To think no adult kids would agree to pay this!

[Cruelstepmother]

Just found this 'how much rent could you charge your kids' calculator! www.comparethemarket.com/home-insurance/content/pa-rental/ - they suggested my cuckoo-back-in-the-nest stepson should be paying us £593.80 a month. What are your views?

Cruelstepmother

Wow. My husband and I have never earned 40K between us in our lives. why doesn't she buy a house?

Maybe she lives in central London, you couldn’t buy a studio flat for less than £300,000 where I live - £40k is nowhere near enough to buy.

Mine is £1012.08 per month! He will be 18 soon - I can't wait!!

£1,024 haha no chance. I used to pay 20% of my salary when I lived at home, he'll pay the same.

That calculator is just stupid

I just put my postcode in and it broke down gas and electric to around £110 per month

As a household we are paying that on DD so why should my teenage son have to pay all of it ?

I also just put in FIL’s postcode to see how it differs. Food £15 per month more at his postcode than mine. Food isn’t more expensive 15 miles down the toad.

What a load of old bollocks

THis thread has cracked me up. All of us looking forward to money we know we won’t get out of them, lol.

My DS is at uni, but once he starts working I suppose I will have to change him a portion towards rent, council tax, etc but nothing like £500+ as I want him out my house ASAP so I need him to save towards his mortgage deposit :-D

I started work in 1973 and earned £12
I gave my mum £3 per week
In late 90s early 2000s my daughter was giving me about £150/200 per month
I can’t imagine adult kids giving their parents the amounts I am seeing on here.

Mine comes up at £730.80!

One way to get rid of them though (or is that just me?)

£571
I dont even pay that for all my bills.

Fantastic, the rent element is more than our mortgage.

Flipping heck- £1,024 for me!!

I live in jersey so prices are high..... but flip! 🤦‍♀️

Don’t have adult kids but checked 2 addresses....it makes no sense to me

Address A - £675 upmarket area/expensive privately owned homes.
Address B - £731 council estate, low monthly rent

£665

I’m gonna be rich!!!

Rich i tell you!!!!

I need to increase the rent i charge for my 28 and 26 year old asap! clearly they are paying peanuts at the moment.

I wonder how closely the rent is linked to student multi occupancy housing rents? Because they are outrageous...

£450 for me, although my eldest child is only 10! The estimate for gas and electricity is more than what we pay for the whole house every month though.

Haha my 4 plus their 2 partners don’t pay the amount stated on that site between them !!!!

Mine came out at (rounded)
Rent £400
Food £100
Gas/elec £111

I think we'd ask for something towards food and utilities but nowhere near £600.
Obviously would depend on what they were earning but, based on those figures, maybe £200/mth probab,y on the condition some money was saved for house xeposit/rainy day.
I would also expect some help around the house, too.

I always paid a quarter of my income to live with my parents, I think that's fair.

Ah, bollocks. Read this thread with great enjoyment, except DD is 2.

£664.80 + 2 children living at home = I can quit my job (woohoo!). Shame they're only 6 & 2

I think £568 with all bills and food included is very reasonable. I paid my mum half my wages when I lived at home at 18. It was just the two of us so we split everything 50/50.
What you have to take from your kids depends on your financial situation but I don’t understand why an adult shouldn’t be expected to contribute meaningfully to the household.

Mind came out at £660 which is slightly less than a room in a house share would cost locally.

£698.80 for mine.

They aren't adults so couldn't pay it even if I did charge that much! But I wonder if I'd have a good case for their father to pay half of that amount as maintenance

no fucking way as he's a maintenance dodging arsehole

That is ridiculous, if I charged my two adult kids for rent (I do not, they are at uni so actually I pay them an allowance, so its all very academic) I would be raking in nearly as much from the two of them that I pay in rent for the whole 4-bed house. These figures are way out...