DC refusing to pay board

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My teenager has been offered a well paid job (over £20k) and refusing to pay board of £15/wk. What is reasonable?

Give him a Section 21.

Charge 150 a week. That's more reasonable.

thats fine they can move out as it’s clearly cheaper

£15 a week?! Hes getting an absolute bargain. Yanbu

20% of take home pay is generous on your side. Or they move out.

Give them 4 weeks notice to move out. See if they can find somewhere else to live for £15 a week.

Tell they pay or leave.

My refuser soon coughed up when she looked at the alternative properly.

One fifth of his take home pay or he moves out.
He is in the grown up world doing a grown up job for a grown up wage... treat him like one.
If he objects he can go look for a better deal elsewherw..
Hope he already does his own laundry and helps with cooking, shopping and the rest of the household chores!!

Charge market rent with a 20 percent discount

House rules about cleaning and contributions to meals etc

They can find a share house if they would prefer

Waiting for the mumsnet apologists to appear in the thread and say charging your own child anything at all is disgusting, lol.

Tell them it's now £30 a week for refusing your pretty fucking generous opening offer.

Wow £15 a week, you can’t even stay on a campsite for that.

Put your price up and tell them to look at local rental prices.

Agreed. Pay board or move out.

Tell him where he door is. £15 a week?!

£15 a week is cheap. When I moved out of my parents house in 2017 I was paying £75 a week and earning around £16,500.

I think your teenager needs to start realising how much private rent would be if they moved out. Then add in the bills and see how much they would be left with then.

At least £80 per week, absolute minimum!

They’re saving for a mortgage deposit so anything paid in rent makes that more difficult to achieve

They pay board or they move out - simples

That's life mate.

Take your stupidly cheap rent or they can pay way more rent elsewhere

Also have a car with all related costs

So you take the money and bank it and you can gift it back when they show you some respect
I’d say £100 a week excluding food and treats

When you say teenager are they still in education or left school and in full time employment? I would not charge a teen who was still in education but had a job as well but would charge if had left education and working full time.

I used to pay £25 per week. Tell them to naff off

I think it’s naivety rather than spite. It’s a young age to be offered such a generous salary and, straight out of school, it must be a lot to process

£15 quid a week is nothing, he’s being an entitled dick. Yes he’s saving for a mortgage but he still needs to contribute to the cost of housing him. £60 a month is a tiny amount £60 a week would be more reasonable!

tell him to move out and find somewhere else for cheaper if he doesn’t like it

£15/wk is a token amount.

Present them with an itemised bill covering share of mortgage/rent, utilities, council tax, insurance, food etc.

Might give them a wake up call as to how much living actually costs.