<p>financial aid is paying for me to live off of campus in an apartment. it’s an hour away from my hometown. i’m engaged, and i want my fiance to move with me. he’s not a student, but can he live with me anyways?</p>
<p>someone please let me know asap, this could keep me from going.
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<p>No one cares who lives in your apartment with you. College students have roommates who are students and who are not students. Both of my kids had roommates who had already graduated and were no longer students. It’s your decision who you share an apartment with.</p>
<p>even if he isnt paying for it? is that okay?</p>
<p>Darling…is he living in the dorm or in student subsidized housing owned by the university? If not, if it’s an off campus apartment…the school does not care who pays the bill or who your roommate is.</p>
<p>Now the FREE advice. Personally, I would NOT let this freeloader move in with you. If he can’t contribute to the cost of the housing and he is NOT a student…let him figure out his finances. Don’t offer him a free place to live. That is not a good idea.</p>
<p>neither of us have jobs. and i havent asked him if he wants to move yet. and i would care if he’s living for free because i wouldnt be paying for it either, financial aid is. i just wasnt sure if he would be able to. but thank you for your Help(:</p>
<p>You can have Atilla the Hun living with you. The school will not care (well not from a financial aid aspect anyway).</p>
<p>More motherly advice - coming from the heart. 
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<p>*neither of us have jobs. *</p>
<p>Then you probably shouldn’t be engaged. Seriously. Thumper is right. You should not let a boyfriend/fiance move in with you when he doesn’t have a job to help pay for stuff. </p>
<p>How will he eat? Who will pay the utilities? Who will pay transportation costs? Who will pay for his cell phone?</p>
<p>AND… another consideration…does your aid package include student loans? If so, then the school is not really giving you money to live off campus. You are borrowing money to live off campus - which YOU will have to pay back. </p>
<p>Do not let this guy (or anyone) move in with your until they have the means to pay for all of their expenses and half the rent/utilities. You will soon regret that all of your money goes to support someone who’s sitting around watching TV and making messes.</p>
<p>To save money, you should get a paying roommate to split your rent costs. :)</p>
<p>well first we did have jobs, until this recession came around and we got laid off. secondly, i will be engaged if i want, my own parents didnt even tell me i shouldnt be engaged. my grandparents will be helping with the food, since i live with them now, and also i have some money put away when i had a job for transportation, and food. the apartment i found only wants rent money and trash disposle. and i got a grant. i dont have to pay the money back. and i dont want a room mate, who knows if there a psycho or a murderer. i asked a question, i didnt sign up to be on Dr. Phil. no one on here has a right to tell me that i shouldnt be engaged.</p>
<p>and attila the Hun? get a life.</p>
<p>dutchipoo…one thing to remember…when the time comes next year, you will be paying income taxes on the amount of money you receive for financial aid that is in excess of tuition/fees. Your rent/utilities financial aid money will be viewed as taxable income on your taxes for the year. You will receive a 1098T and that will tell allowable “costs” and what you received for aid. Any amount of aid above the allowable costs (tuition/fees) will be added as income on your taxes. Just FYI.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the engagement, dp! How long ago did you become engaged? Have you set a wedding date?</p>
<p>When you post questions on a public forum, you will get all kinds of advice that you didn’t explicitly ask for, just the nature of the medium. Just be glad this is basically 1) free advice you can take or ignore 2) anonymous.</p>
<p>Unemployment happens. However, I think the advice that has been given is sound: Keep your wits about you and keep assessing if your fiance is going to get back to work and carry his half of the financial burden in your relationship. </p>
<p>Also, swimcatsmom’s comment about Atilla the Hun was clearly a joke and not an insult to you or your fiance. It was clearly an exaggeration to make a point, which is that you can move anyone you want into your future apartment and the FA office won’t care. Whether that is a wise choice for you and your life is an entirely different matter.</p>
<p>When you post questions on a public forum, you will get all kinds of advice that you didn’t explicitly ask for, just the nature of the medium. Just be glad this is basically 1) free advice you can take or ignore 2) anonymous.</p>
<p>Very true. When young people post questions, they often reveal other issues that could prove to be a big problem, so those of us who are parents sometimes address those issues as well.</p>
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<p>And they often conceal other information that would be helpful to know. You get a kid asking for general information about financial aid, and then on page 4 of the thread they offhandedly mention that they’re international students and their father is the Pope.</p>
<p>You get a kid asking for general information about financial aid, and then on page 4 of the thread they offhandedly mention that they’re international students and their father is the Pope.</p>
<p>LOL…that is soooo true. Or, the kid will post that he wants to go to a dream ivy, but on another thread he posts that his ACT is a 23.</p>
<p>I think some of the advice you have been given is inaccurate. If you are living in an off campus apartment, you will have to sign a lease or rental agreement with the landlord. The terms of your lease will specify how many people can live in that unit. In general, a 2nd tenant will also have to be on the lease, and most landlords will want both tenants to pass a credit check. </p>
<p>This is obviously a different question than financial aid – but the point is, you can’t just have anyone move in with you without restriction.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>True…the private apt management may care to know who is living there, but the school won’t.</p>