<prompt> Human: My father and I are living together and he is asking me to pay more rent. His financial financial situation is very difficult and I would like to ask you for your opinion. His 5 other children live on their own and dont send him money.Here is my financial situation:I am 23 and net about 2000 per month. My own living expenses are about 800-1000 p.M. food, transportation, car, insurance, fun. I participate 500 in rent. I save the rest.The difficulty is my fathers financial situation. He calculated that the he pays 2000 p.M. for our flat: 1040 rent we live in a 4.5 room flat with 100sqm in a suburb of a large city in Germany 350 utilities 225 housekeeper 85 electricity 50 repairs 50 household items 200 For running machines, I think he meant the costs of the office. Not even imputed costs for replacing or household machines.First of all this calculation completely pisses me off because the last three items are absurd and the utilities also. Besides costs for our flat he pays for groceries, insurances, transportation, interest. My father is 76 and does not have a high income. He is self-employed and therefore gets almost no pension. He gets about 340 financial support from his relatives and 200 child benefits. His limited company earns the rest of his money strongly fluctuating, maybe 1500 earnings p.M..His situation has recently been made much more extreme. For years he had 10.000 debt on his checking account. Now the bank does not want to give him this loan anymore. On his account he agreed to get down to 0 until end of June 2017 which is completely unrealistic. He does not want to negotiate a payment plan because he will have to open up the finances of his company and himself to the bank which dont look very good to a banker. He also fears that if he misses a single payment, the full debt amount will become due immediately, leading to a foreclosure.He demands that I start participating with 1000 p.M. in November. I do not agree with this, because this does not solve his financial problem. I know that his way of living is completely unsustainable. When I move out he will not be able to keep his current standard of living, even if he rents out the former rooms of me and my brother. He wants to stay in this flat no matter what. At his age, he does not want to move. To me the only solution is that he makes more money with his company. Dont ask me how though.My counter offer was 750 , to which he did not agree and now the situation is very tense between us.I dont know how we can get out of this mess without me being a financial crutch. Any advice from you is much appreciated.Edit: Hi everyone, thank you for your kind and thoughtful answers! I never got so many replies on anything I posted on the internet.  <response>: I dont think his financial situation should matter much in your question. Rent should be fair for both of you. Your 23 now, your father shouldnt have to cover your utilities, food, insurance, transport etc.I think you should assess how much it would actually cost for you to live on your own, including food and all of it, then decide if his 1k request is unreasonable.Finally if 1k is not what you want to pay Id try and compromise by figuring out how to lower the household bills. Cutting the housekeeper and each of you agreeing to handle those duties should get you down to 900 for example. 