Guides for Living With Roommates

A shared home runs better when the money, the groceries, and the chores are settled up front. These guides cover how - practical, direct, no filler. SHULAM! is the app that keeps it all running in one place.

• Moving in With Roommates: The First-Week Checklist

  What actually needs to get settled in your first week sharing an apartment - lease, deposit, utilities, house rules, and money. No fluff.

• How to Split Expenses With Roommates Without the Drama

  Even split, by room size, or by usage? The three ways roommates split costs, when each one makes sense, and why spreadsheets die in February.

• Who Owes Whom? Close Out the Month in Five Minutes

  A monthly settle-up routine for roommates: one fixed day, one net balance, one Venmo transfer each. Nobody chases anybody.

• Shared Groceries Without Buying Milk Twice

  How roommates run one shared grocery list: what's communal vs personal, who shops when, and how nobody comes home with the wrong brand.

• Why Half Your Fridge Ends Up in the Trash, and How to Stop It

  Food waste in a shared apartment is everyone's money in the bin. A simple system for managing a shared fridge, with expiration tracking that runs itself.

• A Chore Split That Survives Past Week Two

  Why every chore chart dies in two weeks, and how to build a roommate chore rotation that's actually fair and actually enforced.

• The Grocery Receipt: Split It Without a Calculator

  How roommates split a grocery receipt when some items are shared and some are personal. Receipt scanning that does the work.

• What's for Dinner? Whatever's Already in the Fridge

  Shared meals in a roommate apartment without a special shopping trip: cook from what you have, save real money, and rescue what's about to expire.

• Rent, Utilities, and Everything Else: Bills 101 for First-Time Renters

  Moving into your first shared apartment? Every bill headed your way - rent, electric, gas, internet, renters insurance - when each arrives and how roommates split them.

• The House Rules Talk: Fifteen Minutes That Save a Year of Fights

  The conversation every roommate apartment needs in week one: money, cleaning, guests, noise, and the thermostat. Includes the exact question list.