splitting a house - do you split by rooms, or people?

[Anonymous]

When renting a home with friends or other family members, do you split costs by bedrooms, or by number of people?

[Anonymous]

Unless there’s a big disparity in family sizes, we split by family. Even if one family needs an extra bedroom, we’re all making use of the common spaces.

[Anonymous]

I would expect for my family to pay more if we used 3 bedrooms and the people we were sharing the house with only used 1 or 2 bedrooms - IF we got a bigger house and were paying more for the extra bedroom(s) in order to accommodate my family.

If we got a deal on a bigger rental house that had more bedrooms and cost the same as similar smaller houses with fewer bedrooms, then I would expect to divide the cost of the rental more evenly between paying adults staying there.

[Anonymous]

How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

If Group 1 gets 2 bedrooms I’d do 40/20/20/20.

If I’m in a bedroom with my kid I don’t want to pay a premium for that.

Other expenses should be split per person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

How are people spread between the bedrooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

How are people spread between the bedrooms?

Most important question.

In our family, the rooms would end up one room for each family group, and all of the teens (and possibly the kid too) would share the 5th room.

[Anonymous]

Per person. All the rooms are not going to be sized accordingly. If your family is larger your going to pay more either way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

If Group 1 gets 2 bedrooms I’d do 40/20/20/20.

If I’m in a bedroom with my kid I don’t want to pay a premium for that.

Other expenses should be split per person.

A single adult should pay the same as 3 people? That doesn't seem fair. It's not a matter of paying a premium for sharing a room with your kid - it's paying for the people you bring along.

[Anonymous]

I think charging by the bedroom, so if family A used two rooms, they’d pay more than family B who’s only using one room. Anyone who gets stuck on the couch because a family insisted on multiple bedrooms so as not to share with their kids, doesn’t pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

28/26/26/20

And the 5th br is for any kids that want to crash there.

[Anonymous]

Per room. If the house has 6 bedrooms, each room is $x for the week. If you want to be cheap and put 4 people in one room, that's your issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

If Group 1 gets 2 bedrooms I’d do 40/20/20/20.

If I’m in a bedroom with my kid I don’t want to pay a premium for that.

Other expenses should be split per person.

A single adult should pay the same as 3 people? That doesn't seem fair. It's not a matter of paying a premium for sharing a room with your kid - it's paying for the people you bring along.

Why not? It’s not like they could get a house with fewer bedrooms to save money if that other group had only one or two people in the bedroom instead of three.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

For example, the rental cost $1000.

Adults- 1
Kids (under 18)- .5

Group 1- 3/ $375
Group 2- 2.5/ $312.5
Group 3- 1.5/ $187.5
Group 4 -1 / $125

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How would you split this? 5 bedroom, 10 person house- adults and older kids (no babies).

Group 1 (2 adults, 2 teens)
Group 2 (2 adults, 1 kid)
Group 3 (1 adult, 1 teen)
Group 4 (1 adult)

If Group 1 gets 2 bedrooms I’d do 40/20/20/20.

If I’m in a bedroom with my kid I don’t want to pay a premium for that.

Other expenses should be split per person.

A single adult should pay the same as 3 people? That doesn't seem fair. It's not a matter of paying a premium for sharing a room with your kid - it's paying for the people you bring along.

Why not? It’s not like they could get a house with fewer bedrooms to save money if that other group had only one or two people in the bedroom instead of three.

Kids still take up resources - bathroom time/space, utilities, common area space, etc.