Roommate Agreement Generator
Nine steps — parties, rent and expenses, chores, quiet hours, guests, shared spaces, food, conflict resolution and move-out terms — each writing one numbered clause of a document you can print and sign. It is a social agreement rather than a contract: no lawyer has seen it, it creates no tenancy, and it overrides nothing in your lease.
Basics
Start with the fundamentals of your living arrangement.
How the agreement is put together
There is no calculation and no legal engine behind this page. It is a nine-step interview — parties, rent and expenses, chores, quiet hours, guests, shared spaces, food and groceries, conflict resolution, move-out terms — and each step writes one numbered clause of the document in the same order. What you type is what the clause says; what you leave blank is left out rather than filled with a default, so the agreement is as short or as long as your answers.
The nine topics are not a legal checklist. They are the nine subjects that shared households argue about, and the reason for putting them in a fixed order is that the argument almost always turns out to be about an expectation nobody said out loud. Quiet hours starting at ten or at midnight is not a disagreement until somebody assumes. The document's real work is done during the interview rather than by the paper at the end.
This is a social agreement, not a contract, and it is written in plain English rather than legal language on purpose. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer in any jurisdiction, it creates no tenancy, and it overrides nothing in your lease. Where you need something enforceable — a sublet, a deposit held by one name, a person leaving mid-term — that belongs in a document a local solicitor or attorney has seen. Everything you enter is printed straight from the page.
Every figure above was read out of the code that runs on this page. Where a number is our own judgement rather than a published one, the note says so and cites nothing. Method last checked 21 August 2026.
What a roommate agreement prevents
Most roommate conflicts stem from unspoken expectations. You assume quiet hours start at 10 PM. Your roommate thinks midnight. Neither of you is wrong — you just never discussed it. A roommate agreement prevents these misunderstandings before they become arguments.
Writing it down is what makes the conversation happen. Filling in the sections together forces the talks most housemates put off — about money, guests and noise — while everyone is still on good terms.
The best time to create a roommate agreement is before you move in together. The second best time is today. This generator walks you through eight common sources of friction, one section at a time.
If the bedrooms differ in size, or one has its own bathroom, the rent split calculator works out each room's share of the rent and prints it as a page to sign alongside this one.
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