How much board should I be paying?

neneromanova

My sister won't pay rent. She is now earning a wage and is going to be expected to pay 1/3 of it. That's roughly about £300 maybe a bit less, but she says she'd rather move out than pay rent :rotfl: DH asked if he could move in for £300 a month with all food and bills paid for :rotfl:

She has one massive shock when she goes and finds herself a place to live, just like a lot of kids nowadays will.

liney

jadeappleby wrote: »

I don't think having around £120 of my pay spare a month is selfish either.

Plus your loan... plus your grant.

You are failing to take into account the fact that you have possibly up to another £7600 per year, depending on your family household income.

That's not quite as reasonable now, is it?

pink_princess

silvercar wrote: »

Would you charge an elderly parent who came to live with you?

Do you mean if an elderly relative came to live here, would they contribute to their overheads? Of course, why shouldn't they?

Wyre

My daughter is planning on coming home for a paid placement year next year. She will need to pay rent as we cannot afford to have another mouth to feed plus the extra to bills (without it impacting on the other children) without a contribution. She currently pays to live away from home, why should it be different to live at home?

Obviously we will not be charging her as much as if she had a room in a shared house but a contribution to food and the increase in bills with her here (and yes they do go up as we noticed over the summer) too right she is paying!

FatVonD

As long as DS is in education then I don't plan on taking anything from him for his board. Today coincidentally is his first payday from his weekend job and I won't ask for anything but obviously, now he has his own money, I won't be giving him pocket money and he'll be expected to pay for his own games/gig tickets etc etc. I will continue to send him to college with a packed lunch every day but if he wants to eat in the canteen or buy overpriced coffee then he can pay for that himself.

JanCee

neneromanova wrote: »

My sister won't pay rent. She is now earning a wage and is going to be expected to pay 1/3 of it. That's roughly about £300 maybe a bit less, but she says she'd rather move out than pay rent :rotfl: DH asked if he could move in for £300 a month with all food and bills paid for :rotfl:

She has one massive shock when she goes and finds herself a place to live, just like a lot of kids nowadays will.

When my 2 returned home after uni and started earning I made it clear to them that the money they paid was not rent, it was a contribution to the household bills. I think the thought of paying rent to live in the family home can be galling to some children but paying your share of the household bills is the right thing to do. No adult who is bringing in an income should expect to live anywhere for free, no matter what the parents income is.

Person_one

thorsoak wrote: »

It's not really a case of "what should you be paying" - what you should be looking at is "what you would pay if you do not live at home"!

Why though?

Living with family is not comparable to renting from a landlord, a landlord is in business to make profit from you, and you have a set of legal rights and responsibilities relating to the property.

nimbo

I have to say that £120 free from her wage plus ALL her student finance could well be a rather large sum.

To run my small two bed terrace costs about £600 a month including rent, asking you to put 25% towards that cost wouldn't seem unreasonable if you were living here - you don't mention how much the whole house costs to run, but gas and electric have gone up massively and with it being winter soon/now consumption will go up massively.

How long has you board been at that rate???

12 years ago I paid £30 a week board, while studying - it doesn't seem to be too far from that accounting for inflation, and the fact that I only worked part time and was at college rather than uni with student loans etc.

Gigervamp

Person_one wrote: »

Why though?

Living with family is not comparable to renting from a landlord, a landlord is in business to make profit from you, and you have a set of legal rights and responsibilities relating to the property.

Because you're costing the family money that they wouldn't have been paying out if you weren't there, what with extra electricity/gas/water and food.

Person_one

Gigervamp wrote: »

Because you're costing the family money that they wouldn't have been paying out if you weren't there, what with extra electricity/gas/water and food.

What does that have to do with how much it would cost to live elsewhere?