How do I get my bf to give me rent.

Mr_Thrifty

I wonder if the responses would have been different, had this been a man complaining about his GF not paying him rent?

sonastin

yvonne13 wrote: »

Well I have just finished speaking to him and he told me to do one.

I think you can chalk this one up to you ended it, not him. Sucks to be single at christmas but not as much as it sucks to be broke and struggling because of a low life loser. Good luck with finding a lodger and a better man...

Meadows

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I wonder if the responses would have been different, had this been a man complaining about his GF not paying him rent?

Yes don't see why not a user is a user.

sonastin

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I wonder if the responses would have been different, had this been a man complaining about his GF not paying him rent?

Probably not. There's been a couple of threads recently from blokes with user girlfriends not paying their way and the responses have been pretty similar.

bristol_pilot

If he is maintaining his own property elsewhere and especially if he is paying council tax at that property, then you shouldn't have told the council that he has moved in because he hasn't - you could have kept your 25% council tax discount and considered him as a visitor.

If you do decide he has moved in proper and want him to make a financial contribution to the household/bills then it essential to get a written lodgers agreement in place otherwise he may be able to claim a share of your property at some point in the future - regardless of whether prices have increased, decreased or there is or is not 'equity' in the property. (It is usually the guys that get into this sort of mess with live-in girlfirends, but the law does work both ways).

diable

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I wonder if the responses would have been different, had this been a man complaining about his GF not paying him rent?

It depends on her "skills" and whether she likes leather or latex

bristol_pilot

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

If someone lives with a partner in their fully paid-for house then any monies paid by them could not be construed as having made a contribution towards it.

There are plenty of court cases where someone has been deemed to have contributed to a house just by living in in. Not worth the risk.

Seems he has gone now anyway.

Blobby8_2

Blobby8 wrote: »

Bed, board, council tax, for £100 amonth ? I'll move in for £200 (and the sex will be better).
JOKE

Sorry didnt realize it was Manchester.
Revised offer :- £300 if your a red
£200 if your a blue (but no sex)
If your Stockport county - you pay me

bristol_pilot

Funny how a guy living off his GF gets so much criticism on these boards, but no-one says anything about all the non-working wives living off their husbands never doing a day's paid work in their lives and not looking after kids either.

yvonne13_2

bristol_pilot wrote: »

If he is maintaining his own property elsewhere and especially if he is paying council tax at that property, then you shouldn't have told the council that he has moved in because he hasn't - you could have kept your 25% council tax discount and considered him as a visitor.

Ok he is 26 years old and lives with his mother, he doesn't pay any bills there but that is not my business. I was doing the right thing by informing the council that he was staying with me 6 days a week and it was them that said I cannot keep my single persons discount anymore. I don't like claiming for things I am not entitled to hence me ringing them.

Anyway the problem has now been resolved as he has told me to do one and I will be renting the room out in the new year.