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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here.   We said no.  Thought about it for a month, and decided we would probably like to rent out the room.   DH is not comfortable with two additional people in the house.  Anyway our AP is upset.   She has time to figure out a plan for herself though — I didn’t want to string her along. [/quote]

She's upset that you aren't providing her free housing? Is she entitled in other ways, too?[/quote]

Exactly.   We suspected some entitlement issues along the way, but this still surprised me (at one point she asked whether, when we exchanged our 1 family car at the end of the lease, we could keep the old car so that she could use it.   We said the point of a lease is that we trade in every four years, we have one car, and me and DH take the bus to work so she can drive the kids to and from school.   In addition we pay her gas and let her drive about 50 miles in the area each day (we have a car tracker).  We gave her an unlimited monthly metro card but she scoffed at it and prefers to drive the car to and from her friends in Virginia and Tyson’s, from inside DC where we live).  [/quote]

Wow you are a nice person to let her drive around your new, leased car! My AP gets an older beat up car to drive, I would never allow her to drive our expensive car. She has already bumped into 2 cars and done minor damage, plus hit a pole with someone else's car  :roll: [/quote]

Yeah she’s been with us for a while and we’re comfortable with her driving.   But if it’s sleet or snow or storm I usually tell her no driving except to and from school, or my DH will do stop off.   I know she’d prefer to have a clunker all to herself but we’re not paying insurance on two cars etc.  [/quote]

Yikes, OP. She wants a free place to live and a free car, and is actually upset you said no? I foresee nothing but problems with her going forward. [/quote]

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