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If/when housemates or lovers break up and both are on the lease...
I want the remaining parties to be able to afford to stay without the one who left.
Or at least manage until they find a replacement.
What does this have to do with them sleeping in the same bedroom or separate bedrooms?
OP, the person to ask is your landlord. There is no way for any of us to know whether or not your landlord is going to raise the rent for an additional person.
In my rentals, I would not raise the rent for one more added to a 1 person apartment, but I want to do a complete screening and background check on any tenant who moves in. That means they must fill out an application, pay their application fee, and wait while I complete the screening process.
Nobody (adult) lives in my units without signing the rental agreement. I don't want to have my first tenant move out and leave me with someone in my unit who has not signed the rental agreement.
BTW, I do not have a lease, it's month to month. She would not have any problems qualifying, she has good income way more than enough to afford the apartment by herself without me.
BTW, I do not have a lease, it's month to month. She would not have any problems qualifying, she has good income way more than enough to afford the apartment by herself without me.
Oh well, if it's just month-to-month, and you don't mind moving if the rent is raised, just tell your LL and see what happens. Easy peasy.
As a LL... my rule is that all adults must be on the lease (at least as occupant), if "sharing" then each
must be able to afford 75% of the bills (not 50%) and that there must be no fewer than ONE bedroom for EACH.
No morality... I don't care who sleeps with who or what is done with the 2nd BR.
But it must be there if the two adults aren't married.
Sounds like morality.
What if it the two married adults were homosexuals?
Sounds like morality.
What if it the two married adults were homosexuals?
What? If they're legally married there's no issue.
It's when they aren't legally bound (or as in the case of housemates)
and/or don't have any real ties to one another that you open yourself up to problems.
Avoid them. It isn't such a complex idea. Really.
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