Room Mates / Apartments - Page 2

El Diablo · #11 04-25-2006, 03:55 PM

KBZ,

Yes, I did not mean to imply that it has to be 50/50. In complete agreement with what you wrote.

KrmtDfrog · #12 04-25-2006, 03:58 PM

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It is a sad commentary, when characters on MTV's The Real World could teach you a few things about living in the real world.

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so true [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

jba · #13 04-25-2006, 04:13 PM

here's how i did it. my buds and I moved into a place for $2000. there were two identical rooms, a small room, and a large room. one guy wanted to pay less rent so he took the small room, and myself and the other two bid on the large room. we ended up going 650/500/500/350 and everyone was happy.

z28dreams · #14 04-25-2006, 04:19 PM

Which bedroom do you want?

Personally, I'd always take the smaller bedroom for less rent. It's not like you live in there.

meleader2 · #15 04-25-2006, 04:29 PM

don't have sex with her. it's bad news.

hyde · #16 04-25-2006, 04:35 PM

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Have a bidding process. Bid on how much rent you're willing to pay for the bigger room.

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simple, logical and fair.
I've seen this used when an estate is inherited. It keeps some of the emotions out of it.

guids · #17 04-25-2006, 04:58 PM

We had feats of stupidity. I moved into a place w/ 3 other guys, first night while we were painting etc, we had to decide who slept in which room (2 of the rooms were nicer, and on the 2nd floor w/ balcolny etc). After many drinks and paint fumes, we started with:

Who chugs 3 beers, naked, outside, while the others hose him down w/ supersoakers (in jan 10 degrees).

Who chugs a pepper jar from steak n shake

etc.

J6o All In · #18 04-25-2006, 10:10 PM

A bidding scheme is not fair because it allocates the entire surplus of trade to one party.

EG, suppose Dave values the large room at 6 and I value it at 10. We will bid and I will end up paying 6.01 for it. This gives me a surplus of 4, and Dave a surplus of 0.

Ideally we should be splitting the surplus. Thoughts?

El Diablo · #19 04-25-2006, 10:12 PM

J,

You sound like a fun roommate.

Sephus · #20 04-25-2006, 10:17 PM

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A bidding scheme is not fair because it allocates the entire surplus of trade to one party.

EG, suppose Dave values the large room at 6 and I value it at 10. We will bid and I will end up paying 6.01 for it. This gives me a surplus of 4, and Dave a surplus of 0.

Ideally we should be splitting the surplus. Thoughts?

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i think you're overthinking this.

what if you do a one-shot, single silent bid auction? would that work?