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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid is living there.  There are expenses to the house.  Yes, he should pay rent.  How is this a question?  Any decent parent would offer the other parent some money to cover expenses.  If the other bedrooms are full or OP is using them then what they are offering is ok.[/quote]

The kid didn't answer a "renter wanted" ad; he was invited to stay by his friend.  Do your kids invite friends to places and then tell them they have to pay for the experience?  Hopefully not.

We have a beach house, as do many of our friends, and our kids' friends often stay for weeks at a time during the summer.  Not a one of us would ever consider charging them rent, because that's not how decent people treat their children's friends.  And yes, they all offer to contribute money, which we decline, or they offer to cook dinner frequently or help with maintenance, which we accept.  There is no reason to think that the friend and his family wouldn't have done something similar, but that's very different from being told, after he accepted the invitation, that they'll need to pay.

I'm particularly puzzled by the bit where OP says her in-laws want the guest to pay this money as a way to offset any damage to the property.  What if OP's kid or the nephews or their friends end up causing damage and the kid is blameless?  Hopefully this lease for the shed rental is going to cover that scenario.   [/quote]

Once OP said two of the BILs are lawyers, it all made sense.   This is giving me flashbacks to when I was looking for a living situation right out of college and one of the people looking for roommate had a lease where she could kick out the person with 30 days notice, you couldn’t have guests after a certain time and you couldn’t make noise after 10 or 11pm.  Her mom was a lawyer and had written up this lease.  That one of those things where clearly everything was being written up in her favor while I would be paying market rate rent with no rights in the apartment. Yup, hard pass.  There was another where the brother owned the guest house that for rent and she would be the roommate.  Beautiful properly but I felt like if anything went wrong, even if it wasn’t me, I would be on the hook.  My preference is either clearly a guest or equal tenants.[/quote]

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