ortigas Center, Rockwell, Eastwood or Ayala Centers: http://www.ayosdito.ph/
Condominium rental flats in Metro Manila: http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/classifieds+directory/
Condominium Studios in Ayala Center: http://www.atayala.com/?gclid=CJ_y4KPol68CFaGt4godoStJxA
Pets puppies and kitten for sale: http://www.philbuysell.com/pets/
Home furniture: http://www.sm-shoemart.com/contactus.htm
The Urban Observer 