Paying Utilities in a Househack

[Andrew McCartin]

For those of you who househack using the rent-by-room strategy, do you include utilities in your rents, or split those monthly expenses among your tenants/roommates? 

I can see the pros (not having to pay out of pocket) and the cons (disputes among roommates) to doing this either way, but am curious to hear how you guys approach this. 

Thanks! 

[Andrew McCartin]

@Daniel Haberkost @Sam Lewis 

@Max T. @Dylan H.

Thanks for all the helpful feedback, guys. Sounds like the consensus is to bake utilities into cost of rent, but I do also like the idea of Sam's method. 

I will try running an A/B test with both methods per Daniel's advice. Will be interesting to see which gets better results.