This week's dilemma is from Robert.
 
He's currently renting a place, but owns a two storey property that he wants to move into. It makes financial sense for him to move in upstairs, because it will mean he won't have to pay tax on the rent he earns from having someone else live there.
 
BUT he's concerned the tenants downstairs might feel uncomfortable if their landlord is living above them.

He's worried it might be seen as intrusive. He knows the tenants, not well, but they have met.

Robert says they don't know each other well enough to know whether they get on or not. There are separate entrances to each unit, but Robert knows they would bump into each other in the carpark or on the street. Because the tenants are paying off his mortgage, he doesn't want them to feel uncomfortable, at the same time he does want to move in.
 
What should Robert do?

DISCUSSION POINTS:

• Will Robert moving in affect the landlord/tenant relationship? Maybe you’ve been in a similar situation either as the landlord, or the tenant…did it work?

• Would it be an invasion of the tenant’s privacy…or is it irrelevant whether the landlord happens to live upstairs?