Hi OzBargainers,
Just need some thoughts into this. I got this guy renting out one of my room for $140/week (include water, gas, electricity and NBN. His family overseas is visiting him for one month, a wife and 2 kids (14 and 12yrs old).
Question is how much extra would I make him pay for the extra 3 people?
i let 2 stay in my exercise room with a queen size sofa bed and the other use his room while he sleep on the couch
Eh, wife not sleeping in same bed with him?
OP is giving the wife a discount.
$420 hehe
lol that's like renting a whole house excluding fees
look on Airbnb at how much nearby places are going for, for a room and add the cost of utilities
Multiply by three, occupying three room
Family visiting and they actually want to stay with your housemate? There's probably no amount they can afford that would make it worth your while, why did you agree to do this?
not yet he just asked
the right answer is no, or charge what a real B&B would charge for having two kids and an adult to hang around for week. You will be cleaning up after them and they will be in your bathroom when you need to use it.
yeh i probably say no was thinking it might worth it if the price is right
Couldn't agree more! There is simply no way I'd allow this. You will basically lose the entire amenity of your house for the time they are here.
If it were me, and I'm being quite serious here, the cost would be whatever it would cost me to find alternative accommodation for the month (which would be in a serviced apartment of equivalent standard to my house), plus the cost of food and other expenses, plus the cost of someone periodically monitoring my house, plus my "profit" for being put out. They simply couldn't afford it … and more to the point it would cost more them more to pay for me to do it, than it would cost them to find their own alternative arrangements for the month.
Do you want that many people staying in your place??
yeh nah too many
They are his wife and teenagers. What are they coming for? How long? Would they stay in the house most time or go out? Much cooking?
Are they your country people?
Do you live alone? Working fulltime?
It looks like you dont mind them staying but just want to know how much. To me the price for long term is different fron short term, it depends on the answers to the above.
But I think most important to have House Rules.
was thinking maybe it worth letting them stay but after all these comments i don't think i can handle that many people in the same house
why not do a deal where he covers the cost of your accodomation somewhere reasonable and go on a holiday?
or live in hotel near your work or something
yeh he suggest in moved in the master bedroom for a month as i have that room for spare and not for rent. Told him the only people that can sleep on my bed is girls!!!
just double it to $280 while they are there…its extra money and only for a few weeks :)
yeh $280 definitely not worth it for me
x 3 or 4 since they're occupying 3 rooms instead of 1
3 more so he going to sleep on my couch :( while 2 in his room and i got a sofa bed in my gym room
yes, 3 more people or occupying 2 more rooms (the living room and the gym room) - depending on how you look at it
Air BnB rates for your local area.
Where I am near the CBD the cheapest is $60 per person, per night. Maybe give them a 10% discount off that.
Unless you know that they are going to repay you for the inconvenience. I stay at a lot of friends p;aces when I travel and try and take them out or buy something useful. I stayed at my oldest friends place in jan with my kids. I bought them a long HDMI cable (they liked mine) and a compost tumbler and a branch lopper. Cost me about $300 but still cheaper than staying elsewhere.
If they don't like it then let them find alternative accommodation. If there are kids your plumbing will take a massive hit and your elec bills will be massive.
true that was thinking kids going to messed up my place. I'm very obsessed about cleaning. The bills probably skyrocket. Not worth it for me
Worth it as long as you charge enough. Charge too little and your lodger will want to do it all the time.
The first time do it as a short stay so that if it is going pear-shaped you know it will be over soon.
there's a price for everything
if it covers airbnb rate (which includes rent, utilities and cleaning), that's gotta be worth something
Yeah no, I don't like strangers at my place.
If you really need the money, fair enough, but if you are not desperate for money, its a no.
I don't know why but this gives me the feeling that they are Indians?
100%
Lol they’re asian. Yeh I have so many Indians trying to offer for the rooms before I’ve decline them all.
If he's been a decent housemate I'd just suck it up and let them stay for free. Might get more brownie points out of it than charging him extra or force him to stick his family into a nearby AirBnB.
Lol maybe if he got 2 hot daughters yeh sure but a wife and 2 teenage boys for a month.
Wouldn't it have been cheaper for him to visit them rather than them visiting him?
Charge them. Not for rent or anything but for utilities. Electricity gas water and a reasonable amount on top for inconvenience. Asian They will not compensate you later. Or maybe check with your mate before hand if he would think they would. Let him know if not you’ll charge utilities plus a little. Utilities will skyrocket and you’ll regret it once they’ve gone and the bills come in otherwise. It’s only for a month. Yes it will be inconvenient and you’ll wonder why you did it but it will come and go and you never know you could make fantastic friends and have somewhere to stay if you ever travel to their hometown.
Are they all going to fit in the same room? I don't think I'd be happy with that happening.