Roommate Contracts Clarify Boundaries
It is not uncommon for colleges to require students who will be sharing living space to sign roommate contracts. These contracts typically spell out expectations for acceptable behavior, along with roommate rights and responsibilities. Even if you aren’t required to sign a roommate agreement, these contracts can be an excellent tool for preventing misunderstandings about what is and is not acceptable behavior.
Roommate contracts typically include
- Advance warning for guests
- Length of time acceptable for guest visits
- Times guest visits are acceptable
- Guidelines for use of common space when visitors are present
- Same sex versus opposite sex visit guidelines
- Personal property boundaries
- Standards for cleanliness
- Dealing with dirty laundry
- Designated quiet hours for study or sleep
- Guidelines for sharing control of television and other appliance
- Weekend versus weekday rules
- Dealing with telephone messages
- Telephone usage limits and restrictions
- Procedure for distributing mail
- Fair division of shared expenses
- Deadlines for payment of rent and other bills
- Smoking rules
- Drinking rules
- Allergy issues that may impact acceptable behavior
- Pet ownership and care guidelines
- Procedure for updating roommate agreement
- Consequences for violating roommate agreement
|
|
|
|
|
|
Latest College & Financial Aid NewsSupport Pets Prompt College Policy Re-evaluationSeptember 20, 2016
by Susan Dutca Emotional support animals are able to attend select colleges with their owners, as schools are re-evaluating their campus policies when it comes to accommodating students with mental-health issues. Higher education institutions are also debating whether suicide-prone students should be given campus leave, in order to recover. Administrators are fighting to make decisions in the best interest of [...]9/11 Memorial Flags Trashed at California CollegeSeptember 13, 2016
by Susan Dutca Vandals allegedly trashed the 2,997 American flags planted across Occidental College's campus as a 9/11 Memorial by the college's Republican Club. The broken and trashed flags were replaced by fliers that read, "RIP the 1,455,590 innocent Iraqis who died during the U.S. invasion for something they didn't do." The memorial, which was approved by, and registered with the college, was quickly [...]Private Jet College Tours? Sure...If You Have $100KSeptember 6, 2016
by Susan Dutca It's not feasible to do 10 campus visits in only 5 days - unless you're willing and able to pay for a private jet that costs more than college tuition itself. Magellan Jets offers a college tour package to "decrease both the headache and the time spent on college campus visits." So if you have $100,000 to spare, sit back, relax, and enjoy the refreshment bar as you soar to your next campus [...]Follow Us:
|
