This Room Rental Agreement (the “Agreement”) sets out the friendly, plain-spoken terms for renting one private bedroom in a shared house — the room, the rent, the deposit, and how four housemates will share the kitchen, living room, and bath and look after the place together.
Room 3, the back bedroom of a four-bedroom craftsman house of roughly 1,850 square feet, rented furnished with a full-size bed, dresser, and desk. The Tenant shares the kitchen, living room, one full bath, the laundry room, and the fenced backyard with three other housemates. The room has a door that locks and one off-street parking spot in the driveway.
The Head Tenant rents to the Tenant the private bedroom known as Room 3, the back bedroom at 1130 SE Ash St, Portland, OR 97214 (the Room), furnished as described on the first page. The Room is the Tenant’s alone, with a door that locks.
The Tenant also has equal, everyday use of the home’s Shared Spaces — the kitchen, the living room, the one full bathroom, the laundry room, and the fenced backyard — together with the other three housemates. No housemate may store personal belongings so as to crowd a shared space, and the Tenant’s guests use the shared spaces as the Tenant’s guests, not as residents.
This Agreement begins on July 1, 2026 and runs for a fixed term of six (6) months, ending on December 31, 2026. The Head Tenant will have the Room clean and the bed made up on move-in day and will hand over a key to the Room and a key to the front door. If the Tenant stays on after the term with everyone’s agreement, the room rental continues month-to-month on these same terms until either side gives the notice set out in Clause 10.
Rent for the Room is $850.00 per month, due on the 1st and considered late after the 5th. A late charge of $25.00 applies to rent received after the grace period. Rent is paid to the Head Tenant by bank transfer or a shared-house payment app; a partial payment does not waive the rest. The first month’s rent and the deposit are due at move-in, as set out here.
The Head Tenant holds the $850.00 deposit against unpaid rent and any damage to the Room or Shared Spaces beyond normal wear. The deposit may not be used by the Tenant as a last month’s rent. Within 21 days of move-out, the Head Tenant will return the deposit, less any fair and itemized deductions, after a quick walk-through of the Room together.
The house bills are shared four ways — one even share per housemate — and settled by the 5th of each month through the house account:
The Tenant’s typical share of the shared bills runs about $95.00 per month, trued up to the real bills each month — never a fixed fee, always the actual split.
This is the heart of a shared house: a little courtesy keeps everyone happy. Common-area cleaning rotates weekly so no one task lands on one person, and groceries you buy for yourself stay yours unless shared by agreement.
The Room is the Tenant’s private space. The Head Tenant will not enter the Room without the Tenant’s okay, except to make a needed repair or show the Room near move-out — and then only after at least 24 hours’ notice, during reasonable daytime hours. In a genuine emergency, such as a leak or fire, anyone in the house may enter the Room at once to keep people and the property safe.
If rent goes unpaid, or a House Rule is broken and not put right within a fair time after a friendly written reminder, the Head Tenant may end this Agreement and ask the Tenant to move out, using the remedies available under applicable law. The Head Tenant must likewise keep the Room and Shared Spaces livable; if a needed repair is not made after written notice, the Tenant may pursue the remedies the law provides. The aim is always to talk it out at a house meeting first.
At the end of the term this Agreement may renew by simple written agreement, or carry on month-to-month if everyone is happy, with 30 days’ written notice required to end a month-to-month arrangement. If the Tenant leaves before the term ends, the Tenant stays responsible for rent until a replacement housemate is found and approved by the household, and the Head Tenant will help find one. On the way out, the Tenant clears the Room and their fridge shelf and returns the Room in the condition it was received, less normal wear.
This Agreement is the whole understanding between the Head Tenant and the Tenant and replaces any earlier promise. If one clause is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. It is governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, where required. Notices are given in writing to the contacts on the first page or by the house messaging group. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts, and electronic signatures are valid; letting one thing slide once does not waive it later. Any change is in writing and signed by both parties.
Signed as of June 22, 2026. By signing below, the Head Tenant and the Tenant agree to every term of this Agreement, confirm they have read it in full, and each keep a complete copy. Welcome to the house.
Make yourself at home, Sam — the back bedroom is yours, the kitchen is everyone’s, and the porch light is on. Here’s to an easy, good-natured six months under one roof.