How much rent should my daughter pay

duchy

£60 for two people sounds very reasonable especially as heating costs probably tend to be higher with a baby in the house.

I'd also want to think about what message I'm giving the younger children and what happens if next week one of them announces they too are pregnant and expect the same deal from their parents.

Pollycat

lazer wrote: »

(Rent, food, heating, electric, phone, TV etc)

Not Necessarily

When I moved into my parents, there house was mortgage free and very low bills, it was a small 3 bed terrace bungalow.

I think it's probably rare for a young adult child - in this case a 19 year old - to live with their parents in a mortgage-free home.

In this particular case the OP's daughter is 19 and they have 2 younger children so I think it would be unlikely that the house is mortgage-free.

lazer wrote: »

So Council Tax/Rates - was about £500 a year- £10 a week
Food - for 3 people about £30 - £40 a week
TV Licence - £3 a week
Phone - About £20 a month - so £5 a week
Heating/Electric - about £25 a week

I'm assuming the figures above are per household, not per person.
As the OP has moved into a 'large' 4 bedroomed house I'd guess that council tax is likely to be more than the £500 pa your parents were paying.

You mention £20.00 per month phone.
Landline charges alone would probably swallow more than half that.
It's also possible the daughter has a contract mobile. Maybe, maybe not.

Not many families with 3 adults would be living on within a food bill of £40 per week - especially if you include toilteries.

There's also water rates and although my bill is small, others have mentioned amounts of up to £50 per month.

So I think missbiggles' comment:

missbiggles1 wrote: »

And that will come to a great deal more than £30 pw.

is probably nearer the mark than your figures.

ChemistDude

Increase the rent. What is she gonna learn by having a kid and expecting the state to pay for it? Better yet, what will the kid learn? Best to change practice now by forcing her to move out.

Pollycat

DesiBadBoy wrote: »

Increase the rent. What is she gonna learn by having a kid and expecting the state to pay for it? Better yet, what will the kid learn? Best to change practice now by forcing her to move out.

Says the guy whose parents gave him £90k towards a house & whose FIL paid £60k towards the wedding. :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

that isnt true.. she can save a deposit with her very generous income and pay her board of £70 a week.. I doubt she needs to spend £130 a week on clothes for her and a baby! .. so within 2-3 months she would have enough for a deposit for a rented place... and with a guarantor she can easily get her own place.

My son, gf and baby had a rented home at 16, I got a mortgage at 18 with a toddler.. DS1 then got a second house whilst 19 and on benefits... and is now on his third home having added a baby which he moved into at 20.

We later got a council house whilst on a student income (grant+loan+child benefit)

I didn't realise the housing market was quite so easy up your way - it certainly isn't anywhere round here; hence how I acquired a housemate, as despite her earning significantly more than me and being far more creditworthy, she has been turned down by every lettings agency on the credit check for even scabby bedsits because she changed her job.

One of the guys I went to school with owns a lettings company. He prided himself on being the only one still to accept social housing/benefit tenants until two years ago, but even he dropped out of the market after too many occasions where his tenants had their benefits stopped without warning or the direct payments failed to materialise for months on end. Now he uses the same credit checks as everybody else so he can get insurance for the rent.

I think it's pretty much the same throughout the Southeast at least.

Beckyy

If she isn't saving for her own place I would say £200-300 a month certainly isn't unreasonable. At £30 a week I would expect her to pay for everything else herself, food, mobile etc.

ChemistDude

Pollycat wrote: »

Says the guy whose parents gave him £90k towards a house & whose FIL paid £60k towards the wedding. :rotfl:

Aye but my wife an I earn £100k combined in salary, we have £43k mortgage left on our £220k house and have bought a BTL investment flat with over 35% deposit. All done in last 3.5 years since wedding.

So my point is we have learned the value of money, we got an education, we dont sponge on benefits, and we don't expect the state to pay for our child.

mark5

Pollycat wrote: »

Just checked - we pay £15.21 per month.

Although there's only the 2 of us, we are both retired so in the house more than a working couple.

We go out a lot so I do have a lot of washing.

And eat 3 meals a day so there's a fair amount of washing
up too.

Back on topic:

It's a pity the OP hasn't cleared a few questions up - such as explain his comment 'living the high life' - but if reading other people's opinions has helped, I guess that's a good thing.

How old is your water meter?

It sounds to me like it's slowing down and not recording your proper volume of use, flushing the toilet about 110 ish times will cost you about £5 alone between water and drainage.
You must flush 10 times per day between you, that's £15 per month, unless Welsh water are charging us more for water?

Pollycat

mark5 wrote: »

How old is your water meter?

It sounds to me like it's slowing down and not recording your proper volume of use, flushing the toilet about 110 ish times will cost you about £5 alone between water and drainage.
You must flush 10 times per day between you, that's £15 per month, unless Welsh water are charging us more for water?

Almost 25 years, the same as all the houses on our development.

We were paying just under £17.00 pm in 2006, the most we've paid is £23.50 pm in 2010.

pollypenny

mark5 wrote: »

How old is your water meter?

It sounds to me like it's slowing down and not recording your proper volume of use, flushing the toilet about 110 ish times will cost you about £5 alone between water and drainage.
You must flush 10 times per day between you, that's £15 per month, unless Welsh water are charging us more for water?

Having paid £24 or so pm for years, last year we were surprised to find Dwr Cymru had dropped our D/D to £13.50.

Very odd, although we are away for about two months each year.