With your phone ringing off the hook and email messages piling up, are you still trying to decide how to select your new roommate? If you are, don’t worry, it’s just a matter of getting organized and putting together a roommate selection process that suits you.

The key to successfully choosing a new roommate is to start planning how you will select your roommate before you begin your search. Creating a roommate selection process lets you become more organized which allows you to focus on choosing the right roommate. This means you can make the right choices without needing to worry that you may be choosing the wrong roommate.

The ideal roommate selection process involves 6 distinctive steps. The advantage of breaking down the process into steps is that it allows you to concentrate on each part individually without being overwhelmed by the “big picture”. So, what does the selection process to find your perfect roommate involve? Let’s take a look at each of the 6 steps in detail.

1. Plan Questions for Initial Enquiries
You will need to decide on 4-5 questions you would like to ask during initial telephone and email enquiries. This way you can find out more about a person and decide if you like to invite them to a roommate interview.

2. Create a Short List and Schedule Interviews
Putting together a short list shows you which people closely match the profile of your perfect roommate and would be good candidates to become your new roommate. When scheduling interviews, it’s a good idea to meet with potential roommates a few hours apart, so that you don’t need to cut interviews short due to the lack of time.

3. Interview Potential Roommates
Roommate interviews can be formal or informal and can be held at any place, for example, you could hold casual interviews over coffee in a local Caf

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