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DLHS Hour 2 | Should Grown Children Pay Rent at Parent’s Home · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the DL Hughley Show, your 2026 edition.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: Your 29-year-old son and his 27-year-old girlfriend comes to you
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  Speaker 3: and your husband and asks y'all, could they come and
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  Speaker 3: stay at the house with y'all? They pay $ 3, 700 a
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  Speaker 3: month in rent. And they've been doing this for the
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  Speaker 3: last three years, but now they need a little break
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  Speaker 3: and they need to downsize in their payment. So they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be looking for something different so they want
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  Speaker 3: to renew their lease. So you and your husband talked
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  Speaker 3: about it and y'all came back and said... that's fine
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  Speaker 3: how long are y'all planning to stay your son and
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  Speaker 3: his girlfriend responds and it should be no more than
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  Speaker 3: a year so y'all said okay cool for the first
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  Speaker 3: month y'all don't have to pay anything because y'all might
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  Speaker 3: be out of here within the first month but after
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  Speaker 3: that you have to pay six hundred dollars a month
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  Speaker 3: you have to contribute six hundred dollars a month towards
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  Speaker 3: the household bills so the girlfriend says what's the purpose
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  Speaker 3: of coming home if you have to pay your parents
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  Speaker 3: rent you respond by saying you can go live with
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  Speaker 3: your mother She says, my mother doesn't have a house.
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  Speaker 3: And you said, exactly. But you got to pay for
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  Speaker 3: where you lay. And y'all are grown. Y'all are not
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  Speaker 3: children anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So a man moves back in with not only himself,
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  Speaker 1: but his wife. Y'all are going to look dumb as
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  Speaker 1: hell being married, sleeping on little Batman sheets, but okay.
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  Speaker 2: Bet we get some good.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep, though. Should they pay rent or is that just
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  Speaker 1: part of parenting?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Janet Sanders?
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  Speaker 2: I think they should pay something.
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  Speaker 5: They may not have to pay total rent, but I think,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you're there now, you're an adult and you
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  Speaker 5: brought a companion. You know, I think it's only fair
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  Speaker 5: that you pay a little something, you know, you got
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  Speaker 5: five on it, something. Yeah, a little bit because guess what?
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  Speaker 5: Now more water will be used. So the water bill
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  Speaker 5: is going to go up.
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  Speaker 2: More electricity.
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  Speaker 5: Electricity bill is going to go up. Somebody is going
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  Speaker 5: to be eating up a lot of food in the house, right?
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  Speaker 5: Because you tend to just go in the refrigerator and
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  Speaker 5: just eat. You don't think about who bought it or
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  Speaker 5: whose it is. So, yeah, you should kick in something.
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  Speaker 4: You're not a kid no more.
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  Speaker 1: Get out.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? Do you think that they should
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  Speaker 1: pay rent?
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  Speaker 4: Juniors, do you think they should?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. I mean, you got to contribute to the household.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, especially if you're two grown people and you
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  Speaker 2: got a job and you're all back in the house,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you're going to contribute. Your baby girl did
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  Speaker 2: not pay rent. She was good and grown when she
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  Speaker 2: moved out. Yeah, she did before she left. And she
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  Speaker 2: did it of her own volition, which was a beautiful thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you took it, but you didn't ask her to. No, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we saved it. And then when she was ready to move,
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  Speaker 2: she got it back, and that was her down payment.
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  Speaker 6: Then she didn't pay rent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she got it back.
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  Speaker 1: It's robbing Peter to pay Paul is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But in this scenario, she never left. You're talking about
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  Speaker 2: somebody who came back. She came back after college. No,
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  Speaker 2: she never left. She lived at home when she went
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  Speaker 2: to college.
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  Speaker 5: Did she have a friend living there too?
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  Speaker 2: No, she didn't do that. She ain't got a friend now.
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  Speaker 2: What she need a friend for? Daddy pay for everything.
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  Speaker 7: I know, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Don't drop by. When she got her paper, she contributed.
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  Speaker 2: I respected her for that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you gave her her money back, so you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
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  Speaker 1: It was just money she didn't have to borrow from
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  Speaker 1: you is what happened.
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  Speaker 2: The bank of daddy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, everybody likes the bank of daddy.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody does. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Daddy don't.
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  Speaker 6: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the audio.
