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lightworks
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"The rent is $3,000 for three BR/Bath. How do we divide it?"


          

I'm in the master bedroom with an attached bathroom.

Other two bedrooms share a wall, middle size bedroom has a bathroom attached too, smallest bedroom uses the hall bathroom as her own.

Obviously I should pay the most.

But before the rent was gonna be $3200 and we worked it to basically 988, 1070, and 1175 plus or minus a few cents.

We found out the rent was $200 cheaper so at first we were all "great that's $70 less each"

But I did the math and that's more than $3,000.

Help yo

  

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why not $1000 each?
Feb 10th 2015
1
Well that's not fair since I have master bath and bedroom
Feb 10th 2015
5
      Cool
Feb 10th 2015
17
           Actually it's not that much bigger to be honest.
Feb 10th 2015
18
1200, 1000, 800
Feb 10th 2015
2
My share was $1175 before the price drop. I'm not paying more lol
Feb 10th 2015
4
      1150, 975, 875
Feb 10th 2015
6
           Hmmmm. Then we aren't all feeling the price drop.
Feb 10th 2015
10
                922,1004,1074
Feb 10th 2015
11
                     fuck it i give up lol
Feb 10th 2015
12
                          It was hurting my head that's why I asked yall for help LOL
Feb 10th 2015
14
Get a square foot price for the bedrooms
Feb 10th 2015
3
918, 1000, 1082
Feb 10th 2015
7
Just subtract $66 from what y'all were each paying...
Feb 10th 2015
8
Added up it equals $3035.
Feb 10th 2015
15
Ok, subtract 77.66 from each person's set amount.
Feb 10th 2015
25
Yeah I don't get it if y'all already agreed on a split for 3000.
Feb 10th 2015
16
1050, 1000, 950
Feb 10th 2015
9
Bam. Just suggested that! Thanks.
Feb 10th 2015
13
      yep. that master bathroom shouldn't be worth an extra $200/ mo
Feb 10th 2015
44
           lol the roommate's dad is gonna recalculate it based on whstever
Feb 10th 2015
46
you dont. fuck you doing having roommates as a grown up?
Feb 10th 2015
19
Just drop the rent for each proportionally to what you agreed to before
Feb 10th 2015
20
^
Feb 10th 2015
21
So we are going to do this apparently
Feb 10th 2015
23
this is why I'm glad I live in a "normal" city.
Feb 10th 2015
22
Right?
Feb 10th 2015
24
some people like having roommates?
Feb 10th 2015
26
Eww.
Feb 10th 2015
27
      generally i hate responses like this
Feb 10th 2015
36
You can't find a solo unit for $1000 in or near DC
Feb 10th 2015
30
      smh. The rent is too damn high!
Feb 10th 2015
33
      RE: smh. The rent is too damn high!
Feb 10th 2015
34
      I agree. But for me it's perfect right now.
Feb 10th 2015
35
      wage requirements??? tha hell is that???
Feb 10th 2015
39
      i hadn't either. But it stabilizes rent a bit and guarantees some divers...
Feb 10th 2015
41
      not even a studio apt? smh...
Feb 10th 2015
50
      I mean... you can cop two bedrooms in Scottsdale for $1000/month
Feb 10th 2015
52
           Who would you date/hang out with
Feb 11th 2015
59
                I guess it's the beauty of working in tech
Feb 11th 2015
60
To be fair, DC is a GREAT launching point for transitioning to "adulthoo...
Feb 10th 2015
29
      all that makes sense..
Feb 10th 2015
43
           Yeah no way I'd have stayed for shits and giggles.
Feb 10th 2015
45
so the conflict is that
Feb 10th 2015
28
I don't think there is conflict, I think she just can't do math.
Feb 10th 2015
31
      what I want to know is how
Feb 10th 2015
32
      Applied to a CL ad for $1175 a month
Feb 10th 2015
40
      lulz
Feb 10th 2015
38
$1100, $1000, $900. You're welcome.
Feb 10th 2015
37
Sorry but anything over $1100 means NO ROOMIES for da kid!
Feb 10th 2015
42
Bedroom sizes:
Feb 10th 2015
47
Do you feel that 40 extra sq ft (over the smallest bdrm) is
Feb 10th 2015
48
you are paying for that private bathroom
Feb 10th 2015
49
Hell nah it ain't
Feb 10th 2015
57
$3,000 pays almost 4 months of mortgage payments for me.....
Feb 10th 2015
51
Am I nuts for thinking $1000 a month should be enough to live alone?
Feb 10th 2015
53
things are hell different in DC though
Feb 10th 2015
54
that aint shit in NY, LA, SF
Feb 10th 2015
56
Do people really make that much more?
Feb 11th 2015
61
      relative to other areas i think they have to
Feb 11th 2015
62
lol nm
Feb 11th 2015
58
3233 =/= 3200
Feb 10th 2015
55

luminous
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1. "why not $1000 each?"
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lightworks
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5. "Well that's not fair since I have master bath and bedroom"
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I would be heated if I paid the same as the girl in the master bedroom and I was sharing a wall with my other roomate

  

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17. "Cool"
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i've always just split it equally no matter the room size.

but if your room is that much bigger than the rest you can split it up by square footage and pay that way.

