Her Dad Is Letting Her Live Rent-Free In One Of His Apartments, And Now That Her Boyfriend Is Moving In Too, Her Dad Expects Him To Pay Rent But He Doesn’t Think It’s Fair
This twenty-three-year-old woman has been dating her boyfriend, Jake, since they both entered their freshman year of college.
They stayed together throughout their studies and, during their senior year, finally decided to get an apartment together.
At the time, they both decided that the costs of everything– such as rent, utilities, and groceries– should be split fifty-fifty. And this worked out for a while until they both changed jobs.
“We continued living together in that same town as our college after graduation, but, recently, we both got jobs in Chicago and are living downtown,” she explained.
More specifically, her father actually works in real estate and has a bunch of investment properties in the area. So, he has been allowing her to live in one of the properties rent-free.
But, her boyfriend was not afforded the same exact deal. Instead, her father asked her boyfriend to pay him four hundred dollars a month in rent.
“My dad is very protective, but he has been nothing but kind to my boyfriend. And his reasoning for making my boyfriend pay rent is that he wants to make sure my boyfriend is with me for me, and not because he will have a free place to live,” she said.
Plus, if her dad really were to rent out the apartment to a normal tenant, he could be charging just over two thousand dollars per month. So, her boyfriend is still getting an insane deal to live in a very high-end building right in the heart of downtown Chicago.
However, her boyfriend did not really see it that way. In fact, he believed that she would be splitting the four hundred dollars with him every single month.
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So, when he found out that her father was only charging him, he was pretty confused. Apparently, he thought that since they had already been splitting rent for the past two years while at college, they had no reason to stop now.
“But, our rent in our college town was one thousand and two hundred dollars, so we were both paying six hundred dollars a month. Our apartment in Chicago is significantly nicer, and he is paying two hundred dollars less a month than when he was in college,” she recalled.
Plus, she is still splitting the cost of utilities, groceries, and date nights with her boyfriend.
Nonetheless, he is still pretty ticked off about her father’s rent arrangement.
So now, she is not sure if her boyfriend is basically failing her father’s “test.” Or, if her boyfriend is right and she should just “suck it up” and pay half since she can afford it.
Do you think her boyfriend is acting a bit entitled? Isn’t four hundred dollars a month still an insanely good deal? What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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