Splitting costs in shared accommodation

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My daughter and two friends are moving in together. The friends are a couple. All girls. It's a three bedroom house. Couple have master bedroom with ensuite. Dd has bedroom and main bathroom. Third bedroom will be an office. One of the other girls works from home 95% of the time. Dd and other girl rarely work from home. Kitchen/dining room, sitting room and utility. Dds bathroom will be used by visitors. Dds boyfriend will stay occasionally, doesn't live near. All will go home some weekends. What way do you think rent and bills should be split. Bills are electricity and WiFi. I'm asking because couple think it should be a 50/50 split but dd and I don't think that's fair. All three names will be on lease. They are all mid 20s and working.

Each pay a third.

It should be split 3 ways, if there's 3 people living there. If the couple were to break up then splitting it 50/50 would cause an issue with payment.

I would say split by 3. Just because the couple only use one bedroom to sleep, one is using the third bedroom as an office and they are using the rest of the house equally. They are cheeky to suggest 50/50.

a third each

Third each.

It should be split three ways. The couple share a room but it's a big room with an en suite and one of them also uses the home office and they will all use the utilities. 50/50 isn't fair
What is your daughter going to do ?

Definitely a third each. I’d be nervous about moving in with a couple who thought they should only pay 25% each. They sound like chancers

If anything the couple with the master suite should pay more unless the third bedroom is very small then it would even itself out.

I would split 3 ways too

Three ways

Also WFH person will be using more electricity etc as home all day. You need to discuss heating etc before moving in together.

Why should your daughter pay 50% of this. Cheeky fuckers. 3 people equals 1/3 each.

Definitely 1/3 each.

Does your daughter have a partner? If so she should suggest to the others that he/she also moves in so her rent is halved too. See what they make of that.

If they insist on 50/50 tell her to walk away.

A third each without a doubt.

Are they also the kind of couple who buy DD one drink from them both as ‘their’ round and expect her to buy them one each on her round?

Third each

The only thing that’s really relevant is how they choose to do it between them, but it does sound like each person is making fairly equal use of the facilities which would be equal shares. The non home working member of the couple maybe gets a slightly short straw.

But essentially:
Kicthen use - equal 33/33/33
Living area use - equal
Master bed - couple 50/50, other person none.
Bed 1 - home working 90 other two barely. (5/5)
Bed 2 - daughter 100
Master bathroom.(half points) Daughter 40 others barely (5/5).

adds up to:
Office working couple person - 126
WFH couple person - 211
daughter - 211

Out of 550

Third each

Third each. Practically speaking, couple ate renting the biggest and smallest bedroom.

A third, the couple have use of a master bedroom with en suite and a smaller bedroom for office, your DD is using 1 bedroom the couple have 2. The one working from home will probably use more electric.

Split three ways or your daughter should walk away as she will be subsiding the others.
To be honest, moving in with a couple has disaster written all over it.

A third. I was going to say 1/4 because your daughter has to share her bathroom and the other person has a study to wfh. They are cf!

A third each.

I don't think this is going to work out well for your daughter. There's always going to be two against one and they've already shown themselves to be unreasonable.

Each pay a third ( if couple want to divide it up differently between themselves -fine)

I'd be encouraging your DD to line up a plan B though.
This sounds like it will be a mess and there will be resentment even if they "agree" something and it'll be 2 vs 1