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  Speaker 3: Your 29-year-old son and his 27-year-old girlfriend comes to you
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  Speaker 3: and your husband and asks y'all, could they come and
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  Speaker 3: stay at the house with y'all? They paid $ 3, 700 a
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  Speaker 3: month in rent and they've been doing this for the
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  Speaker 3: last three years, but now they need a little break
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  Speaker 3: and they needed a downsize in their payment. So they're
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  Speaker 3: going to be looking for something different. So they didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to renew their lease. So you and your husband
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  Speaker 3: talked about it and y'all came back and said, that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: How long are y'all planning to stay? Your son and
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  Speaker 3: his girlfriend responds, it should be no more than a year.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all said, okay, cool. For the first month, y'all
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  Speaker 3: don't have to pay anything because y'all might be out
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  Speaker 3: of here within the first month. But after that, y'all
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  Speaker 3: have to pay $ 600 a month. You have to contribute
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  Speaker 3: $ 600 a month towards the household bills. So the girlfriend says,
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  Speaker 3: what's the purpose of coming home if you have to
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  Speaker 3: pay your parents rent? You respond by saying, you can
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  Speaker 3: go live with your mother. She says, My mother doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have a house. And you said exactly. But you got
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  Speaker 3: to pay for where you lay. And y'all are grown.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all are not children anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think she had a point? Should they pay
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  Speaker 1: rent or is that just part of parenting and going
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  Speaker 1: right to the phone?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I just feel like as an adult and being
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  Speaker 8: a couple adult moving into someone else's home, you have
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  Speaker 8: to be prepared to help contribute to the household. You
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  Speaker 8: got to be like you. You freeloading.
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  Speaker 9: If it was my kids, they would definitely be paying.
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  Speaker 9: Because parenting, like Bill said, we already did that part.
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  Speaker 10: They are adults now.
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  Speaker 9: It's their time to pay.
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  Speaker 4: Be adults.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to have to go all the way back
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  Speaker 6: on this one.
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  Speaker 11: I recall that Adam was given a house, a job,
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  Speaker 11: before he got Eve, right?
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  Speaker 9: So if it was good for Adam.
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  Speaker 11: It should probably be good for my child too, my
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  Speaker 11: son especially. Now, had he worked and gotten a house
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  Speaker 11: and had a job, he might have made a better
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  Speaker 11: selection than a woman who could appreciate those things and
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  Speaker 11: therefore would understand that there is no free ticket in
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  Speaker 11: this life.
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  Speaker 10: Now, you want to come home and live up on
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  Speaker 10: me and my man?
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  Speaker 4: I did the right things.
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  Speaker 10: He did the right things.
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  Speaker 12: The answer simply is no.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 6: Man ain't going to pay rent. You got to pay
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  Speaker 6: where you lay. Because bottom line is, not only is
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  Speaker 6: my light bill going up, my water bill going up,
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  Speaker 6: my gas bill going up, because of two extra individuals,
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  Speaker 6: everything is going up. My food, whatever. Because they're going
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  Speaker 6: to be using these amenities. So, yeah, you got to
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  Speaker 6: pay where you lay. If my 17-year-old grandson, who has
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  Speaker 6: a job... pays me for the room that he's staying in,
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  Speaker 6: what makes you think a grown, whole-ass man and woman
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  Speaker 6: going to have to do? Yeah, they're going to pay.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely going to pay. Like the guy said, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: the lady said, maybe the first month, I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: cut you some slack. But after that, you have to
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  Speaker 6: contribute money contribute to this household utilities. And $ 600 a
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  Speaker 6: month for two people is not a bad thing at all.
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  Speaker 6: And if she's so salty about having to move home,
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  Speaker 6: tell her to call her mama up and get a house. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they don't have to pay, period.
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  Speaker 13: I have a 26-year-old daughter who moved back home for college,
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  Speaker 13: so that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: But if she's to come back home with a husband,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely not.
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  Speaker 13: I would not let them two grown adults live in
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  Speaker 13: my house rent-free, and y'all a couple.
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  Speaker 6: No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 14: I say absolutely they should have to pay rent. I
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  Speaker 14: have two adult daughters that have come back home, and
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  Speaker 14: both of them had to pay rent. and contribute to
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  Speaker 14: the household cleaning.
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  Speaker 6: So here's the audio.
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  Speaker 3: Your 29-year-old son and his 27-year-old girlfriend comes to you
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  Speaker 3: and your husband and asks y'all, could they come and
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  Speaker 3: stay at the house with y'all? They pay $ 3, 700 a
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: month in rent, and they've been doing this for the
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: last three years, but now they need a little break,
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: and they need to downsize in their payment. So they're
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: going to be looking for something different, so they want
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: to renew their lease. So you and your husband talked
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  Speaker 3: about it, and y'all came back and said, That's fine.
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  Speaker 3: How long are y'all planning to stay? Your son and
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  Speaker 3: his girlfriend responds, it should be no more than a year.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all said, OK, cool. For the first month, y'all
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  Speaker 3: don't have to pay anything because y'all might be out
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  Speaker 3: of here within the first month. But after that, you
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  Speaker 3: have to pay six hundred dollars a month. You have
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  Speaker 3: to contribute six hundred dollars a month towards the household bills.
