I rent out a maisonette out which is due to become vacant. I’ve been divorced 10years.
My ExH is currently living in a friend’s spare room near his work site following a subsequent relationship breakdown. This means my DC are now a train journey away from him and can’t stay on weeknights due to room sharing, they’re too young for their own phones etc so are feeling the distance.
He’s been out of his relationship nearly 8mo and has made no concrete plans to move back.
I feel perhaps I should offer him the property with no deposit to give my children (and his younger ones) better access to their father, however I’m reluctant to as I worry renting to him would mean I couldn’t sell up without booting out numerous kids including my own. Oh, and any rent increases would be super awks. And obv renting to/from someone you know feels really odd.
On the plus I do know (relationships aside) he’s a reasonably reliable sort who isn’t going to open a brothel or I don’t know, take in hundreds of incontinent feral cats. Gainfully employed, no convictions or substance dependence etc.
My husband thinks it’s an awful idea to even countenance and is actually cross I’m even considering it which is making it hard for me to untangle…
Additional context would be the rental is the property ExH & I lived in and both these (and other) relationship breakdowns are due to infidelity on his part which does colour my DH’s reaction.
Am I being a complete mug for even considering this? Is my DH having a purely emotional reaction?