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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$1000 isn't going to make a difference to your septic tank if its close enough to failing that 1 extra person (who is out working all day) is going to break it.

One must always look at the marginal cost vs. gain in any situation.  Lets say you rented it out all summer to strangers. it sounds like  a bit of a cr&phole but you could get, what, $2500/month for it?  So you'd get $7500 for the summer.  Since the youngsters will be living there, you're already giving up $7500. Taking his grand means you're giving up $6500.  Is this marginal amount worth you acting totally unclassy and cheap?[/quote]

$2500 a month for a 3 month lease on a 3 bed beach house on land?

Ahh, you're dreaming. You can't even find a 3 bed beach front house for $2500 a week on the Outer Banks (where I suspect OP's house is). And you're talking about a short term lease, which come at huge premium.

Take the shitbox listed below. It's $2900 a week. So it generates $35,000 a summer. You'd be incredibly lucky to negotiate a lease on that for $8000 a month, or a 10K discount for the entire summer. You'd have to convince the owner that your offer is better than the possibility it would sit vacant for at least three weeks, which is incredibly unlikely. Vacancy rates on the Outer Banks are in the low single digits during prime season. I don't think many of the posters here realize what a gift shed boy is being offered.

https://www.hatterasrealty.com/vacation-rentals/hunter-haven-6hhh[/quote]

But your post only makes PP's point stronger. These people are supposedly giving up 35K, and they want to end a friendship and feel superior over charging $1K for a shed? Regardless of whether it is a fair price (it probably is, but who knows), it just confirms that she is petty and weird.[/quote]

No, it doesn't. OP's family doesn't rent the house. [b]If I own a $50,000 Mercedes that's sitting in my garage and give it to you for $500, that's one hell of a deal for you and doesn't make me petty.[/b]

Further, OP isn't the one ending the friendship. The rude mom of shed boy did. The onus isn't on OP to offer shed boy or his mother anything. Shed boy and his mom are entitled to exactly nothing.[/quote]

I don't know if you are being daft on purpose, but that example is not at all on point. The shed is not going to be rented separately when the main house is being occupied by family. There is no marginal value to the family who owns the house. They are foregoing tens of thousands of dollars in rent to let the kids stay there, which of course they are entitled to do. But then they see an opportunity to chisel the kid's friend out of $1000 and are huffy that the mom (and probably friend) think that's bs. And the OP is surprised by that!

A better car example than the one OP gave would be if you had an empty shed on your property that you weren't using, offered to let me store my car there for a month, and then decided (after the offer was made, apparently) to charge me $1000, and then was surprised I wasn't interested in that screaming deal because houses in the area rent for $5000 a month. Of course you are entitled to do that, but that entitlement doesn't make you any less of a gauche cheapskate.[/quote]

The boy won't be living in the shed anymore than the boys will be living in their bedrooms. Do you suppose the boys with bedrooms will be denied living in the house? That theyre quarantined to their rooms? No, they will use the kitchen and baths. Just like the shed boy will. The boy would be sleeping in the shed but living in the house. How is that hard to grasp?[/quote]

Beside the point. If you want to charge for utilities, fine (although tacky). But the point is there is no marginal cost to letting the kid sleep in the shed, so charging $1000 is cheap and tacky. Sad that you don't see that.[/quote]

Sad that you're too dumb to see that his use of the house and its amenities (oven, stove, fridge, electricty, trash service, hot water, AC, cable, etc) is identical to that of the owner's children as well as the added cost of cooling and electrifying his own personal cabin.[/quote]
Tickety-tack tacky. Do you even hear yourself?![/quote]

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