Single person cheapest way of living

Albermarle

youth_leader said:

I've just tried it for my area, I've got 22 hits.  I think people can rent out a room and earn up to £7K per year tax free, and more people are doing it? 

In this case though the person would be a lodger, not renting as such.

This means they will have their own room, but may have to share a bathroom with the house owners, and will almost certainly have to share the kitchen. The door to their room has to remain unlocked.
There may be a restriction on having guests over, especially overnight.
They can be asked to leave ( or leave themselves) with very little notice.

If you actually rent a room in a shared house/HMO, then you will have a proper rental contract, which gives you more rights, and you can lock the door to your room.  Although the rental costs will typically be more than being a lodger.

Myci85

SarahB16 said:

youth_leader said:

My daughter shared a house with other students at Uni.  She had been able to save from her grant and tiny business on Etsy,  and when she left came home for a while and got a full time job with shift work.  I don't like driving in the dark and sometimes had to pick her up at midnight - she moved out to a professional house share.  She saved there too, and at 29, has just bought her first house with her boyfriend in NI.  They have rented it out for a year and are now in Canada having a great time.  I'm not having such a great time with her cat, who seems think I should be up at 5 am!

I once read of somebody who fed their cat at lunchtime for exactly this reason so they didn't wake him up.  The cat had its first meal of the day at say noon and had dry biscuits left out for it before they went to bed.  Not being a cat owner myself not sure how often you need to feed them but I presume the cat was also fed again perhaps at 6pm. 

I wonder if it's worth training the cat to be fed slightly later.  

Completely off topic, sorry OP, but other than coming in for a cuddle, none of my cats over the years have ever woken me up in the night/early morning. They've all been fed dry food only, with the odd wet pouch as a treat, and I just leave their bowls with food in for them to help themselves. None have ever been overweight. I think it is if they get wet food every meal they must get more pushy, and then your sleep suffers!