Annoying Housemates Making Student Accommodation Hell

When you move to a new city to start University you will most probably be placed in student accommodation where you don’t know anyone. Hopefully, your new housemates will be nice people who you get on with and become friends for life but there are times when unfortunately you may be housed with annoying housemates.

Here’s the first part of my blog about “Annoying Housemate Traits”.

Annoying Housemate #1 – The Messy Person

The messy housemate can be very annoying. Whether its leaving dirty plates in the kitchen, their socks in the shared living room or never cleaning up, living with this type of student can lead to many house arguments. The messy housemate could be that way for many reasons, one of which could be that their mum used to clean up after them all the time when they lived at home. Don’t fall into the trap of doing this in your student accommodation though. The best way to stop a messy housemate is to first of all talk to them and try and get them to change. Implement a cleaning rota so that everyone does the same amount of cleaning and the problem is gone. Another solution for if this isn’t successful though is to take their dirty plates and anything else they leave around the house and put it in their bed. They will learn quickly enough not to be messy anymore.

Each of your housemates will most likely have different levels of what is deemed as messy so it is important to talk to them so that your University student accommodation us great fun.