Tough Questions You Should Ask Any Potential Roommate

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Choosing a roommate is one of the most important decisions you can make regarding your living situation, outside of where to display that framed poster of that cat struggling to hang in there. To help you make sure you don't let a person move in who you won't get along with, we've come up with a definitive list of tough questions to ask any potential roommate. Use it to raise every red flag out there. Your cat poster will thank you later.

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1. Do you go out on the weekends?

2. If yes, around what time do you come home?

3. Would you be willing to bring me back an extra slice of pizza on your way home from the bar?

4. Do you consider yourself a judgmental person?

5. Like, what if you came home and saw me eating five Hot Pockets? What would your reaction be if I said it was my dinner basically every night?

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6. How do you feel about doing chores?

7. Will you leave passive aggressive notes for me if I don’t do the dishes one night? What if I never do the dishes ever or generally clean up after myself?

8. What do you think of Justin Bieber?

9. What would you think of me if I told you his new album is kind of not horrible, especially that song with Big Sean?

10. Are you OK with my friends coming over?

11. What if most of them are horrible people who will eat our food and drink our booze, and then leave the place a mess?

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12. Are you religious?

13. If you claim to be “spiritual, but not religious,” can you at least admit that sounds a little ridiculous?

14. Will you split the cable bill with me?

15. Are you cool with my shows occupying upwards of 75% of the DVR?

16. Will you split the Internet bill with me?

17. If not, are you fine with teaming up with me to hack into our neighbor's Wi-Fi?

18. Will you pay my automobills?

19. Did you understand that reference, and will you laugh at every super-clever ‘90s reference I make even though they’re super outdated at this point?

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20. Would you eat the food in the refrigerator if I buy it, or am I just going to have to lick everything I buy at the supermarket so that you don’t eat it?

21. Are you cool with me eating all your food if I want to, though?

22. What’s your deepest, darkest secret?

23. You know I’m going to use that against you at some point if you become my roommate, right?

24. Will you promise to never be around when I want some alone time, and always be around when I want to complain about my boss Ted for hours at a time?

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25. Do you have hot friends?

26. Do they seem like the kind of people who will sleep with me?

27. Do you promise never to look my friends in the eye when they visit me, or interact with them in any way?

28. Will you promise to never lose your job so you can always afford to pay your half of the rent?

29. Are you cool with me renting out your room on Airbnb if you go away on vacation?

30. What if you leave for the weekend?

31. What if you work late one night?

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32. If you start dating someone, do you promise not to be all over them in front of me because that’s gross, and no one wants to see that?

33. Are you cool with me boning in the living room?

34. Can you promise to spend all your time at that significant other's place, unless I ask you to be here for emotional support re: Ted?

35. Do you have any pets?

36. Would you be down to get a dog or a cat and then completely take care of it while I solely reap the benefits of said pets?

37. Will you be my roommate, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, or at least until I break the lease when I move to another city and never talk to you ever again?

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Lee Bresloueris a senior writer for Thrillist, and is a great roommate, dammit. Follow him to living room bone-downs at: @LeeBreslouer.