Sharing a House questions . Your Views

[hahahavefun]

Married couple both working full time with a rough estimate income of $1600 a week take home and a Single mum of one rough income of $600 a week looking at going in to share a house .Married couple wants an extra bedroom for visitors .

Married couple will move to a much nicer area a better house and pay no more then they are currently while single mum already lives in the area and will pay about the same as she is already .

-Married couples electricity is always around the $400 mark while single- mums electricty is only ever 250

Your views on who should pay what and how much ? For example should the rent be split 3 ways or Havles and should electricty be halved or 3 ways ??

[freddie*rooster]

Extra bedroom for visitor's? is that for use by both married couple and single mum?

Re: power/water/gas I would suggest the owner of the visitor's put in an extra $5-$10 per night of stay toward power water bill.

[freddie*rooster]

Oh and rent should be x 3

[hahahavefun]

Yes single mum would have use of spare room also .

Other peoples views are 3 names going on the Lease so rent should be split 3 ways , some have also said , when you go in to share a place it should be cheaper for you not more exspensive .

[cosmosgrove]

Halves in the rent, thirds in the electricity.

[grandmoon]

Does the single mum have children with her and if so how many ??

It would make a difference to what she should pay.

[hahahavefun]

Married couple- cant afford to move to the area which is costal on their own , they will be moving 60klms to where single mum lives already . Single mum is ok in a way with havles in rent as she has a child but thinks she shouldnt have to pay anymore for electricty then she has been for the last 3 - 4 yrs should the bill come in higher and halves be more then what she has been paying .

[hahahavefun]

One child .

[j*oono]

If there is no real benefit in sharing for the single mum, why would she consider it?  She already lives in a good area and must be paying reasonable rent.

Even the best of friends may not be that way for long if you have to share a home with them.

[imastawka]

I agree with joono.  What's the benefit for the single mum?

If she'll be paying the same in rent what's the up-side?

Downside will be loss of privacy and arguments over bills, noise etc

Forget who pays for what....She's crazy to consider it