Let's Talk About Rent, Baby, Let's Talk About You and Me...

Since the topic has been raised (well, screamed), repeatedly, by him...

Let's talk about it.

$700 a month was what he cited as a figure. And some rent was paid to you - over $3600 (not including a credit for the wrongful eviction). Just curious, did he report any of it on his taxes in 2017 or 2018? The IRS considers rent as a form of income.

But then things began happening.

A "little" medical procedure turned into me transporting him every day for three weeks for treatment. Gas out of my own pocket. Me doing 90% of the grocery shopping for both of us, and anyone else visiting, on my own dime. Being told that I wasn't to go to work if it interfered with waiting on him hand and foot, so my work schedule was reduced.

Then a trip up north before he was completely healed added even more issues. That Yeti cooler that he brags about? That was out of my pocket, unreimbursed. (Go ahead and call it a "Christmas present" - funny that prior to its purchase I had already bought him Christmas presents and wasn't really consulted about this - just told that we "needed" one so bring it home.)

Over seven weeks in his warehouse actually working on shipping product, inventory, cleaning, organizing, and multiple tasks? Unpaid.

Setup of his online store and payment of the fees involved? Unpaid. Yet he was previously paying $2500 a year to an outside company for far less customer service than he received from me. (There was no online store, no follow up on sales or missed sales/abandoned carts, any website changes requested would take well over a week before completed.)

While we are on the topic, let's talk about the issue that the online store wasn't "in his name". Every time I tried to get him to sit down and work with me to accomplish that, he always had something else "important" to do - fishing, sitting in the sun by the pool, not anything work related though.

The two ad campaigns he wanted to try at $150 each? Paid for out of my pocket, not his.

Grand total for all the work that I've done for his business, based on minimum fees and grossly underestimating my time and expenses? I should still be living there rent free, for another ten months.

So, did he claiming any of that on his taxes? Because all of the above is imputed income, as he personally and his business profited from this failure to pay.

Want to have this rent conversation? Let's talk!