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?

[ChicCroissant]

I've just tried that and I think my DD would be paying almost the entire electric bill with her monthly share of it!

[Cruelstepmother]

That's the spirit, @ModreB ! Let them keep you in the style to which you intend to become accustomed... wonder if I could persuade our other 5 kids to move back in for a few years?

[LauderSyme]

thighof £650?? Blimey and I thought my parents were tight charging me £400 a month in the early nineties. My ds is still in primary school but I imagine if I do ever ask him for rent, I'll save it and give it back to him later. If I can afford to, anyway.

[INeedToGetHealthy]

£648.80 in my area

[Justaboy]

Ha! thats up the cock somethere!, no bloody way am I charging my offspring £1210 a month!!

[TheChildChomper]

£491.57 in my area

Broken down into them paying half the mortgage, a reasonable amount on food and the whole of the gas & electricity bills.

The food costs are the only costs I agree with, the rest are ludicrous.

Go with this calculator if you never want your adult offspring to ever afford a nest of their own!

[Pipandmum]

I don’t understand why gas and electricity is more in my post code than a London one, and the figure they give would cover all of us not just a share.
I’d only charge my child rent if they had a really good job - but if they did why would they live with me? I’d assume if an adult child moved back it was because they were saving to buy their own place or didn’t have a job. The former I might ask for a contribution to bills but not rent.

[Whatevermission]

My kids can stay in my house rent free for as long as they need/want to

[SleepingStandingUp]

I should be charging mine 23 P above my monthly rent!!

@AlmostAJillSandwich are you in a high rent area?

[mysteryfairy]

449 for us and we are 'charging' DS £325 i.e. £75 a week. He has an annexe so his own kitchen, living room and bathroom on top of the normal bedroom plus use of a car which we've taxed, MOTed and serviced so hopefully justifies our seemingly extortionate rate. It's all in an account for his future house deposit anyway...not that he knows that!

[pineapplebryanbrown]

I think their objective was to get me to move out, I did as quickly as I could get a loan for rental deposit (from my boss, not my parents).

[Tigger365]

502 a month. Both parents own their houses so I could take my household and mum could just go globetrotting 🙄

[Whatevermission]

mysteryfairy that's so lovely of you, he will be well chuffed when you give it to him

[Ohallright]

We’ve just offered DS and GF the top floor. So 2 rooms plus bathroom. Assume that counts as two adults so £1500 pcm according to checker 😮

But the idea is that they save the rent/expenses they would have paid towards a deposit. The idea is they save £2500 per month, so £45000 in 18 months, instead of paying ridiculous amounts for a room in a shared house......

[NitrousOxide]

Why does it expect one person to pay the entire utility bill? The whole thing smacks of greed to me.

I’m also not sure how it works. I put in two postcodes of places I’ve lived: a crappy area, and a much posher one with house prices at least double those of the first area, and it suggested charging more for the crappy one 🤷‍♀️

[Sobeyondthehills]

I should be charging my DS £300 more than my rent.

He is 7, however an extra £300 a month, might mean he is going to have to start working for a living

[veryboredtoday]

Seems about right for renting a room in my area. My brother pays my mum a fraction of that.
I'd be happy having adult children staying with me if they were saving up for a mortgage. Paying rent and saving is never going to work unless they are earning a fortune.

[GrandTheftWalrus]

578 for my "adult children" my dd is 2!

Says 391 of that is rent, my actual rent is 281pcm so I'd be 110 a month up just from her rent lol.

Better get her out sweeping chimneys lol.

[Ohallright]

The thing is, we need to heat the house anyway. We do not use the extra rooms, so a lot of it is “sunk costs”. I suppose extra water (long showers etc) and slightly higher food costs will not come to the amount on the checker. I think it may cost us an extra £250pcm to have them here. We will really enjoy seeing so much of them. So unless you plan to rent out to a stranger the figures are ridiculous!

[Cruelstepmother]

@GrandTheftWalrus aww poor little thing!

[Kokeshi123]

If I had adult children living at home and was reasonably well off, I'd charge them a reasonable amount of "rent" (not the amount here, though!) which went into an account for them, which would be their long-term housing deposit. That way, they can get on the property ladder themselves (and considering how much generational inequality there is about property these days, I'd certainly want to help my kids out), but also learn to understand the idea of living within your means and tailoring your daily expenses to take account of housing costs.

[LilQueenie]

This is seriously flawed. If I were to do this dd (if she was old enough to in the first place) would be paying my full rent! What if you had more than 1 child.

[whyohwhyowhydididoit]

£708 a month. We have 2 DC and a DC partner living here atm and they don’t give us that between them and we are still making a profit on having them here. We don’t charge them much as we want them to save for the future.

[Oliversmumsarmy]

I do think it is a bit off. £698 in my area.

More than my mortgage on a 4 bed house.

I think for not much more you could rent a flat round here and live for not a lot more

[BestIsWest]

£675? DD could rent a nice flat for £410 and a 3 bed house for £550.