With Christmas and Valentine's Day out of the way, this time of the year is notorious for being the busiest for break ups. With divorce or separation accounting for 9% of all property sales, and with figures still rising, estate agents know that the three Ds – divorce, debt and death bring houses to the market.
Read our article on how best to deal with this, and if you have any advice please tell us about it.
You may have got a bit of a laugh from our weird flatmate posts and here are the latest - oh the joys of living with people!
I came back from a big night out, left my contact lenses in a glass in the kitchen cos couldn't find their container... my very clumsy flatmate got up in the morning thirsty (and still very under the weather) and "drank" my contacts thinking it was a glass of water... aaarghh... Elena, Greater London
One of my flatmates used to stick clumps of her hair that came out in the shower, on the shower cubicle wall. It was disgusting! Rachael, North West
One guy, had the hairiest back in the world and used to sleep in the lounge in only his boxers, very unpleasant..... He tried to use removal cream on it once and had to ask one of the other flatties to scrap all the cream off.... Grossamatosa. Jessica, East Anglia
My weird flatmate used knickers for face flannels and she cooked chips at 2am. Tamara, South West
In my first year of University I lived with, quite possibly, the skankiest girl you'll ever meet. She was allergic to all forms of tidying up and cleaning to the extent that our cleaners refused to even enter the flat. Her room was waist high in rubbish and she had no compunction about using other people's crockery as makeshift ashtrays. One night , one of the boys was sick on her sheets. She slept on them the whole night then bundled them up and stuck them in her wardrobe where they remained- for the rest of the year! Fiona
