lauraj
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone,
I've been renting a room at the back of an hair dressers since September. When I first started the salon owner said she would ideally like £25 per day or would be happy with a percentage split up to that much. I asked what percentage she wanted me to pay but she said we would do it on trust and it was up to me.
I've been giving her about 20 - 25% on all my treatments or £25 each day I was in. No one else came for the room so she gave me a key and said I could use it when I wanted. I therefore have been coming in different days and things and never really stay for a full day and just come in when the salon has booked clients in for me or when I have got clients booked in. This has been working fine and the salon owner has made a lot more from me than the initial £25 per day as I was only going to have one day.
Anyway, recently the owner has been suffering with stress so her husband had given the other girl who works in the salon a payrise and put money issues down to her. She has the been to see me and said she wants £20 per day regardless of how long I am in for and £5 per evening that I work.
Friday I took £19 and was only in for a couple of hours and she said the new rates won't apply until this week but now I don't know what to do. I can pay £20 a day because my clients end up splitting over days dependent on when the salon books them in so some days I won't be able to afford it. I've asked if we can do a set percentage and do it that way and if someone want to pay for the room by the day then I wont do those days and if they get someone full time then I'll just leave. She has said she will speak to the owners husband and see what he says.
The other problem is that I tan and do nails for the owner and I already do it at a discount or she will say she wants her nails doing and not to bother with the rent but if I'm going to be paying full each time I'm in then I'll have to set some staff prices or I'll be loosing out.
Also anyone else coming in will be paying the same amount of rent as me when I'm the one who's paid out putting a new blind up, a clock, picture, a tanning tent and a beauty couch. Why should I do it all up for someone else to come in and use my stuff paying the same as me.
Sorry about the long post. What should I do?
I've been renting a room at the back of an hair dressers since September. When I first started the salon owner said she would ideally like £25 per day or would be happy with a percentage split up to that much. I asked what percentage she wanted me to pay but she said we would do it on trust and it was up to me.
I've been giving her about 20 - 25% on all my treatments or £25 each day I was in. No one else came for the room so she gave me a key and said I could use it when I wanted. I therefore have been coming in different days and things and never really stay for a full day and just come in when the salon has booked clients in for me or when I have got clients booked in. This has been working fine and the salon owner has made a lot more from me than the initial £25 per day as I was only going to have one day.
Anyway, recently the owner has been suffering with stress so her husband had given the other girl who works in the salon a payrise and put money issues down to her. She has the been to see me and said she wants £20 per day regardless of how long I am in for and £5 per evening that I work.
Friday I took £19 and was only in for a couple of hours and she said the new rates won't apply until this week but now I don't know what to do. I can pay £20 a day because my clients end up splitting over days dependent on when the salon books them in so some days I won't be able to afford it. I've asked if we can do a set percentage and do it that way and if someone want to pay for the room by the day then I wont do those days and if they get someone full time then I'll just leave. She has said she will speak to the owners husband and see what he says.
The other problem is that I tan and do nails for the owner and I already do it at a discount or she will say she wants her nails doing and not to bother with the rent but if I'm going to be paying full each time I'm in then I'll have to set some staff prices or I'll be loosing out.
Also anyone else coming in will be paying the same amount of rent as me when I'm the one who's paid out putting a new blind up, a clock, picture, a tanning tent and a beauty couch. Why should I do it all up for someone else to come in and use my stuff paying the same as me.
Sorry about the long post. What should I do?