Submitted by: Monie Malik
Nearly everyone who has ever shacked up in a rented property or houseshare will have stories about nightmare flatmates. You are sure to have your own. With property prices and rents soaring, more and more of us are choosing to live in shared homes for longer. Of course, with such a quantity of people renting and sharing, there are bound to be a few terrible flatmates around. Getting contents insurance for tenants, sticking labels on your food and padlocking your door are just a few of the ways to deal with your more peculiar flatmates…
If, like me, you’ve inhabited houseshares for too many years, you will be able to identify with some of the weirdness I have witnessed. Possibly you’ll have lived with someone like my, truly petrifying, old German-exchange housemate. This feller seemed perfectly alright as soon as you got past his preference for very strange smelling German wurst. However, one night, he went totally mental after losing at a video game and rabidly attacked the kitchen door repetitively with a large knife. That sent me running for contents insurance for tenants.
Then there was the girl who left a whole biscuit tin full of rice pudding in a totally hidden corner directly over the oven. Taking into consideration my love of rice pudding this would have been fine, only she completely failed to remember that it was there and left it for us to discover, three entire months later. It was the mouldiest thing I have ever had to deal with.
A couple of months later the lino in the kitchen got horrendously messed up when a new, replacement housemate (who informed us that he was dangerously allergic to all types of rubber) unearthed a pair of marigolds in the house and broke all of the plates he could find in the cupboards. We ate our dinners out of saucepans and mugs for days after that, but the contents insurance for tenants I invested in looked after the floor.
In addition to this there are the flatmates who arrive home at 3am, paraletic, screaming and crying, the housemates who ‘borrow’ toothbrushes and the geniuses who just let people into the building only to discover that they have tiptoed out with handfuls of smart phones and Xboxes. Luckily the latter didn’t happen to me, but it did happen to a mate. While I was sympathetic, I guiltily was a bit smug having recently organised my contents insurance for tenants.
An unusually large building-share my mate once had a room in had the fire service turn up once a week when the fire alarm for no apparent reason rang in the middle of the night. The firemen got angrier and angrier about it all until, on the penultimate occassion, they came across one single white rose had been deliberately placed on a gas hob. I tried in vain to persuade her to move out but in the end I could just persuade her to invest in contents insurance for tenants.
Of course it isn’t all terrible; flatsharing has been some of the greatest, most enjoyable and most wonderful times of my past. The best thing is to be as relaxed as you are safe. I have come across some awesome, exciting, fantastic folk in houseshares, however sometimes you may come across the odd freak. Even if you feel totally safe with the tenants you co-tenant with it is always wise to be watchful, at least until you properly know a new tenant.
Knowing that my posessions were safe and that any damage would be covered by my contents insurance for tenants allowed me to relax in houseshares. This meant that I left myself open to meeting new people and having new experiences, which, ultimately, made my time housesharing one of the most exciting times of my life!
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