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"I had an apartment in Chicago," said Meghan Kennihan, 34, a running coach and personal trainer who lives in her folks' finished basement in La Grange. "It was tiny and expensive. I was miserable. I moved back. Now, I have a bedroom plus an area for my scrapbooking hobby and another for my exercise equipment. It's like having my own apartment except I have more space than I can afford to have in an apartment."
As long as their parents are fine with the arrangement, the young person is saving the money they're not paying in rent, and they're helping with their fair share of household chores, I don't see a problem with this. Multi-generational households were the norm until fairly recently.
There's someone on another forum here who lives in an old trailer in the woods outside of town, rent-free. That's one way to afford high COL areas, like the Bay Area and Seattle.
There's someone on another forum here who lives in an old trailer in the woods outside of town, rent-free. That's one way to afford high COL areas, like the Bay Area and Seattle.
Good luck finding a place to live in the woods near the Bay Area or Seattle. I did stop a few nights in an RV park north of Mill Valley. I think it was over $50/night.
I had a gorgeous sky goddess (flight attendant) living at my house for over a year and at one point I kind of hinted / suggested that maybe she might want to make a reasonable or remotely noticeable attempt at paying some rent and/or utilities and her response was:
'It's a given that even if we were not together, you would still have your house and live here anyway so I shouldn't have to pay rent.'
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But after the inevitable breakup, she moved to her parents house to live rent free and then eventually moved in with another guy, once again rent free. She could write a 'How To' book on living rent free.
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There's someone on another forum here who lives in an old trailer in the woods outside of town, rent-free. That's one way to afford high COL areas, like the Bay Area and Seattle.
Even though many got off to a slow start with college debts and a sick economy, millennials are now buying houses at a rapid rate. 35% of houses sold last year were bought by millennials and that percentage has been increasing at a rapid rate.
I wouldn't mind helping out my children for a while if they were just trying to get started. In fact, twice we had our daughter here while she saved for a house down payment. We parents get to the end of our lives and need some help from the kids, maybe some of them remember when we were there for them?
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