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Sounds like it's time to leave.....if there was any favor to be repaid, it sounds like it's been done. His house & his dog are his responsibility. You should give him notice that you'll be leaving soon, so he can have time to make arrangements.
LOL. I agree that she should return the favor, but a year long commitment is a bit much. Taking care of a pet, if she does so appropriately, is a lot of work. He would have to have someone house sit. He also can't rent unless he hires a mgt. type co be on call when tenets need him. House sitting is costly. They're clearly both making out. I wouldn't be paiting rooms. That's way too much work, imo, if done right.
Use a good brand airless sprayer to paint rooms. It's pretty easy.
Use a good brand airless sprayer to paint rooms. It's pretty easy.
I've been thinking about doing that in my own home. I suck using the brush. Did you find any issues with fumes? How do you ventilate and what about over spray?
I would never agree to move in with someone I'm not engaged to or married to and agree that I will not pay any rent. Clearly anybody would rationally expect some compensation for free rent. The truth is that then it becomes too subjective, I would just pay rent, and if he wants something fixed he should just pay for it. If he is uncomfortable with such an arrangement clearly you two can't see eye to eye, you should just move out, whatever else happens is whatever else happens. It seems unreasonable to expect to live somewhere rent free without some other compensation, but since you didn't agree on the compensation beforehand I think it is obvious such arrangement would not work out.
Come up with some agreement on just compensation or just leave, you shouldn't try to bank big favors, and neither should he. This wishy-washy arrangement would never work out IMO.
You are profiting from his house, you are living there. How much would rent cost you someplace else. If you can get by for less, then I would move. If rent someplace else costs more than the repairs, then I would do the repairs and stay. As far as the dog goes, I'd teach him to paint. I would not be concerned with breaking up with this guy. Unless you are 90 years old, there are lots of guys out there to choose from. Some of them won't have a dog for you to baby sit with, and some of them won't charge you to stay in their house, and still, some of them won't even have a house...
I believe the guy sounds like a jerk too. Not from the current arrangement but from what he did to you previously.
I don't understand the asap necessity of fixing cracks and painting if he's suppose to be gone a year. Is he planning on throwing you out again and renting it now?
In this arrangement, I wouldn't mind spending $100 a month and no more and painting at my leisure. I wouldn't fix anything that the dog was prone to destroy again and I'd keep him locked up in a room while gone. I wouldn't do any major repairs and I also wouldn't tell him how much I was making either. Sounds to me like you'll be breaking up when he comes home anyway so save up money while you can.
Should I just stay in his house and keep spending money on it? Or just leave the house and him - I know the second I move out, we'll no longer be together.
I read this and the first thing that came to mind was that you work for him.
The dog doesn't need obedience classes. It's being a DOG. A dog who is bored, lonely, and can't go to the toilet for 15 hours.
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