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New lodger, is this taking the piss!
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As I away some of the time, over my partner's and also the money comes in handy, I have a lodger. My last one went after 4 years and after a few weeks I got another one this weekend, he said he just separated from his partner, and they share a dog, can he bring it this weekend, as I have a terrier, I said let's try it. He arrived on Friday, all was well and he settled in.
Sat afternoon, the lodger said, "I am meeting mates for the football in the pub for a few hours" , so I agreed to look after his dog as well, there was no sign of him all evening, I went to bed at 11pm, putting his dog in his room, he rolled in from the pub at 1am with a woman, I did not get up, most of the night, it was chatting and back and forward to the loo.
So do you you think this was taking the piss on only the second day. Should I lay some rules down?
Sat afternoon, the lodger said, "I am meeting mates for the football in the pub for a few hours" , so I agreed to look after his dog as well, there was no sign of him all evening, I went to bed at 11pm, putting his dog in his room, he rolled in from the pub at 1am with a woman, I did not get up, most of the night, it was chatting and back and forward to the loo.
So do you you think this was taking the piss on only the second day. Should I lay some rules down?
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I agree, but thought it a bit much on the 2nd night, and re the dog and making all that noise.
Yeah, it does take the micky a bit... I'm guessing if he has just separated from his other half, he's just having a bit of fun. Maybe it'll calm down as he settles. But the dog rules have to be sorted.
I think it is a bit much too.
I feel you have to set rules and regs when taking someone in your own house as a lodger.
I am not sure what the legal rules are though.
However, he does have the right to bring guests home because he lives there now, but as he is renting as a single tenant, if his guests stay to such an extent that they are using your utilities a lot, then you should increase the rent and maybe change the terms of his tenancy to reflect this.
He doesn't have the right unless he has okayed it with myscimitar.
But this should have been explained at the outset, perhaps in the form of a written agreement.
Being just an informal lodger however, your tenant has very few rights if it gets to the point where his behaviour is unreasonable.
Not many people are going to want to rent a place if they can't bring friends back, so I presume a landlord would say yes. That's what I think anyway.
1: NO DOG unless he looks after it, not you
2: NO VISITERS, your house isn't some dosser
3: if you aren't in by a certain time, you LOCK the doors!
Um.. Whilst I think its perfectly reasonable to say 'no pets', presumably we're talking about a paying lodger here?
What sort of dreadful landlord doesn't allow any visitors and doesn't give the tenant a front door key?
I know somebody who rents out 3 rooms of his house - all people can come and go as they please, and have the occasional visitor. If you want to make money by renting out a spare room you have to be relatively accommodating - it makes you a landlord after all. They are paying to live there and for it to be their home as well.
Lodgers are neither employees, nor children - they are your customers.
I'd be deeply suspicious of anywhere that charged for a room and didn't give a front door key..
There's a lot of competition out there - lots of people trying to let their spare rooms so it's a 'renters market'. Silly rules will get you no lodgers.
was this posted from blackpool in 1953?
You either set our the rules that suite you...or send him packing, failing this you will live to regret taking him in as a lodger
Sorry, but I have to ask... why do you do that? It's really off-putting.
Ha ha yes. I thought it sounds like that hotel Del Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert stayed in when they were stranded in Margate.