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lightworks
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18. "Actually it's not that much bigger to be honest. "
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It is a little bigger but other 2 roomates share a wall and one doesn't have a bathro attached which is why I am not even gonna bring up the equal split lol

I sure wouldn't go for it lol

  

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2. "1200, 1000, 800"
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#quickmath

  

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4. "My share was $1175 before the price drop. I'm not paying more lol"
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6. "1150, 975, 875"
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n/m

  

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10. "Hmmmm. Then we aren't all feeling the price drop."
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Having homegirl go from 988 to 975 doesn't make sense lol

  

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11. "922,1004,1074"
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>Having homegirl go from 988 to 975 doesn't make sense lol

  

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12. "fuck it i give up lol"
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n/m

should split the drop evenly I guess
-66 apiece

  

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14. "It was hurting my head that's why I asked yall for help LOL"
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3. "Get a square foot price for the bedrooms"
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And split the common areas by 3

So if the sq ft rent is say $10 per, multiply by your larger room and bathroom, they do the same for their individual bedrooms, sit their bath in two and y'all sit the general areas by 3

Add it up...voila


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7. "918, 1000, 1082"
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c'mon y'all


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8. "Just subtract $66 from what y'all were each paying..."
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That's $198. Then you can haggle over those last $2

  

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15. "Added up it equals $3035."
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Paying the rental company $35 extra a month isn't really a big deal I juat figured hey they didn't want to do it.

  

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25. "Ok, subtract 77.66 from each person's set amount. "
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16. "Yeah I don't get it if y'all already agreed on a split for 3000. "
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9. "1050, 1000, 950 "
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13. "Bam. Just suggested that! Thanks."
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44. "yep. that master bathroom shouldn't be worth an extra $200/ mo"
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that's crazy talk they doing up there.

  

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46. "lol the roommate's dad is gonna recalculate it based on whstever"
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He did to get he numbers before

I assume it's similar to what the person in this thread did to break the numbers down

Like each share is around 30%, with mine being the most

  

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19. "you dont. fuck you doing having roommates as a grown up?"
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20. "Just drop the rent for each proportionally to what you agreed to before"
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Original:


$988
$1070
$1175

Equals $3233

So (Approximates Below)

$988 = 31% of $3233
$1070 = 33% of $3233
$1175 = 36% of $3233

Just multiply those percentages times the new rent of $3000 to get everyone's NEW share.

$930
$990
$1080

There you go.





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21. "^"
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23. "So we are going to do this apparently"
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The roommate said we should recalculate using the methodology and then figure the split.

That's fair.

Again I never thought it would be totally equal since I have the master bedroom

  

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22. "this is why I'm glad I live in a "normal" city."
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$3K a month out here will rent a 3000+ sq/ft HOUSE with a pool and would pay your monthly utilities with plenty of change to spare.

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24. "Right?"
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I'm sitting here like, why do you have roommates when you can afford a grand per month for rent?

  

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26. "some people like having roommates?"
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I always shake my head when people pay 1K or more and aren't caking up in a big city.

Fuck that.

  

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27. "Eww."
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I'm such a solitary person that even reading your subject line made my skin itch. lol.

  

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36. "generally i hate responses like this"
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not everyone is making money like you

not everyone is content living where you live

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30. "You can't find a solo unit for $1000 in or near DC"
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And if you do you'll probably make too much money do to wage requirements.

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33. "smh. The rent is too damn high! "
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34. "RE: smh. The rent is too damn high! "
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35. "I agree. But for me it's perfect right now. "
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Me and my fiancé share a place in a nice area. Two bedrooms, one bath, plus a parking spot and we pay around 1100 a piece. Additionally the two months they gave us rent free.

So that's less than either of us were paying solo.

I'm getting career fast tracked, she's able to expand her work.

So those things that may take a decade elsewhere are happening in a small set of years for us.

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39. "wage requirements??? tha hell is that???"
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>And if you do you'll probably make too much money do to wage
>requirements.

This is a very foreign concept to me. There hasn't been a single place I've lived in that had such an absurd requirement.

You can't live here because you can REALLY afford it??? FOH.

