I must be lucky..
I bought my first house, at 24, and let a few rooms out to some mates. The deal was $60ea + elecric, and we all put in for food...
Was a great deal, basically we lived 100m mtrs from the pub and 200mtrs from the shopping center, and we all had jobs..
Lucky that the guys who rented had "conections"...in a small way
I remeber waking up one morning to see a patch memeber asking if Steve would be going to work...
I knew the patch member... who was a dick...but worked with steve... " mate..ne aint here...he didnt come home"
He was actually there in the work truck to pick him up as he was not at the corner...
Thru steve... I got to know the local boys.....
Never had any issues....
I ....when a bit pissed used to call in at the the club house on the way home...and would wake up up on their lounge when the sun came up....
They good thing was, as we where mates, we had a keg on the front verandah for a month, and never had anyone turn up that wasnt invited