{"id":85593,"date":"2026-02-26T10:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85593"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:21:54","slug":"my-lodger-pays-two-thirds-of-my-mortgage-it-lets-me-work-three-days-less-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/26\/my-lodger-pays-two-thirds-of-my-mortgage-it-lets-me-work-three-days-less-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"My lodger pays two-thirds of my mortgage \u2013 it lets me work three days less a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X6fpg.img?w=534&amp;h=712&amp;m=6&amp;x=398&amp;y=628&amp;s=312&amp;d=312\" alt=\"Andy says he can work much less hours by having a lodger\" width=\"397\" height=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When civil servant Andy Enrique, 38, bought his three-bedroom, semi-detached home in Raleigh, Essex, in January 2023, he considered copying something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/my-lodger-pays-two-thirds-of-my-mortgage-it-lets-me-work-three-days-less-a-month\/ar-AA1X6hKW?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a00819814b4c51a974dbe6931a158b&amp;ei=174\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>When civil servant Andy Enrique, 38, bought his three-bedroom, semi-detached home in Raleigh, Essex, in January 2023, he considered copying something Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lodger-landlord.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85594,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85593\/revisions\/85594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}