isitfair
Oct 6, 2008, 08:05 PM
My boyfriend and I recently made the decision to live together. I own land with a seasonal cottage on it. We decided rather than buying elsewhere, or building we would put our efforts and money into making the seasonal cottage a year round home for us. ( I had no plans of ever living there full time) He gave up the lease on his apartment and we both moved into the cottage in the summer and spent the last 3 months renovating the place.
I paid for everything that needed to be done (material and labour that we could not do ourselves) I also paid for insurance and electricity bills. I have a mortgage on the place that I am paying. I did not ask him to pay for a thing.
We both spent our summer doing the renovations. Being more skilled in this area, he completed the majority of the work and put in many long hours.
Now our relationship has turned sour and he wants to move out. (He doesn't want to end things, but he wants his space-so he says) He has suggested that I pay him for all of the work that he did (at a price of what I would have paid if I would have had things done professionally). I have now moved out, and he is still living there. He says he needs the money to make a down payment on a house so that he can move out.
Is he making a fair request?
I paid for everything that needed to be done (material and labour that we could not do ourselves) I also paid for insurance and electricity bills. I have a mortgage on the place that I am paying. I did not ask him to pay for a thing.
We both spent our summer doing the renovations. Being more skilled in this area, he completed the majority of the work and put in many long hours.
Now our relationship has turned sour and he wants to move out. (He doesn't want to end things, but he wants his space-so he says) He has suggested that I pay him for all of the work that he did (at a price of what I would have paid if I would have had things done professionally). I have now moved out, and he is still living there. He says he needs the money to make a down payment on a house so that he can move out.
Is he making a fair request?