Thank you for the answers which are kind of split between do it with strict rules and don’t do it at all.
I’m 30 male, living alone in a two bedroom apartment with addiction issues. My ex was previous roommate. I work full time but it’s remote and overnight a few days a week. I need a roommate. The 2,120 a month apartment is expensive. I make $5k a month after tax. Near LA California. My main thing is my dad has to be doing something to keep him busy every day except weekends. Below is more details. If he can’t stay busy i have to make him leave and idc what happens.
My father equals $1,000 less per month. Or I add him and one person but it’d be cramped. I can’t keep paying that. If I deny him living here he will be homeless. No car or anything but clothes and $200 cash and $200 food stamps a month. He has addiction issues so that’s a second high risk problem.
He says he isn’t able to find anywhere to live when his 90 day stay in an inpatient addiction centre ends tomorrow. He was supposed to start part time as a cashier at the gas station I work at. The day before he’s to show up, he calls and says he probably can’t do it due to anxiety. He never tried at all.
My dad is 56, currently 300lbs, idk medical issues or if he has many. Any job requires walking at least 15 minutes. I’ve told him he’s going to be out of the house from about 9am-5pm and it can’t be sitting outside a store.
He’s supposed to get disability checks in the next year which will hopefully support him independently. He’s not gojng to live here if he’s not going to work or go to a program. That’s simple and I’m also scared he will smoke inside. He did that when I was young. My mother would yell at him nearly every day about it in our rental at that. That kind of tells you the type of man he is or at least was 10 years ago. I mean he’s 56 years old at this point. I’d hate to make him be homeless but at the same time it’s his decisions that lead him here