Help! How Do I Raise the Rent on an Elderly Relative?

Did you ever want to be a personal-finance advice columnist? Here’s your chance.

In Money’s “Readers to the Rescue” department, we publish questions from readers seeking help with sticky financial situations, along with advice from other readers on how to solve those problems. Here’s our latest reader question:

An elderly relative lives with me and has paid the same amount for household expenses for years, even as the costs have increased. How can I ask her to pay more?

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