If you have a lodger, who pays for things like

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Lightbulbs, cleaning products for communal areas, if a fixture breaks (new coat hook for example) things such as this?

Landlord? Split cost? Depends?

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Landlord.

Landlord.

I (landlord) pay for light bulbs, coat hooks and small breakages etc. But expect lodger to buy his share of loo roll, tea bags, sugar.

The home owner would generally pay for all property upkeep and repairs

Landlord

Cleaning products: landlord too

Landlord definitely.

Cleaning products - all users
The rest - landlord

Landlord
My lodger will occasionally buy a pack of loo roll or kitchen towel but all costs really are mine

Landlord. 100%.

Are you the landlord or the lodger in this scenario?

I wouldn't expect the lodger to buy anything really except personal toiletries and their own food. Probably cleaning products for the bathroom if they have an ensuite, but no biggie if they don't.

Eagerly awaits the likely batshit scenario behind the question.

Iandlord for definite!

Landlord, although any of my lodgers would have offered to pay if they broke something.

Landlord for lightbulbs, hooks etc but we used to each put 20 month in a pot that was for shared things - bread, milk, butter, toilet roll, cleaning products etc

I don't even think Landlord is the right word here - 'homeowner' maybe?

When it's a lodger, not a tenant, then really absolutely everything, except their own food and personal toiletries, should be included. Set a rent that you feel covers this and job done. In houseshares then a lot of that stuff will be for the tenants to buy between them. But when someone is living with the homeowner then it's a totally different dynamic and I would expect everything to be included.

Landlord/homeowner without a doubt

Landlord for 'maintenance' stuff. Although when you're deciding on the lodger's rent, this kind of stuff should be taken into account.

We charge our lodger one amount of 'rent' that covers not just the room and bills/maintenance but loo roll, cleaning products etc as well as most food – we share a fruit and veg box and tend to use a lot of the same basics like rice, tins of tomatoes etc, and cook for each other a lot, so for us it makes sense.

Lightbulbs, minor wear and tear, cleaning equipment - landlord. Cleaning products depends on arrangement

Landlord.

Although if I was a lodger I’d probably just buy a lightbulb myself if it was for the fixture in my room.