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Hi,
We are trying to figure out the best household position to list people who are roommates sharing the same apartment. Currently they are in the same household and where there are two females, we list them both as spouse with no head in the household. I can see how this would be a problem if two males are roommates and sharing an apartment and we mark them both as head. This causes problems with online giving where the person marked "head" can see all giving for the household.
We also have a household currently that is two females that have come and listed the other female as their spouse. We want to be able to distinguish between these households and the ones where we know that it is two roommates renting an apartment together.
Please reply and let me know how your church determines the household position in this situation, or do you split up the two roommates into separate households?
Thanks so much,
cshelton
Crystal Shelton
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Comments (4)
Good morning - we have always split the two roommates into 2 separate households. We do this for purposes of mailing, but mainly for purposes of contribution statements.
Connie
Victory Christian Center
Once you split them, what household position do you give them? Head? Spouse?
Thank you so much!
We'd also split the roommates to their own separate households. We also make sure that they are both "Head" of their own household, as Connie said, for contributions purposes...
Mallory V.
Faith Community Church
We do the same thing others have suggested (keep roommates in their own households). That makes it a lot easier when roommates move, which will happen! You won't want to constantly have to merge and split these "households" otherwise.
This reminds me of one other idea which might be helpful to somebody (or not):
We aren't strict about if it's the male or the female in the household who is listed as "head" vs. "spouse." Typically, the first person we enter will be the "head" and whoever's next will be "spouse." We haven't had any negative issues with keeping our data this way, and it makes data-entry a little easier for our volunteers.
Becky