How Much Rent to Charge Adult Children Living at Home

It may not be what you want to hear, but how much rent to charge your adult children living at home does depend on a few factors:

1. What can the adult child afford? If they're living at home, they probably can't afford market rent.

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2. Why is the adult child living at home? Are they going to school? If so, you may want to charge less rent than if they are working.

How Much Rent to Charge Adult Children Living at Home

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During Marilyn Monroe’s (Oscar® Nominee Michelle Williams) first trip to London to film “The Prince and the Showgirl,” with Sir Laurence Olivier (Oscar® Nominee Kenneth Branagh), she befriends Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), an ambitious 23 year-old production assistant on the set. As their relationship progresses Colin’s focus shifts from making his way in the film business to rescuing her from the pressures of celebrity life. When Monroe’s new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, makes a brief trip to Paris, Clark takes the opportunity to introduce her to the world outside of Hollywood fame. Based on the true story by Colin Clark, this memoir describes a magical week in which Monroe opens herself up to a stranger and finds in him a confidant and an ally.

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Anyone doubting the layered, nuanced, and heartbreaking acting abilities of Michelle Williams will find My Week with Marilyn a tremendous revelation. And Williams fans will enjoy it even more. In My Week with Marilyn Williams takes on the formidable challenge of playing Marilyn Monroe, and does so with depth and assuredness, and without resorting to caricature. Williams's Marilyn commands the screen with pain and delicacy, and doesn't let go until the final credits. My Week with Marilyn focuses on a small time frame in Monroe's life, right after her marriage to Arthur Miller. Monroe, already "the world's most famous woman," still feels the need for validation as an actress. What better way to achieve that, she believes, than committing to costarring with Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl, a film she firmly believed would finally cement her reputation as a serious actress. My Week with Marilyn is based on the short memoir of Colin Clark, a crew member on The Prince and the Showgirl, who quickly became the confidant of the wildly insecure Monroe and watched a train wreck of egos--mostly Olivier's and Monroe's--collide in a fiery near-disaster. Kenneth Branagh gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as the exasperated Olivier, resentful of the "new blood" in Hollywood that the young Monroe represents, and disdainful of her cult-like devotion to Method acting. (And of Monroe's chronic tardiness, which threatens to undermine the veddy, veddy strict British work schedule.) Eddie Redmayne plays Clark with a sweet, gentle veneer, someone who grows to care genuinely about the complex Monroe. Julia Ormond is clipped and proper as Olivier's then-wife, Vivien Leigh, and Emma Watson shows a lovely gravitas as Lucy, Monroe's acting coach. But it's Williams who gives the revelatory performance, capturing with painful intensity the insecurity that begins to seep out of Monroe like a fearful sweat. "Excuse my horrible face," she blurts out, while looking nothing less than her usual radiant self. Where does this tragic insecurity come from? My Week with Marilyn doesn't attempt to answer the unanswerable, but instead shines a light on the very real woman who became lost in the giant shadow of legend. --A.T. Hurley

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3. How long will they be living at home? Some parents will charge little to no rent for up to three months while the adult child gets back on his or her feet after a crisis like a divorce or a job loss, then start charging rent.

So, you need to talk about what's right for your family. Most important is that adult children living at home cover any additional expenses they add to the household - higher heating bills, extra grocery costs, more gas for the car, and so on. Working out a family budget is an important step that allows you to see what the adult child's impact is and how they will pay for it.

If the adult child is totally unable to pay rent, you may consider allowing them to contribute their labor instead. Adult children living at home should always be responsible for some standard chores around the house (like cleaning their room, doing their own laundry, and cooking some meals), but you could add some extra chores -- like painting the house, cleaning the gutters, or helping with renovations, for example -- that they could do to help "pay" for their stay.

And most importantly, be sure to set a timeline for when the adult children living at home will leave. No matter how much rent they are paying, things will start to get uncomfortable if there is no plan for the adult child to get out on their own.

How Much Rent to Charge Adult Children Living at Home