Quick summary: I own my house. It's a 3 br, 2ba home, and I only use one bedroom and bathroom for myself. Recently a friend of mine proposed moving in. I've thought about it, and decided to offer them the other 2 rooms and bathroom to them for $500/month + half utilities.
I told another friend of mine (someone not directly involved) about this in passing, and they began to personally attack me for being a sham of a communist, and being a capitalist, and a landlord. They claim that what I'm asking for is steep. I understand essentially the place where their criticism is coming from, rent is a system of accumulation whereby I would be gaining wealth, and my friend would be receiving merely the permit to exist in my house. So on some level I understand and agree with the fact that this arrangement is essentially at odds with my beliefs.
Does this make me a sham? Brutal honesty please.
There is a difference between deciding you have more space than you need and deciding to split the space and financial burden with someone else, and buying housing with the sole purpose of extracting as much value out of it as possible.
Very true. Having said that, in this situation, if I were not to ask for rent, I would probably prefer to continue living alone. Should I just call off the preposition all together?
Seems wasteful to leave a good living space unoccupied for the sake of ideological purity
It seems wasteful to me, too. Exactly why I'm pondering renting at all.