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settle an argument for me (pg. 4)
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| TrickDaddE |
I been in a similar situation... it depends on if your renting the place together or as rooms?
I question If this is an argument already then what will happen when other issues occur?
You should divide the rooms equally and place a bit of a surecharge on the room with 2 people in it to supplement the utilities if there are any!
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| Vivid Boy |
| if u stuck me with 40 while u and ur bf paid 60 i'd clean my dishes with my out and make sure every intimate moment u have with ur bf was an awkward one. plus you would have to wax my back every second friday. |
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| Orko |
Split it three ways. Fine two of them share the bedroom, but the rest of the resources of the apartment will be shared by three people.
Bathroom, kitchen, living room, balcony, storage space... |
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| 5hiftn6ears |
Split 3 ways just like you do with the utilities...you wouldn't nit pick about who uses more water showering or who uses more electricity watching TV, square footage shouldn't be different.
But in this case I'd have Andrea pay 50%, and the other 2 25%:disbelief |
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| activate |
| IMO it should be split evenly. |
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| shanny |
For this one I am going to have to turn to my trusty friend ...
Long since the days of Einstein, Newton and Roosevelt, the worlds greatest minds have turned to this mythical number for answers
Who would have thought that a simple number like 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510, would be the answer to all of our problems?
It is the remedy to our poison, the good that overcomes evil, it is the answer of all answers.
How does it help you here you ask?
You have to find a perfectly circular apartment.
Then figure out how much of the diameter of the circle the couple takes versus the regular non-couple person, apply our friend pi and voila...the answer of all answers provides the best answer yet again. |
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| DigiNut |
When I was in university, there were 3 of us living in a 3 bedroom apartment, but one guy decided down the road that he didn't want to pay for some of the common expenses because he didn't "use" them (cable TV and what not).
Let's just say it didn't end with a smile on everyone's face.
What happens if the couple breaks up? Is the remaining member then going to continuing paying the ex's share? Or, like someone else asked, what if the single person decides to bring in somebody else?
And you just know that somebody, at some point, is going to try to assert their authority based on their higher rent/expenses. The single person will say he/she is paying the most so show some f-in' respect, and the couple will say no way, together they're paying a lot more, so suck it up and put a lid on it.
Also, the mathematical formula may seem sound, but consider that square footage doesn't scale linearly with price. That's just not how real estate works. There's a certain "base cost" inherent in every space that's just there, regardless of size. You'd have to come up with some estimate for what that is and deduct it from what you're splitting (and good luck agreeing on that number).
Oh, and are both bedrooms EXACTLY the same size? Are you sure? What about the shape? Highly rectangular spaces are often cheaper than perfect squares.
I'm an engineer, and I'm telling you not to try to do any complicated math here. These arguments never end. Unless you agree to split everything equally, there will be no end to the headaches. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Done. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chris Allen
Agreed with this answer. |
Ahh, similar voices of reason.
As I said in my first post, it should be 33/33/33 because it's not as if the girl with her boyfriend is upset about having to share a room with him, and as such the single girl should not be made to pay more. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
As I said in my first post, it should be 33/33/33 because it's not as if the girl with her boyfriend is upset about having to share a room with him, and as such the single girl should not be made to pay more. |
Despite agreeing with your conclusion, I don't consider that a sound argument. Personal comfort is irrelevant to monetary value and you have no idea if that comfort will be permanent.
A better way to settle the debate is to assert that an individual room in a rented apartment simply can't be monetized, for any or all of the reasons I pointed out above. It has no value by itself.
If there were only 1 person to rent the apartment, would she be able to rent just one of the rooms from the landlord, at a lower cost than the entire unit? That's what I thought. So don't try to put a price tag on each room. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Despite agreeing with your conclusion, I don't consider that a sound argument. Personal comfort is irrelevant to monetary value and you have no idea if that comfort will be permanent.
A better way to settle the debate is to assert that an individual room in a rented apartment simply can't be monetized, for any or all of the reasons I pointed out above. It has no value by itself.
If there were only 1 person to rent the apartment, would she be able to rent just one of the rooms from the landlord, at a lower cost than the entire unit? That's what I thought. So don't try to put a price tag on each room. |
You're getting way too into this. Also you're ing insane if you consider personal comfort to be irrelevant to cashola. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| Just whore out the two women and the guy pays the rent out of his pimp money. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Also you're ing insane if you consider personal comfort to be irrelevant to cashola. |
The #1 factor in a real estate price is location. #2 is size. #3 is age.
If who you ing share a room with is anywhere on that list, it's gotta be down below #100, haha.
I'm trying to be helpful. You're giving Andrea some bull emotional argument that's only going to stir up more drama. I'm proposing a totally rational one that effectively has no rebuttal. |
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