The right roommates are good but you always have a chance of ending up with someone you thought would be a good roommate but is crap and rude.

My best friend is dealing with a lazy shit ass roommate right now.

That's another thing.. I'd definitely need to be the one who's name is on the rent or owned the place. I wouldn't be able to live there knowing someone else decided my fate. xD

NOPE, FUCKIT, NEVER, not even with friends.
As Mazz said, you can and possibly will hit that patch where your roomate will be short on rent.
Or what happened to a friend, he was under another friends lease, and this said friend made him pay extra just so he could waste his money on things he wanted.

Me personally, Im very untrusting, and love my personal space.

But these are others problems. Its tricky,....

Yea I'm like you. Don't really trust others and I love being alone.. but man the bills would be so much easier. xD And on that off chance I actually found an awesome roommate. x_x

Ive only been on one lease, the place Im currently living in, in a few months I would have lived here for 2 years. And I LOVE having my own space.

Ive lived with family, a couple friends, my mm of course, then my foster mm (Foster care for 4 years) and many other when at job corps, and there is just SO many comparability issues.
My persoal space has been invaded, Ive been stolen from, I have to deal with others drama, forced to meet people I don't want to know because of them, and misc rules they set up.

I don't like it, I hate it, Ive delt with it for 7 years, and now Im finally at peace. Only issue now is working enough to keep my independance.
And Im lucky enough to live in Low-Income housing.
Because everything else is $500 plus. With the job market as tough as it is, thats steep.

Exactly why I'm asking about roommates. :(
Apartments around here are so dang expensive for one person, and I live in the middle of nowhere in Ohio. Like a studio is about 300$ a month and that doesn't include your utilities. I'm not poor enough or have any kids to qualify for low income housing either. Sucks butt. xc

hehe for me it was doable because we were on a ship and were in constant contact with each other for 6 months before we got a place and split the bill.

I have a mix experience. I've had different room mates every year for the past three years.
I think the difference is that I live on a college campus.
But every year I have really rude, inconsiderate, messy, and passive aggressive room mates that flat out do not listen.
The one good room mate I've had is my best friend, but that's a real gamble. You have to be willing to live with the person.

Asides from a year at college I don't have much to say.

I have had two room mates through out my whole life.
The first one I thought I got lucky with because it was my cousin who I got along with really well...
>.> Turns out being friends or family with someone and living with them is just two different things.

My second room mate turned out to be my boyfriend lol

Room mates is just like a relationship.
You need to have rules & boundries between the two of you.
And both have to give & take.

I didn't know I was a neat freak until I moved out on my own and then ~Poof~ O.O must be clean.. all of it lol

I moved in with my boyfriend last June. I spent weekends with him every week. We decided one of his former coworkers could move in with us, since he needed a place to stay. I knew nothing of this guy before he moved in with us.
He's great. At first it was weird living with a completely stranger, but he's really responsible, and probably the only reason my relationship is great with my boyfriend.

I'm sure not every time it turns out as great as what I had going.


I mean, my first roommate was my best friend for years, and now we don't even talk to each other. That was a terrible idea.