How much rent would you say was reasonable?

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Family member lives with us, pays £200 a month and he gets a room, wifi, shares the family bathroom and gets a couple of meals with us a week. He cleans his own room but has never cleaned anywhere else in the house, buys his own food, does his own washing (or gives it to MIL ), either MIL or his GF changes his bedding "Because it's a man thing, men can't do duvets." According to MIL

But his girlfriend stays most weekends which we don't mind, then on a Monday when he goes to work, the GF will stay in his room most of the day watching TV. She'll cook for them and somehow use most of the pots in the kitchen, she leaves lights on wherever she goes and regularly buys food and then abandons it in our fridge until it goes rotten and we end up binning it. She tries to wash up after herself when she's cooked but she does a really crap job so we have to do it all again (we discover the half washed pans after she's already left to go home )

Anyway. With all this in mind, how much rent would you charge? I think we should put it up but DH doesn't want to "Because we hardly do anything for him."

At least double! Have a look at how much it would cost elsewhere.

We undercharged someone once for living with us (a friend, around the same amount). He could have paid more but we undercharged because we thought he might contribute in other ways (topping up loo roll, cooking the occasional dinner/buying wine occasionally etc). He was wonderful to live with but never contributed to the household in the way we hoped and it left me feeling that we perhaps should have had lower expectations but charged a bit more! So I'd say if you're talking about someone who isn't going to make much of a contribution beyond rent, then charge what you feel you need to to make it worth your while!

Sounds like he has the benefits of a typical house share. Depending on your area, I think an additional £150 - £200 would be reasonable.

Family member? Step son?
If so then £200 a month seems reasonable.
It seems the problem is more the GF making a mess and putting up the rent won't stop that.

Depends on your location but this is what I paid when at uni 10 years ago for a room in a 2 bed flat and no meals.

Husbands brother, so my BIL. And we're nowhere near London, up north-ish.

@dustypheonix this is how I feel. BIL is a joiner by trade and we let him move in with us on the condition that he put his joinery skills to use during our renovation. House is almost complete and he's done next to fuck all to help. He's been here nearly 3yrs (it's a long story).