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  Speaker 3: So the girlfriend says, what's the purpose of coming home
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  Speaker 3: if you have to pay your parents rent? You respond
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  Speaker 3: by saying, you can go live with your mother. She says,
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  Speaker 3: my mother doesn't have a house. And you said, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: But you got to pay for where you lay. And
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  Speaker 3: y'all are grown. Y'all are not children anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that they should pay rent or is
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  Speaker 1: that just part of parenting going right to their phones?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, let me tell you something. First of all, I'm
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  Speaker 4: calling from St. Martinsville, Louisiana. And I'm telling you, indeed,
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  Speaker 4: they would have to pay or get their hands on out.
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  Speaker 4: For real. They got to pay. If I got to pay,
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  Speaker 4: they have to pay. And that's all it is. Period.
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  Speaker 4: I sure appreciate my voice being up there with you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Y'all stay strong. Love y'all.
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  Speaker 7: And it's funny because I literally just had this conversation
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  Speaker 7: with my 21 year old last night. I think we should.
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  Speaker 7: And I wish that I started this earlier. when they
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  Speaker 7: were fresh out and working. For her, we came up
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  Speaker 7: with a plan. You know, it's hard out here to
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  Speaker 7: live on your own. It is. It's hard. So instead
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  Speaker 7: of you moving right out on your own, yes, pay rent.
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  Speaker 7: Pay $ 800 a month. $ 400 to the rent, $ 400 to
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  Speaker 7: your savings. And in a year to two years, take
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  Speaker 7: that money. Go buy a piece of land. Go put
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  Speaker 7: a house or buy your own house so that you
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  Speaker 7: then have something for yourself. That is what I think
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  Speaker 7: that we should do for our children. They have to
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  Speaker 7: learn responsibility. We're not going to be here forever to
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  Speaker 7: provide for them, and they have to learn that. If
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  Speaker 7: you just throw them out there when you're no longer
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  Speaker 7: able to do it, how are they going to strive
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  Speaker 7: and survive?
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  Speaker 12: They need to have just a clear plan. Understanding the
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  Speaker 12: parents are asking for $ 600 and they were paying $ 3, 700.
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  Speaker 12: They need to let them know that this is an
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  Speaker 12: exercise and you get them back on your feet. This
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  Speaker 12: is not an exercise where I'm fixing your life. So
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  Speaker 12: if you only have to pay $ 600, that gives you
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  Speaker 12: all the money that you were going to pay to
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  Speaker 12: get your life together. getting on your feet, give them
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  Speaker 12: 60 days. Give them two seasons. If they move in
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  Speaker 12: in the winter, after the spring, they need to be
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  Speaker 12: gone in the summer. If they move in in the summer,
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  Speaker 12: they need to be gone after two seasons. Don't come
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  Speaker 12: in the winter and then the snow melts and then
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  Speaker 12: you come back and snow is falling again. No, I'm
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  Speaker 12: fixing your life now. So that is one of those
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  Speaker 12: things where if they understand, They can take it or
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  Speaker 12: leave it. You're here for six months. You can contribute.
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  Speaker 12: If you have money coming in that they work, it
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  Speaker 12: would be considerate of them to want to contribute. They
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  Speaker 12: shouldn't want to live off it and, you know, act
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  Speaker 12: like they're entitled. So the parents need to let them know,
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  Speaker 12: I'm trying to help you out. And contribute where you can,
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  Speaker 12: even if it's not $ 600. Contribute. But in 60 days
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  Speaker 12: or in two seasons, you need to be on your
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  Speaker 12: feet because you're going to have to exit.
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  Speaker 9: Look, everybody's situation is different. Parents, grandparents, whoever it is,
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  Speaker 9: let these kids, children, sister, brother, whoever it is, live
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  Speaker 9: with you a couple of months and raise that line,
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  Speaker 9: that boundary. Look, after this amount of time, you got
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  Speaker 9: to pay some bills in here.
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  Speaker 10: Electric costs mortgage now.
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  Speaker 9: Food costs mortgage payments or car payments. You got to
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  Speaker 9: pay something. You can't live here free, but I'm going.
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  Speaker 4: To help you out, but you're going to pay something.
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  Speaker 10: You're paying $ 3, 700 a month rent. and you want to
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  Speaker 10: move in with mommy and daddy, and.
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  Speaker 9: $ 600 is a problem, go.
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  Speaker 4: To the Motel 6 and get you some bed bugs.
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  Speaker 4: Because if you can't help where you're going.
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  Speaker 10: To stay, you need to just go anywhere and stay.
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  Speaker 10: Just sleep at the laundromat.
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  Speaker 6: Anything will do.
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  Speaker 10: And parents were good because $ 600 is a blessing. $ 1, 500
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  Speaker 10: would not be bad room and board.
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