How to split rent in new flat (couple + singleton)?

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Three of us are due to move into a new flat in Islington, London in a couple of weeks. There's me, my girlfriend and my friend.

The flat has two just about equal size double bedrooms (my friend's will be ever so slightly smaller). My girlfriend and I will obviously be sharing the other room. All three of us will share all other facilities (shared bathroom, garden, lounge, kitchen).

Rent is £325 per week (£1408 per month).

Does anyone have experience with this sort of situation? I'm trying to work out what is a fair split of rent payment do you think?

At the moment I'm thinking - per month - £450/£450/£508 (Me/Girlfriend/Friend).

Experiences and thoughts appreciated.
 
Rotty said:
I would say that is quite reasonable
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Same. Sounds fair to me. I'd expect the second chap to pay a little more considering you two will be sharing a single bedroom. But also taking into account that the rest of the flat should be shared equally in usage, and that his bedroom is slightly smaller :)
 
Make sure that whatever you agree is put in writing, and ALL of you sign your own copies of it.

Outline the split of other bills, and other expenses accordingly as well.

I didn't - and I'm now struggling with sorting out something similar where one person has been arguing what we'd agreed.
 
To be honest I was expecting you to be saying 'we think he should pay half as thats 1 room each' or something equally stupid but no, what you've suggested is pretty fair. Wouldnt complain with that although that does seem a mighty rent to begin with (edit: nvm read the first line).
 
I've lived in house shares before with my partner and rent has always been split equally between all tenants.
 
I think the bills should be split in three ways exactly, but I think that the rent should be a little different because you and your girlfriend are sharing a room. So something like 825/600 or 850/575 would be a fairer split.
 
I would want everyone to pay equal shares, it's not his problem that you and your girl have chosen to share a room
 
Ahleckz said:
I would want to pay an equal share, not subsidise a couple.
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You're not subsiding them, if anything it's the other way round. You are paying for a 2 bedroom property with income from three people, therefore paying ~1/3 rather than 1/2 of the rent. If you had a three bedroom property everyone would be paying more.
 
Why does being a couple entitle them to pay less of the rent? If there was a spare room would the couple sleep in seperate rooms?

I think they should all pay an equal share.
 
If you do square footage per person, they have less room per person in their rooms. If it was a 3 bed house it would be different - but it's not.
 
daz said:
So something like 825/600 or 850/575 would be a fairer split.
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I personally don't agree with this, the couple are giong to use the flat just as much, if not more, than the tenant on their own, so why should the single person have to pay more? The fact that the couple are only using 1 bedroom is besides the point really, they are still going to use the rest of the flat.
 
Equal share all the way, it's not just about room sizes.

Over the course of the rent, he'll just end up resenting the fact he pays more than you do.
 
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