{"id":86301,"date":"2026-03-12T06:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86301"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:47:26","slug":"getting-a-lodger-how-to-earn-extra-cash-by-letting-a-room-in-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/12\/getting-a-lodger-how-to-earn-extra-cash-by-letting-a-room-in-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a lodger: how to earn extra cash by letting a room in your home"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1LjTev.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Taking in a lodger Illustration: Jamie Wignall\/The Guardian\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technically, a lodger is different to a tenant. A lodger is someone who rents a room in someone else\u2019s home, usually sharing living spaces such as the kitchen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/getting-a-lodger-how-to-earn-extra-cash-by-letting-a-room-in-your-home\/ar-AA1LjTeH?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=8e392777288b4184d2b5f92e1fcbdb8d&amp;ei=30\">Rad 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>Technically, a lodger is different to a tenant. A lodger is someone who rents a room in someone else\u2019s home, usually sharing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Rooms-to-let.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86301","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=86301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86302,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86301\/revisions\/86302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}