My brother, a friend, and I are moving into my parents old house. It's a 3 bedroom two bath. My brother thinks that because the rent is so cheap ($800 for a 3 bedroom house, fully furnished), that his girlfriend and him should only pay $267 a month plus 2/4 of utilities and he is demanding the master bedroom because there are two of them. Now, fuck me if I'm wrong, but when you are renting a place you pay for the amount of space you occupy. The living room, kitchen, garage are included in this amount of space you occupy. They will have equal use of this space. So considering the master bedroom has a walk in closet and a bathroom, how much of the rent do you think they should be obligated to pay? It's not that I can't shit out $267 a month, it's just the principal. I mean, they are only going to be paying $133.5 a month, and legally, the rent ceiling could be raised 10% due to an extra occupants. Honestly, since his girlfriend is such a skank and is so freaking annoying, I think it would be fair that they pay all the rent just because me and the room mate would have to put up with her stupidity :
lol This just reminded me of far too many roommate horror stories. Normally I'd say just split it evenly. But in this case, look at it this way... if they're in a bigger room with it's own bathroom, it's less space you have to share with her (she won't be occupying the bathroom all morning or before going out at night), so it might be worth dealing with it just to keep her a bit more out of your hair.
To be honest I think they should be paying whatever you're paying... asking for a cut is just being selfish. If you get the master bedroom you shouldn't whine about having to pay the same as everyone else.
Or you could always tell your brother that you and your friend would gladly share the master bedroom, and he and his girlfriend can have separate rooms if that makes them feel better about paying the same amount. Maybe then they'll stop and look at it as a perk instead of something they're "putting up with" that deserves a discounted rent.
lol they are not going to be paying what I am paying if they are going to have the master bedroom. Honestly, that room is big enough to throw a party in... Originally my brother wasn't going to be living here so I was going to pay 350 for the master bedroom and rent the other 2 rooms for 225 to some friends. It took me a week to explain to them that they can not pay 1/3 of the utilities, because everyone uses about the same amount of utilities (water, electricity, cable, etc etc) The point is that his chick will be sitting in the living room taking up space, scaring off the hot chicks at party's, using the kitchen. I've seen things before where people will be advertising a room in the house and they determine how much the person is paying for the room and how much they are paying for the use of the living room, kitchen, garage, (parking space) etc etc, due to rent ceilings. For example, if there are 3 rooms in a house and the rent is 1500, it is illegal to lease a room for 700 UNLESS the amenities in that room make it more valuable. So, for a master bedroom a roomate may pay 600 while the other roomates pay only 450 apiece. I've also seen where people will rent a room in the house and the sublease can't use the garage, making it illegal to charge 1/3 of the rent for a room. I was just checking to see if anyone knew how that stuff worked. It's not just about her living there for practically free, she will have friends over hanging out in the living room and annoying the crap out of me. Now, I really don't mind chicks friends, more chicks to spit game at. Buttt.. when they are fat ugly dikes, her friends being over isn't going to get me any play. Well... I could easily get some play, but I have standards you noe. I really hate this chick and her friends.
lol Well yeah... the hatred is a bit obvious. The rules are probably very location-specific. I know my college town was quite a bit different than where I am now, and it's not all that far. You would probably need to talk to someone local to figure out the nitty gritty of what's allowed and what's not.