Experience on Renting Out Rooms As a Couple

It depends on how much you value your private sphere.

Even though I can understand your evaluation, I think you should defer to your future wife here. She clearly isn't comfortable with the loss of privacy.

OP here. Posting from a new computer, so apparently can't use the same name. I had completely forgot that I had posted this! Thanks to the spam ads for bringing it up.

Ended up purchasing a 4 bed/ 3.5 bath with a basement unit.

For the first year, rented out the basement unit and one of the rooms upstairs ($2k/month rental income). It was generally fine as we were working most of the time and found a roommate who similarly worked long hours and was gone most every weekend (we made sure to find a renter who would not be at the place 24/7). The GF was generally OK with it, but after the first year we opted to just keep the basement renter. We were also able to pay down the house very quickly, invest in other financial opportunities, and splurge a bit on vacations and the like. A Christmas vacation in Switzerland certainly made things a bit more palatable to the GF!

Fast forward to now -- we are still in the same place and got married a few weeks ago. It would certainly be difficult to have an upstairs roommate during work-from-home, and we're in a financial position where we don't need that extra income. So, all-in-all, things worked out well across the board.

If this is real OP and ur not lying I’m impressed bro

This is the story of my life! Please don't be intolerant. My relatives who live in Portugal rent 1 room in their house to someone. But they need this money to make it easier to pay for utilities. They are almost never at home, they have a cafe where they are almost all the time, including weekends, so they made the decision to rent out a room. I've noticed that many people in this country do this. As for me, I wouldn't rent out a room without needing money. But I also have a disagreement with my wife. My wife wants to spend good money on installing sliding doors in the living room. I don't think it's safe to install glass doors there. What do you think? Below you can see what these doors look like. https://doorsdirect2u.co.uk/product-category/room-dividers/

eishirukofuko wrote:

This is the story of my life! Please don't be intolerant. My relatives who live in Portugal rent 1 room in their house to someone. But they need this money to make it easier to pay for utilities. They are almost never at home, they have a cafe where they are almost all the time, including weekends, so they made the decision to rent out a room. I've noticed that many people in this country do this. As for me, I wouldn't rent out a room without needing money. But I also have a disagreement with my wife. My wife wants to spend good money on installing sliding doors in the living room. I don't think it's safe to install glass doors there. What do you think? Below you can see what these doors look like.

https://doorsdirect2u.co.uk/product-category/room-dividers/

I'm not sure if links are allowed here, but if it's not advertising, then I agree with your opinion on this issue. To the author of the post - thank you for continuing, it's impressive!