MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should Terry and June charge their son rent?

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Here's this week's hypothetical situation for you to cogitate on:
Should Terry and June charge their son rent?
Terry and June own a rental flat in London; their youngest son is moving there straight from school to start a new job, and wants to stay there. Yet the couple let his two older brothers live there rent free, while they were students. However, as he will have a full-time job, Terry & June think he should pay rent. He thinks it's unfair, as the others stayed for nowt.
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I think charging your own son rent to turn a profit is bordering on the obscene.
Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
If they do not charge him any rent, he will not understand the responsibility of money and paying for his way in life.
Mum & Dad: Your brothers were students when they lived there. They didn't have an income. You do. So it's only right you should pay.
Preston: But it's wrong that you should make money from your son.
Mum & Dad: This is a rental property that we bought to help us with our own income. If we give you free rent our income goes down. Does that sound fair to you?
Preston: Well I think you're exploiting me.
Mum & Dad: We're not charging exploiting rent (Ed: Mum & Dad are probably offering Preston a cheaper rate than the commercial rate). If you're unhappy about paying us rent you are welcome to live elsewhere and pay rent there. We'll just rent the flat out to someone else at a commercial rate. Welcome to the world, son.
If they could be making money out of it but aren't then they'll be worse off.
Coming to an agreement where he pays their costs plus a little more to soften the blow of losing this income is the way ahead.
If the flat has two bedrooms he could share with someone else to help with the bills.
Nothing in life is for free (apart from the things on the freebies board here!) and any parent who lets their child think otherwise is just storing up trouble for them.
If he starts work and has lots of disposable income he may end up spending it and being used to treating himself all the time, then when he moves out and pays rent or a mortgage, he will still want to buy all the consumer goodies he's used to, and may well end up in debt to do it.
Better to start hom off on the right foot. Of course if they're loaded then they could keep the money without telling him, then give it back when he needs a deposit for a mortgage of his own.;)
Balance 19th April '07 = minus £27,640
Balance 1st November '09 = mortgage paid off with £1903 left over. Title deeds are now ours.
I'm now doing a PhD, still renting, and still adding to that account now I know about it (!!) so it's a substantial amount.
Maybe the parents should charge him, take out of that amount the money owed for basic upkeep (food, cleaning, washing clothes, bills etc) and put the rest into a "secret savings account" as being so young maybe he doesn't appreciate the value of saving?