[TriLUG] A Rent Control System

[Glen Ford]

I am a day late and a dollar short... but this seems to fit the bill
http://www.ioweyou.co.uk/
Its blurb states:
"OWEYOU is an expenses sharing calculator. It is ideal for people living 
in a shared house. To use iOWEYOU, you log all the items you buy that 
you share with your group. This may be bills, food shopping, light 
bulbs, TV license, etc., etc. "


/glen


Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Brian Bell wrote:
>> I think you're looking for this:  http://www.billmonk.com/
>>
>>
>> On 12/27/06, Randy Barlow <randy at electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
>>> Howdy all!  I've been thinking of developing a system to be used by my
>>> roommates and I to help settle small debts (things like utility bills,
>>> pizza, etc.)  If I were to develop such a system, I would surely open
>>> source it.  But first, I wanted to check to see if anything like it may
>>> already exist.  Here's the details on my idea:
>>>
>>> Three us us (students) live in the same house.  We get bills for things
>>> like gas.  We also pay our rent individually.  Suppose I get a gas bill
>>> for $90.  I could ask each of my roommates to give me $30 when I get the
>>> bill, but that becomes cumbersome when you also get many other bills and
>>> do things like ordering pizza.  What's easier to do is to adjust the
>>> amount of rent we pay next month (i.e., I pay $60 less and they each pay
>>> $30 more).  This is how my roommates and I currently do it, but we do it
>>> by writing e-mails out about what we spent money for, i.e., it's
>>> currently done by hand.
>>>
>>> I was thinking I could make a php/MySQL app that does this for us.
>>> Obviously, if I did open source it it would only have a very limited
>>> market (single folks who have roommates...) but I figured why not?
>>> Anybody know of anything that already does this or something like it so
>>> I don't reinvent the wheel?  Anyone find any interest in such a product?
>>>
>>> Randy Barlow
>>> http://www.electronsweatshop.com
>>> Dio fece il mondo in sei giorni, ed il settimo fu arrestato.
>>>
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> 
> Another more real-time solution to this problem, is wireless
> Internet-connected devices using Paypal* to instantly settle these
> short-term debts of convenience.  Friends of mine and I have been doing
> this for years.  One of us would want to pick up the check, instead of
> having the waiter/waitress split it, and we'd then instantly reimburse
> whom ever paid for it via Paypal.  You can now pay via SMS, so anyone
> with a cell phone should be able to do this presently.
> 
> Aggregating it into a single payment adjustment may be more convenient,
> so it's probably worth investigating solutions to do that, I just
> thought I'd provide our happy experiences at doing this w/o a
> complicated tracking solutions.
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner
> 
> 
> * - Before anyone mentions paypal fees, of course you should only do
> this with personal paypal accounts.  There's no need to have a premier
> account, unless you need to accept credit card payments, which your
> average single guy/gal with roommates does not need to do.


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