[Idiom] How much is your rent?

[Julie17]

Are the following sentences acceptable?

a) How much is your rent?
b) How high is your rent?

Thanks.

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes.

 

[MikeNewYork]

They are both correct, but the implication is different.

The first is a simple request for information.
The second comes from a person who thinks that rents in general or yours in specific is too high.

 

[Julie17]

That's interesting. So a bank adviser taking a customer's details would definitely not use b)? Is "What is your rent?" more appropriate than a) or the same?

 

[bhaisahab]

In a general enquiry about financial expediture "How much is your rent?" or "How much rent do you pay?" would seem the most likely to me.

 

[Tdol]

So a bank adviser taking a customer's details would definitely not use b)?

It's not a natural question for this context.

 

[lotus888]

That's right. It would be if the bank representative was a loan officer or financial adviser.


--lotus

 

[Julie17]

That's right. It would be if the bank representative was a loan officer or financial adviser.


--lotus

Do I understand you correctly that when the customer is applying for a loan, the question might be b) "How high is your rent?"? Isn't that in opposition to what MikeNewYork said?

 

[Tarheel]

"How much do you pay?" or "What is your rent?" are also possibilities. (As far as I can tell, nobody is in disagreement with anybody.)

 

[Julie17]

"The second comes from a person who thinks that rents in general or yours in specific is too high." That's what MikeNewYork said about "How high is your rent?" :?:

 

[SoothingDave]

Do I understand you correctly that when the customer is applying for a loan, the question might be b) "How high is your rent?"? Isn't that in opposition to what MikeNewYork said?

No, the question would not be "how high is your rent?" if someone was just gathering information from you, e.g. for a loan application.

 

[Tarheel]

I agree with Mike that that would not be the usual way to say it. More likely would be something like "What is your rent?" (There are several possibilities, as you can see from this thread.)