charging rent for son and daughter

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Hi
just joined the site. At the moment we are charging our son £80 a month for living at home, he has a good job and brings home about £700 a month, our daughter started her job about 4 months ago but because she is only part time and brings home about £380 a month we only charge her £40 a month, are we doing right with this as our son is complaining because he has to pay more.

Blimey, that is really cheap!

When I was living at home and working full time (after uni) I got paid £533 a month after tax and NI and paid my mum £130 a month.

DH and I were dating at that point and he lived at home earning about £800 a month after tax and NI and paid £250 a month.

We worked out pretty quickly that it wouldn't cost us much more to get our own place. Isn't that the point of charging your kids rent??

Hi Everyone
Had a long talk with my son and told him that his rent is to go up and that if he didnt like it he can move out, he went very quite for once but seems ok about it.
I'm really glad that I found this site and to get some really good points about my question. Thanks again for all our messages.