Re: Would You Charge Rent?

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

I wouldn't charge rent if it was a temporary thing.

My youngest moved back for 4 months while the home he bought was being updated. Why would I charge him since he was doing grown up stuff and had completed his MSW?

If the child was on drugs, too lazy to work, abusive, jobless, can't hold a job, or has a history of not being a grown-up, I probably wouldn't allow him/her to move in at all. Tough love is harder on us than on an adult child.

reiki604 · ‎03-09-2010

@Pearlee wrote:
@reiki604 wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
@reiki604 wrote:
I think the answers to this question answers the one about why more woman are living on there own and not getting seriously involved with men who are still being taken care of by mommy with no responsibility for their maintainance.
@reiki604 Nobody asked that question.
Thank you so much for patrolling the content of this board in your position of board police. I hope QVC compensates you appropriately
@reiki604 It was compensation enough to know I got under your skin. My comment was just that -- a comment. No board policing involved. Touchy aren't you.

LOL!! You mistakenly think I care about your opinion. You have power and mean something to nobody but yourself. How cute! Now put on your tin star back on and go back on patrol so nobody else willl pay attention to you. .LOLOLOL .Now go away..

'I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man'.......Unknown

Jo1313 · ‎02-02-2021

Back in the 60's My Mom was always one to say..I get 10% of your take home pay..Dad didn't like the idea..but without arguing I gave her the 10%.

Low and behold in 1970 when I got engaged to DH..It was time to buy things to set up an apt. for married life..Mom handed me a brown envelope with all the 10%'s I gave her over the years to buy household stuff.

I never took money from my kids ..but the house rule was anything I find in the pockets doing laundry was mine..LOL

smoochy · ‎03-10-2010

@Mersha wrote:
@smoochy I am so very sorry that you lost your son.

Thank you. ❤️

MICHIGAN STATE MOM

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes wrote:
Seems like lots of enabling Mommies.

Wouldn't be surprised if they criticized same behavior in others.

Yes, I am enabling my daughter to save for a home down payment.

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

@jeepgrl wrote:
Many years ago after I graduated from High School and didn't know if I wanted to go to college, I worked full time and lived at home. May parents charged me a nominal amount for rent. After 2 years I decided I wanted to go to college. They handed me back all the rent money I had paid them.

The rent money was requested from them so I would understand that being an adult came with responsibilites.

@jeepgrl

and other posters.................

My parents also charged me a small rent fee when I turned 18.

You know, for the lesson value....

I was confident my dad would give it back to me when I got married at 20...

He bought a toilet with it for his house in the woods.

LOLOL

Posh Poodle · ‎06-27-2011

@Jo1313 About the teen years, my mother and I started creating a "hope chest". Over the years we both added to it. I had dishes on lay-away, and helped pay for them. Me and my family use them to this day.

It's a wonderful memory my mother and I share.

Posh Poodle · ‎06-27-2011

@smoochy My heartfelt condolences on your enormous loss.

Jo1313 · ‎02-02-2021

@Posh Poodle wrote:
@Jo1313 About the teen years, my mother and I started creating a "hope chest". Over the years we both added to it. I had dishes on lay-away, and helped pay for them. Me and my family use them to this day.
It's a wonderful memory my mother and I share.

Our first set of dishes was a service for 12 of Currier and Ives bought at A & P for like 39 cents a dish when you spent so much..I still use them 53 yrs. later.