En-suite vs larger room-What's a fair split?

Brussels Sprout

Myself and 2 other people are currently looking at a house to let and we're just wondering what the fairest method of splitting the rent is. So the story is there are 3 bedrooms. 2 of the bedrooms have en-suites. Whoever is in the third bedroom would use the general bathroom in the hallway. All three bathrooms have showers, basins and toilets. The general bathroom shower is inside of a bathtub.

The area of the rooms (not including the en-suites) are:

Bedroom 1: 12.7 sq m
Bedroom 2: 14.5 sq m (no en-suite)
Bedroom 3: 11 sq m

The rent is 1200 pm for the house

I dont know

I've shared different houses with lots of people, from 6 others down to just one other at the moment and we've always just split the rent equally and left room selection to a draw. No one has ever suggested different rent amounts depending on their room size.
Currently living with one other, I have an en-suite, he has a slightly bigger room and the main bathroom outside his door all to himself. We both pay the same rent.

P. Breathnach

On that limited information, I would not venture an opinion.

If you all seem to think that there should be some differential, why not auction the rooms between yourselves?

D3PO

3 people , 3 bathrooms the larger room being the non en suite one. I cant see any reason for the rent not to be split evenly on the proviso that the main bathroom cannot be used by the other housemates or their guests.

But if you guys think there should be a discrepancy I think the idea made by P Breathnach is a great one.

silja

I would also go for an even split.

djimi

Id be inclined to agree that it sounds like an even split is pretty much in order. The only issue might be that the main bathroom is obviously going to be used by guests etc and is not going to be private, so perhaps a slight consession could be made for that. Up to yourselves really.

Del2005

djimi wrote: »

Id be inclined to agree that it sounds like an even split is pretty much in order. The only issue might be that the main bathroom is obviously going to be used by guests etc and is not going to be private, so perhaps a slight consession could be made for that. Up to yourselves really.

Or is someone is having guests they have to tidy the main bathroom before or after they leave, providing the person who "owns" it keeps it reasonably clean.

Victor

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Bedroom 1: 12.7 sq m
Bedroom 2: 14.5 sq m (no en-suite)
Bedroom 3: 11 sq m

Do these areas include the area of the en-suite?

Is there a separate toilet for use by visitors?

Area shouldn't necessarily be the sole determinant. Someone might 3want a room away from street noise or some such criteria.

gaius c

I dont know wrote: »

I've shared different houses with lots of people, from 6 others down to just one other at the moment and we've always just split the rent equally and left room selection to a draw. No one has ever suggested different rent amounts depending on their room size.
Currently living with one other, I have an en-suite, he has a slightly bigger room and the main bathroom outside his door all to himself. We both pay the same rent.

There will always be somebody who will have a preference for a box room in order to save cash and when one person moves out, there's often some "rebalancing" of rent required to entice a new person into the house. Last house I was sharing (some years ago admittedly), we split it something like this:
570 each for 2 double rooms with en-suites
430 for plain double
230 for box (and it was a proper box room)

If we tried splitting it 450 each and having a draw, we'd never have got somebody for the box room.

Mrs OBumble

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

The area of the rooms (not including the en-suites) are:

Bedroom 1: 12.7 sq m
Bedroom 2: 14.5 sq m (no en-suite)
Bedroom 3: 11 sq m

Boy-oboy ... 12.7 sqm .. don't forget that's not quite 13 sqm ..

If that's the level of detail you're going to before you move in - then I hate to think what the cleaning roster is going to look like!

Seriiously, unless one room is vastly inferior (and I mean like 1/2 the size or blasted by street noise, not just a measly problem like having to take three steps down the hallway to use the loo), then an even split is the only way to go.