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Can Friends Live Together?
To help both of us meet expenses, I'll be renting a basement room to a friend soon. She'll have a six month or one year lease covering rent and utilities. I have questions about sharing the laundry room and kitchen (neither of us are home enough to cook much), and wonder what details I haven't thought of. Can anyone share from their experience?
Thanks,
Linda
Discuss It First
Friends are hard people to rent to. It's not that they just take advantage, it's that things are not discussed in full detail before the agreement is made. Everyone has their own ways and things that may seem not a big deal to some really become a problem to the other person. Things that should be discussed before renting to the friend is food, even though you aren't home enough to cook you still have staples like milk, coffee, bread, butter and those sort of things. Set a fixed price that you both put in the cookie jar each week for the staples. If you're sharing a single bathroom you know that you eventually start using each others items. You need to put aside a small amount of money for necessities for the bathroom. Toilet paper, toothpastes, shampoos and things that one needs for personal hygiene items. I know it sounds stupid but trust me these things become an issue. The issue of pets should be discussed. Over night visitors should be also discussed. ( how long of a stay from an overnight visitor makes him/her another renter). I rented to a friend who hid her boyfriend for 3 months. That is an added expense that you didn't calculate. If your living on a budget the extra showers and linen and food is a big deal. I found that the most important thing when renting to a friend is to remember that it is a friend and to allow them their own space. All too often friends that room together get way too involved with each others personal situations. Just remember that you have a life now while your friend is not living in the same house as you and you should keep some parts of your life your own and allow each other the opportunity to grow as individuals and to be friends but friend s with a special respect for each others privacy.
H.
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