If your best friend was about to be homeless, would you let them stay with you?

@SW-User If you aren't willing to do it for at least a year with no conditions, why bother?

@Diotrephes Are you crazy? Give someone my age a free ride for a whole year?

@SW-User Yes. Consider the fact that your friend is jobless and broke and has no resources. He may or may not be sick. It takes a while to get a job, so blow off a couple of weeks or longer for that. Then it takes a while to accumulate enough money to get a rental. That takes a significant amount of money when you are starting out with none. Therefore your friend needs several months to accumulate the money although he is now working. And, of course, there are all of the incidentals that the person will need once he moves out. A year is probably on the short side.

Anyone can become homeless at anytime for any reason. If you are not willing to truly help the person it is best not to bother.

@Diotrephes I call it freeloading. People have their own lives requiring privacy. And consider the fact that having an additional person could get them evicted.

@SW-User There is nothing wrong with that. Your primary responsibility is to yourself, so always make yourself happy by doing things that please you.

When you live with someone their habits can get on your nerves. For instance, your friend may not rinse out the dishes after cooking and eating and she/he may load the dishwasher the wrong way. Or else the person might stay up too late or not take out the trash. There are all kinds of things that can be aggravating. Family members have even killed each other over a pork chop.

So, don't extend a helping hand because it will just make you an angry and bitter person and who knows where that will end?

It is always best to make all of the difficult decisions before the need arises. And since you know that extending a helping hand to a friend in need will only make you angry and bitter toward the person, don't do it even for two minutes.

@Diotrephes You possibly mistake me for the poster. And I'm capable of making my own decisions.

@SW-User Everyone makes their own decisions. On internet chat rooms when people express an opinion other people are free to reply to it and even criticize it. So, if there's a problem with people making comments about a poster's opinions maybe the poster should take up a new hobby.

I, for one, would never take in someone who needs help and kick the person out before the person has fully recovered, even if it took longer than a year.