Mark William

When we started doing our first roommate rental house we did not realize that we had and awesome idea and that idea would be able to help anyone with a home to make extra cash and have their home make their mortgage or at least a big a part of it. We that is what we did take a look. When we first started renting out rooms at the Roommate House, our son lived in the home. We were just helping him so he did not have to make the entire mortgage payment. In the beginning, we found a couple of male roommates to assist him with the actual mortgage.

It worked so well, we got a third male roommate and by the time our son went into the Marines, it was easy to find a fourth male roommate. We continued to find roommates to (We helped our son, why don't you help ourselves? make the mortgage payment and some extra cash flow. As we went along, we realized we could either hire a maid or just assign the existing roommates chores to keep the place clean inside and out. Additionally, we developed house rules so the roommates would not have access to tolerate messy environment, disrespect for each other's space, time, privacy and disrespect for other individual's property.

We of course do not want wild parties and also unacceptable behavior like people of the opposite sex sleeping over. We have roommates not only sign and agree with our month-to-month contract but also sign The Home Rules agreement type. Everyone follows the rules or they abandon. We even separate the refrigerator, kitchen cabinets and pantry with name labels for individual shelves and cold spots inside the refrigerator and freezer.