House Agreements Around Cleanliness and Tidiness

As a co-living house, we share significant amounts of space and common areas.  As such, we have made the following agreements such that we can collectively manage these spaces in a way that makes them clean and usable for everyone. As housemates, we agree to keep common spaces in a general state of cleanliness and organization.

A. Cultural/Values Agreements

1. Always assume good intent. We recognize that people here are loving and want to help each other when they know how.
2. Leave a place as good or better than you found it (pay it forward).
3. Never clean up after another person if you are feeling resentful.
4. No use of stereotypes or other prejudices will be tolerated.

B. Kitchen Agreements

1. A clean kitchen has no dishes in the sink, no food or ingredients left out (a full drying rack is not an excuse).
2. Always clean up after yourself.
3. The person cooking/preparing a shared meal is ultimately responsible that the kitchen is clean afterwards. They are also granted power to delegate cleaning to anyone and everyone.

C. Bathroom Agreements

1. Always clean up after yourself; this includes ensuring that the toilet seat is down, drains are clear and surfaces are dry and clean of debris and disorganization after each use.
2. Be considerate of housemate schedules.

D. Common Spaces Agreements

1. No personal stuff left overnight or for significant time in common spaces.
2. Exceptions:  (to be added if discussed and agreed on by current co-living members)

E. Communication / Accountability Agreements

1. We agree to communicate in a loving and kind way when we notice someone has broken an agreement, whether or not we ultimately choose to clean up;
1. If we know who has broken the agreement, we agree to communicate directly with that person and don’t call them out publicly, or speak about them to someone else.
2. If we don’t know who broke the agreement, we agree to communicate publicly what has occurred.
3. In keeping with our agreement, assume good intent.
4. We all agree to let others hold us to account to the agreements we’ve made above.
2. We agree to hold a learning (rather than blame) stance around accountability.
3. We agree to follow the LYRC Chore Chart and complete our responsibilities. 

F. Guest Agreements

1. It is the responsibility of the host to communicate the rules to their guests.
2. The host is ultimately responsible for their guests impact on the house.
3. The house agrees to communicate to the host or guests as appropriate if a guest breaks the above agreements.
4. It is the responsibility of the housemate to inform all other housemates in group text when someone will be spending the night. 
5. No guess should spend the night more than three nights in a week unless discussed with current co-living members.