How to successfully live in Sydney

1.) Find a nice place in the suburbs.
2.) Ask politely if it is okay for a couple of people to stay while housemate is in Fiji.
3.) When ground floor of apartment gets messy, send warning SMS to housemate.
5.) Don't go to beach when you could a tidyin'
6.) Say "Whoops" when you arrive home to find she made the dude still sleeping clean up the place in the hour she was home.
7.) Clean up good when people leave and before she gets back.
8.) Explain that it was her sister who slept in her bed, not one of your friends - find out warning SMS didn't arrive until after after.

9.) Ask politely if girlfriend's sister can stay for 5 days.
10.) Live in harmony for a couple of days.
11.) Don't wake up housemate at 4am blowing up a lilo for a cousin that can't get home. Maybe feel crap, buy flowers, apologise good and proper a few times.
12.) Don't get asked to leave a month earlier than planned.
13.) Don't leave the next day.
14.) Don't move everything you own into a lodge, and especially don't lose diary with keypass on train at 9pm.
15.) Don't bang loudly on door, but maybe call from payphone when mobile phone died.
16.) Don't give up, hang out in 3 or 4 train stations, whatever you do, don't talk to many apathetic train employees about lost property.
17.) Don't end up in expensive hotel with only the clothes you are wearing.
18.) For your sanity don't find out that the lodge owners were actually there the whole time and leaving messages on your dead phone.