Boyfriend moving in... how much should he pay?

Red-Squirrel_2

Tink21 wrote: »

The £145 includes water, gas, electric, council tax, broadband, tv licence. It doesn’t include house insurance (as the house is mine), and does not include day to day living items such as food as we already split those as those costs arise.

You must have really good deals on all your bills and live somewhere with very cheap council tax if £145 is really half.

Contents insurance should be included in what he pays.

LadyDee

phryne wrote: »

To be fair, babies don't just "arrive", lol.
Something specifically has to happen (or not happen ) in order for a pregnancy to occur.

Going slightly off topic in any case..

And to be fair, I wonder how many babies are unplanned. I don't think it's going off topic at all - babies will be a very real possibility, of course they will, and should form a definite entry under the "what if" column.

hazyjo

Your bills are only £290? Sounds cheap to me. Council tax, TV, sky or other provider? Broadband, insurance, gas, electric, water/sewage, etc?

I wouldn't accept more than half the bills, but maybe they can say for the odd holiday or something? Plus savings in their name only to put towards something if you eventually buy together.

Tink21_2

I’ve double checked and all in the household bills come to £284, that includes broadband, gas, electric, water, council tax and tv licence. I don’t have sky tv, waste of money lol! So half the bills would equate to £142. I hadn’t thought about adding on the contents insurance?

Tink21_2

Thank you pmlindyloo, I have looked at the link and found it helpful. It seems unlikely in our circumstance that he would be able to declare a beneficial interest in the house should we split up if he were to only pay half the bills?

Primrose

I,d go for paying half the bills which include household insurance, Council tax and groceries, keeping the mortgage in your wn name and him starting a savings account in his own name for any eventual joint house purchase together.

That keeps it simple and equitable in the case of a split and he,d be having to lay out for all those things anyway in some for. Ormother if he were renting a place on his own.

WibblyGirly

Just to add about the bills, you say he comes back for weeks at a time? Will he be in the house more when you're at work?
My partner works from home so we have higher bills than usual in winter as the heating is on during the day too. If your boyfriend is home during the day in winter the bills might be higher than you expect.
Instead of a set amount of money, I'd just half all the bills as they come in so he may pay more in winter than summer but so will you.

Ames

Don't forget that your council tax will go up as you'll lose your 25% single occupancy discount.

Tink21_2

We discussed the increase in council tax and potential for the bills to fluctuate and he’s happy to just split them 50/50 as they come in rather than stick with a fixed amount. I will say, he’s not trying to be tight with money, we both just want to do this the fairest way possible. Thank you all for your responses, it’s really helped!

Zero_Sum

Ames wrote: »

Don't forget that your council tax will go up as you'll lose your 25% single occupancy discount.

As will water if on meter. As will electric & gas a little also as you'll generally use a bit more. (Both probably a lot more of other way round if we follow gender stereotypes, which were true in my case)