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41. "i hadn't either. But it stabilizes rent a bit and guarantees some divers..."
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There were some apartments that I really liked. But if you made more than 35k you couldn't live there.
I imagine people find ways to get around this and that also these properties get government subsidies in some form.

I thought the wage ceiling was oppressively low, but that's on me, and I'm not gonna be one to complain about making "too much money".

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50. "not even a studio apt? smh..."
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52. "I mean... you can cop two bedrooms in Scottsdale for $1000/month"
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I can't wrap my head around wanting to live somewhere that damned expensive.

I can think of a few cities across the US where $1000 a month would net you a 3 bedroom apartment in a decent part of town.


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59. "Who would you date/hang out with"
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And how much is your career subject to the whims of your current company in Scottsdale would be my retort.

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60. "I guess it's the beauty of working in tech"
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there are IT jobs all across the country. Being in my profession I get hit up for jobs/contracts everywhere imaginable so working in Scottsdale is not abnormal in the least bit.

As for who would I date? Someone from the surrounding area. There's a shitload of transplants in metro Phoenix along with locals of many races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. The chances of finding someone suitable to date out there is definitely stacked in your favor.

  

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29. "To be fair, DC is a GREAT launching point for transitioning to "adulthoo..."
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I'd say in some respects unparalleled for most professionals.
For the arts, NY is probably where it's at; for tech the West Coast.
But for lawyers, contractors, politics (obviously), government, military ... etc career building (which includes but not limited to establishing a high salary floor, networking, building government rank) DC is nearly untouchable.
I probably won't stay here too long, but for this phase in life, for a lot of professionals; it's hard to top DC

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43. "all that makes sense.. "
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but if a person is spinning wheels are just floating in the wind??? nah, couldn't do it.

  

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45. "Yeah no way I'd have stayed for shits and giggles. "
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Too damn expensive and not really that "cool".
There's more affordable and better options for recreational living near by ish.
Baltimore, Richmond, parts of Delaware, Philly ... all seem much cooler for personal life than here.

That said, I met a great woman, enjoyed solid women, have made good friends and associates, and jump started my career.

Another place in life, I wouldn't spend here.

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28. "so the conflict is that"
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you feel like you should pay more because they share a wall and you have the bigger bedroom? How did you wind up getting the master bedroom?

if y'all don't split that shit evenly! Your guest cannot use the "public" bathroom have them use YOUR bathroom and so on.

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31. "I don't think there is conflict, I think she just can't do math."
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32. "what I want to know is how"
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she wound up with the big bedroom?!?!?

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40. "Applied to a CL ad for $1175 a month "
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Girl that out the ad together originally saw the apt and wanted the middle priced room

She advertised the least expensive room and it got snapped up instantly

My room I guess they tried a few diff people for and it worked when I met her and I mey the other roommate during the walk through.

  

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38. "lulz"
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37. "$1100, $1000, $900. You're welcome."
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Edit: $1102, $1003, $895 if you want to be technical.

Edit edit: this was calculated under the assumption that the original rent was exactly $3200.

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42. "Sorry but anything over $1100 means NO ROOMIES for da kid!"
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47. "Bedroom sizes: "
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Now i am wondering if I am dumb for paying $100 more than the middle bedroom (she pays $100 more roughly than the smallest

15 x 11'4

12'11 x 11

10'11 x 11



What yall think?

  

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48. "Do you feel that 40 extra sq ft (over the smallest bdrm) is "
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worth the money?

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49. "you are paying for that private bathroom"
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57. "Hell nah it ain't"
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$100 a month for a little bit more walking around room? NOPE!!

We're paying equal shares. At the most, maybe $25 more for the attached bathroom

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51. "$3,000 pays almost 4 months of mortgage payments for me....."
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53. "Am I nuts for thinking $1000 a month should be enough to live alone?"
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This is crazy to me on a few levels. That doesn't include utilities or food, right? The amenities this environment provides have to be worth the rent cost.

  

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54. "things are hell different in DC though "
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Everything is hella expensive

This place had a gym and a pool and is near a metro so even if I'm payin more than my roommates in the end it might be worth it for peace of mind's sake ya dig

  

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56. "that aint shit in NY, LA, SF "
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but...you also make more in those markets so...there is that

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61. "Do people really make that much more?"
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Maybe in SF, but I don't think so in NYC and LA. A lot of people make middle-America ass wages in these expensive cities.

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62. "relative to other areas i think they have to"
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but like you said there are tons of poor ppl in all of those cities
SF has the most homeless ppl i've ever seen in my life and parts of the mission look like north philly
and it's estimated that nearly half of NYC is living at a relative poverty level

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58. "lol nm"
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does it really matter?

wonder what bin's doing?
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55. "3233 =/= 3200"
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Thus, 3233-3(70) > 3000

  

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