How much do you expect my rent to go up by in a house share?
Posted: April 7th, 2022, 1:29 pm
I'm based in Newcastle and I have a housemate who owns the house. I pay my rent to her.
The property is a 3 bed semi detached (the other bedroom has been turned into her dressing room) worth around the £235k mark I reckon (she bought it 2 and a half years ago for £215k).
I pay £550 a month rent and I don't worry about bills.
She's on a fixed term metre which will be going up in August so I expect my rent to go up alongside.
I'm considering leaving because I pay a lot for rent already for Newcastle standards and it's going to go up further. I get that all property rents will go up due to energy going up however the base rental costs in other properties could be far lower.
How much do you expect the bills to go up by? And to make sure I don't get ripped off, do you think however much they go up by we should split the cost of this?
I mean, if I didn't live here there would be a lot of costs she pays anyway so by me being there it hasn't necessarily doubled in price and therefore I maybe shouldn't be expected to pay half of it. Eg she would have the heating on regardless of if I lived here or not.
Eg if it goes up by £100 a month, should we split it and I pay £50? That might not seem right using my argument in my previous paragraph.
I could be completely off here by I expect my rent to go up by £10-20 a month. Does that sound right?
The property is a 3 bed semi detached (the other bedroom has been turned into her dressing room) worth around the £235k mark I reckon (she bought it 2 and a half years ago for £215k).
I pay £550 a month rent and I don't worry about bills.
She's on a fixed term metre which will be going up in August so I expect my rent to go up alongside.
I'm considering leaving because I pay a lot for rent already for Newcastle standards and it's going to go up further. I get that all property rents will go up due to energy going up however the base rental costs in other properties could be far lower.
How much do you expect the bills to go up by? And to make sure I don't get ripped off, do you think however much they go up by we should split the cost of this?
I mean, if I didn't live here there would be a lot of costs she pays anyway so by me being there it hasn't necessarily doubled in price and therefore I maybe shouldn't be expected to pay half of it. Eg she would have the heating on regardless of if I lived here or not.
Eg if it goes up by £100 a month, should we split it and I pay £50? That might not seem right using my argument in my previous paragraph.
I could be completely off here by I expect my rent to go up by £10-20 a month. Does that sound right?