Charging rent for guests...reasonable?

Combat squirrel said:
SHE rents the ROOM though, legally that 10x12 foot area or whatever it is, is hers to do what she pleases within reasonable grounds. The ****** landlord has no rights to demand that he monitors what she does in there, or who else is there, its upto her, she pays a lot of money no doubt as i said.
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A lodger doesn't have the same rights as the usual tenant.
 
Hamzter said:
Speaking to the girlfriend, it turns out that the landlord is demanding back payment for the past 3 months, to the tune of £150!! Totally unreasonable imo, I'm gonna make a counter offer of £20 to cover any water and electricity I might have used. If she rejects that I'm basically gonna have to tell her to screw herself...

I'm not sure if this whole thing is a dig at me or not, because there's other people that often stay round and she's saying she'll charge them too. I think this whole ordeal will just serve to alienate people and lose a tenant, as my girlfriend is now talking about moving out. Things were pretty tense anyway, due to the landlord being pretty unreasonable about other things (e.g. charging for general wear and tear which isn't the tenants responsability). Goes to show it's probably not a good idea to live with your landlord.
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id do the same but id want the £20 split between everyone who lives there if its goigg towards the bills it should help towards everyones not just the landlords

or throw £20 towards a utility bill
 
That is unbelievably tight.

I'm a landlord and I don't give a rats arse if the students have guests stay over. All I care about is the rooms being left in a good condition.
 
Luke said:
This is purely their way of saying they don't want you staying over.
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Indeed.

-edit, I change my mind, seeing retrospective demands, I'd suggest she wants more money for Christmas shopping.
On the quiet find somewhere else to live, then move out, give your one months notice, and disappear, ensure that the deposit is returned, or is substituted for the final months rent.

Until the situation is resolved, don't stay over, check the contract, if it states no staying over, then you must stop staying over until she finds somewhere new.
 
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I'd ensure you give notice to quit prior to Christmas if you can find somewhere else, and start there in the new year, it'll be opposite of what she is expecting, a cold harsh new year with no tenant and no income rather than a bumper bonus extra christmas spending money.
 
JBuk said:
would you think differently if you were?

effectively having and extra tenant for a few days each week but not paying anything
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I don't think so. I'm sure this happens all the time so I don't think I should charge rent for it. Renting to students is a cut throat business where my house is so I keep my rent at a competitive rate and try to keep my students happy. That way they can put in a word for the next lot that want to move in (unless they stay again for the next year). I don't want to charge money for this and that which would erode the good name that I try to have with my property.
 
Ok, I've made her a (very generous imo) counter offer of £2/day to cover bills, but refused to pay the £150. As a goodwill gesture tho, I've offered to back pay the £2 for the past 5 months, which comes to about £80. If she refuses that, I think she'll be looking for a new tenant to put up with her in the new year...
 
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Is this a joke of the day thread.

Tell the lanlord to go do one,i cant believe the greed in some people,this country is getting beyond a joke to live in now.:mad:
 
Hamzter said:
Ok, I've made her a (very generous imo) counter offer of £2/day to cover bills, but refused to pay the £150. As a goodwill gesture tho, I've offered to back pay the £2 for the past 5 months, which comes to about £80. If she refuses that, I think she'll be looking for a new tenant to put up with her in the new year...
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You're a wuss! Should have told her to stick it, I think it's very unreasonable to ask for you to pay unless she could prove that the bills had gone up significantly with you being there.
 
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