I think he was rude to just assume that. It's your house.
And I agree with dlish. If he's renting, he's renting. You can be nice and allow the I'm not paying utilities stance, but I would make it clear that it's a favour because you're friends. You need to make it clear where you stand. If he gets pissy about it, he's just doing it because he knows you're right. No-one likes being told they're wrong.
I would never have a friend as a roommate. All sorts of falling out potential. Not worth it.
Never mix business and friends. It rarely works.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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