Hi Chapos throwaway for obvious reasons.
I’ve managed to buy an apartment, two bedrooms. I live in it, but I rent the other room out. Is it unethical for me to hide that I’m the owner?
I don’t really lie-lie, like if I’m asked straight up I’ll answer, but I’ll avoid it if possible.
It’s mostly because it creates an odd power dynamic and I’d rather have a flatmate than a tenant if that makes sense.
Reason I bought is I don’t want to deal with landlords, obviously.
Do I get the wall?
Kinda surprised by the responses here. I don’t really care how many houses you have, the bottom line is that you’re extorting money from another person in exchange for their access to a basic necessity. That sucks and there’s no way to make it not suck. Get a real job.
Seriously, the responses are wild.
Next there’s going to be a poster who just happened to get a job as a cop trying to get sympathy for hiding that he’s currently undercover while hanging out with friends cause he doesn’t want to be treated like a pig. And the commenters will be like - oh it’s okay some cops are chill
Wild
or if the profit is directly covering basic needs that his job isn’t enough to cover.
If only his victim were given the same consideration.
Look, I don’t give a shit about theft on principle. Steal from corporations if you need to, or if it would make life easier, or just for fun. I don’t care about that. But stealing from your fellow worker is unacceptable, especially one that is indisputably worse off than yourself. I bet OP’s tenant would love to be in such a position that they could purchase a home and have to worry about things like whether leeching from the working class earns you the wall (it does)
Again if OP is just covering the expenses incurred by the tenant/roommate then whatever, but if there’s profit involved then I’ve got nothing in common with him
You could do that, but that isn’t rent. I wouldn’t criticize OP for charging someone a rough estimate of the cost of their use of utilities or whatever, but how likely is it that that’s what is happening?
Semantics. What would you use as short hand for “sharing the cost of living and you get your own room” if not “rent out a room”? If this was posted on id jump to the worst possible conclusion too, but maybe ask OP before doing that here.
