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My daughter just graduated from college and has a 2-year fellowship in her field near our house. She plans to apply to graduate school after that and will be getting support to do that as part of this program. The fellowship is paid, but not much. Not enough to live on in our area, anyway.

She doesn’t love living at home, but she wants to save money for grad school which we respect. She’s still on our insurance (medical and auto), and doesn’t really need a car or drive ours too much. I am trying to figure out how much to charge her in rent.

If you have been in this kind of situation, what have you done? My dad charged me a token $25/month before I started grad school but I was only home for a few months and I wasn’t making a real salary.

We talked about sharing chores. And that she would be responsible for any special food or booze she wanted to have around. We also agreed that she will pay for medical co-pays and contact lenses and dental visit costs beyond what is covered by insurance. Is there a book I should read?

She’s very amenable to whatever we say. I don’t want to either be too harsh and weird, or too like, whatever and don’t pay us anything, lahdidah. Would love suggestions or BTDT stories.

I posted this first in adult children but realize it belongs here probably…[/quote]

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