Or is he - moving costs after relationship end.

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Ex has lived with me, rent free but paying half the bills, for 5 years. In that time he’s been able to rent out his own place to the tune of £1800 a month which he has been putting in savings.

So we’ve split up, and he has moved out and back into his own place. He lives 3 hours away, so with various trips and van hire, it’s cost him £220.

In the process of sorting out finances and our joint account etc, and he has asked me to pay half of his moving costs.

I’ve told him he’s being completely unreasonable - it’s not my problem that he lives 3 hours away and needed to hire a van.

From a guy who earns at least 4 times my salary, he’s just being a CF, right?

Why do you even need to ask? Tell him to pay for his van out of his savings.

I can see why he’s an ex. Whoever’s stuff gets moved sorts the cost!

Of course YANBU!

Did he give you half the savings?

Hahahaha tell him to get to fuck

Absolutely a cf !

The only appropriate response to that is to laugh in his face.

Hahahahahahaha is the only response he deserves. Cheeky bastard.

Tell him that he should take it out of the thousands of pounds in rent he has (literally) saved

Are you taking only what you contributed to the joint accounts? Did you contribute equally or did he contribute more? If you’re only taking your contribution, then fair enough he pays his moving costs. If he contributed more and your expecting to take half then yes the moving costs should also be split.

Shame it’s via email and I won’t get the chance to laugh at him in person.

Of course I won’t see half of the savings.

I told him only a few months back that I was worried that if we got married and split up, he would try and take half. Got soooooo many resssurances that of course he isn’t like that, he would never do that etc. The true colirs come out now, eh? Thank FUCK I didn’t marry him.

He wants everything splitting in half. Including his half back of things like the washing machine, fridge etc that we bought together when he lived here.

I think you can say you want half of the rent money he's made for the years he's rented out for £1800! If it was the other way around and you moved in with him and rented your house out, would he have let you take all the profit from the rental?

Can't believe he's asking you for half of the furniture etc!

Ha.
Tell him you'll pay half of everything he bought if he finally coughs up half the rent he owes on every month he lived with you.

Wanker

Of course he does.

No problem,

Half the rent you earned please.

Half the rent you didn't pay me please.

Bye bye

You should tell him you'd have happily put his stuff in the bin for free.

Cocklodgers gonna cocklodge. Until the bitter end.

Genius!!!

I must say it’s really helping me move from sad to just bloody furious. What an absolute knob!!!

Did you miss the part where he had free housing for five years, allowing him to rent his own property out and make a tidy profit?

Did you even read the original post?

My guess is no.

Good! Sounds like you're well rid. Buy yourself a bottle of champagne and toast good riddance to this man!

Good job you got rid of him now, imagine if you’d married the guy!

Respond with a bill for half the monthly market rent x 60.

I know!! It was his long term plan that we get married and live in a house owned by me and live off the money coming in from his properties. When I voiced my worries that it would leave me in a rather precarious position he was adamant that he wasn’t that kind of person, would never want half of my house etc. I’m glad I trusted my gut instinct about it. I was worried about losing it all (again - my ex took the piss when we split up too).