I pay $385 a month (my half of $770) and I live in a 1 br in Manhattan also.

This is in reply to those who think it's uncool to live at home in mid-late 20's.

I lived at home until 21 while getting my BA (no rent), then rented a room in a house when I went to another city for my graduate degree, and at 23 I moved to Las Vegas to live with sis and pay rent. Then my mom moved out here and I moved in with her (too many kids at my sis's house). I'm 24 and I pay her rent.

My point: If I lived in an apartment I would be giving money each month to a stranger. This way, it goes back into the family. I plan to move out when I buy a house (which I expect to be in 5 years since my credit sucks and I owe about 18k in stupid credit card mistakes) or when I get married (and move in with husband or we buy a house together). When I look back I'll appreciate the extra time with mom during my 20's.



Civic: You didn't pay rent at 20. Or 21. Or 22. Or 23. Or 24. It's time to pay up.

Dude, pay the rent. I understand your situation, but just pay it. I lived at home until I was 19, and I even paid some rent and helped out with groceries then. My brother still lives at home at 22 and pretty much pays all my mom's bills so she will have her extra money. My Mom (and I am sure your parents too) worked their asses off to provide for you for 18+ years, it's not too much to ask for some of that back.

When I stayed at my parents' house for the summer when I was 18, I paid $300 rent for threee months, but that included food, electricity, bed, water, gas, oh and laundry, not a bad deal if you ask me

But I was working then and making really good money but last summer they didn't want my money since they're bored since my mooch (sp?) sister moved out.

ditto. my parents never asked me to pay rent when i was in school, but now that i have a job, they're asking me to. seems perfectly fair to me. i understand that your younger brother isn't paying rent, but that's because he doesn't have a job (even though it's because he rejected offers). if you quit your job, your parents would probably understand and not make you pay.

Well, you've mooched off the parents long enough. Pay them rent.

As for your concerns around your brother, you're really showing your immaturity by bringing up him up. Really, what does he have to do with the situation? Would you feel better if he paid $500 in rent? Why?

As for the house, I suggest you rent first for a little while. You're going to get your a$$ kicked when you suddenly realize that you can't spend all your money on video games.

Seriously, I understand the not wanting an apartment thing, but you know, the more I think about it, the more I Like having an apartment(albeit a currently very small one).

I was paying rent $60 a week plus my own food since I turned 18 when I lived at home. Yeah it's not a whole lot, and yeah I'd eat their food sometimes, but still.

You should either MOVE OUT, or you should PAY UP.

Well, my current situation is that I am pondering moving back home for a year beforing maybe moving to another province to try to build a career because it is far to costly to live where I am. Working two and a half jobs to pay my rent doesn't really leave me much time to find work in what I really want to do.

At any rate, regrouping for a year before moving out to a smaller city eastward to continue the career, I have been debating moving back in with the parents to save money and start paying off my student loans.

I have been on my own since 17 so this is a tough step backwards yet sometimes, I believe, one needs to retrace ones steps to move forwards.

I plan to get a job back home for the year I am there and I shall offer to pay rent for living there (a small amount minus bills should allow me to save some).

I think it is fair for them to ask you for rent if you are not distitute. At any rate, it should be time to try and go it on your own. Just my two.

Is no one else concerned by this horrible turn of events. People seem to be ignoring that someone in Other has been deleting posts


The next thing you will tell me is that i can't post a roll call thread

the fun has left the forum


By the way pay the rent

I guess I also found another reason to post in the loser thread. Someone who shares a room and sleeps in a bunkbed is having sex on a regular basis while I am quadsucking my way to satisfaction

Phenobarbital

I don't even want to know what it means for a guy to quadsuck his way to satisfaction...

it's not as bad as you think

Where is that, 125th Street?

I thought mysterX disbanded the Other Male Orgy? If gcribbs is quad-sucking again I might have to jump back into the fray.

Thats what I'm saying-$1000/month before any bills. My girlfriend
doesn't pay much because she is in school and can't work more
hours a week than she does already. She takes care of some
bills, I take care of the rest. And we are still 100 miles outside of
NYC. You get stuck in one of those artsy towns and you pay
outragous amounts...and In two years we move to NYC. When I
moved out of my mom's house, my room was taken over within a
month. Even if I wanted to move back in, I wouldn't have the
option.

"You don't get anything out of it"?...You get a place to live!

Welcome to reality. Do you think the rest of the people in the
world paying rent wouldn't rather be putting the money towards
a house to own? Thats the way things are when you don't live
with mommy and daddy. I'd love to tell my landlord I am not
going to pay my rent, depite having money to do so, because I
want to save up and buy a house.

If you can't afford to buy a house for another year or two because
you have to pay rent, thats what you end up doing.

I had to pay for most of my stuff by the time I was 17 and I had to pay for my own groceries at 15/16 because my mom was a selfish pig who squandered the child support money on her clothes habit (all of which ended up brand new in a brown hefty garbage bag in a closet in the guest bedroom), the rich-ass bi***. Then, I got thrown out like a piece of garbage with no money. At the time I had a job and I was going to school full time. I managed to get an apartment and at 25, I was able to buy my first house. My parents were 'well-off' too at the time.

Hell, my father recently passed away leaving me and my sister a fortune worth exactly $56,000. My mother sued the estate for $50,000 and my aunt sued the estate for $50,000 as well on behalf of my grandmother. My mother is a friggin millionaire and my grandmother is 93 years old and the $50,000 was my father's share of his inheritance which he borrowed so he could support himself during his dying days and the money was supposed to pass on to me and my sister after he passed away (when grandma died of course). Argh... anyway...

Yeah - you're 25 and you live at home, then you're a sponge/mooch/whatever you wanna call it. Use em as long as you can tolerate it and save up. If they ask for rent money and they don't need it from you, then it's a sign they want you to move out or else they're probably planning to put that money into an account so you can have it as a down payment when you finally buy a house (that's if they love you, which they probably do <small>you bastard</small>). If it were me, I'd move the hell out and get an apartment or move in with a buddy or something and pay rent at some place where I didn't have to live with the shame of sleeping in a friggin bunk bed with my little brother. I mean honestly - how did you get a girl to even come to your parents house? Rohipnol? No offense to you, it just seems like a funny situation. Most women wouldn't date a guy who's 25 and living at home let alone sharing a bunk bed with his brother.

I'd also place less importance on the car - I mean, you already have a chick... and if she's willing to put up with the bunk bed thing, she's a keeper. You don't need the manhood extender as much as you need the dignity of being independent.

I just wanted to agree completely with this post.
You're 25 man, good lord...

Just so you know:

Fiancee = chick
Fiance = dude

Is there something you want to tell us?

I agree with Seeker... your brother's situation doesn't matter. Hell, I was paying rent at 17; it teaches you financial responsibility, and I'm very glad my Dad asked.

No, I'm going to shut up now... (if you can't say something nice, say...)

Pay the rent. I bet your getting free food/gas(House)/electricity/and water with that. $100-200 and your still coming way ahead. Good luck on the House hunting.

-Lucky

After giving it thought I decided I will pay them $100 a month.
They do a lot for me and have done a lot throughout my school years. My dad has gotten both of us out of trouble several times.

I recently sold all 246 of my dvds to pay off my credit card debt to show my parents I am serious about saving for a house next year.

My parents know the love me and my brother have for import cars. They don't see why I need another car, but I just want and will get one. But, I guess to keep them from bitchin' when I get the h/b, I'll start paying the rent $$.

For the person who said get an apartment first and was saying, "What do you mean you get nothing out of an apartment..you get a place to stay"

I would rather stay here in these conditions and pay a 7th of what it would costt in an apartment and like one other person said, "at least the $$ I give up / lose is going back into the family and not some landlord". Besides what if I move into an apartment and then lose my job. Highly unlikely but anything is possible. My credit would probably get ruined and I would be back at home again. I'd rather play it safe and make sure I make it through the 365 day probation, which means more $$$ saved for things to go into my house.

Besides if I moved out now, I could kiss my Hybrid goodbye

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zuffy: Dude, just pay the rent. Geez, when I was 18 I was paying $300 rent already. Forget that B12 or B13 or whatever engine you wanted.

It's a B18C1 and dude no (as to not get the motor)!

You have absolutely no reason to be complaining - you have it sweet, and don't seem to realize it, even given your last message.

Civic:

Why do you need a house? It'll just be you and your girlfriend, right? Ever thought about getting a condo? They're cheaper and you might be able to afford moving out of your parents house sooner and starting earning equity there.

When you grow up you'll realize that there are priorities in life. Having dignity by being self-sufficient should be higher on the list than buying a new car.

If your current car is falling apart or you're selling it to make smaller payments, thats one thing, but it doesn't sound like you're doing that.