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Anyone ever rent a room out in your home
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Had a few lodgers, never again!
One of them was always moaning he was cold and one month the electricity bill was nearly £200. Found an electric heater in his room that he must have had on all the time plus mould over all of the walls.
Another one trashed the carpet and another one did a runner who I had to take to small claims court.
Out of the 5 we had over a couple of years, 1 of them was alright.
One of them was always moaning he was cold and one month the electricity bill was nearly £200. Found an electric heater in his room that he must have had on all the time plus mould over all of the walls.
Another one trashed the carpet and another one did a runner who I had to take to small claims court.
Out of the 5 we had over a couple of years, 1 of them was alright.
Only if you rent it out without being a resident landlord. No issues when you still live in the home. Most require a consent to mortgage to be signed by the lodger and don't charge a fee. One picky lender I had once insisted the lodger also get independent legal advice and the signature witnessed by a solicitor, which cost me £30, but never had it again (that was NatWest - Was with Halifax after that who just sent the form to be signed and that was it).
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I think no visitors / sleepovers is very harsh. It has to be a two way thing - It will be their home too. I never had an issue with this unless it started becoming every night. Weekends I don't see the issue.
If you start wanting to curb someones social liberties then you probably shouldn't be taking on a lodger.
That agreement I sent you over is pretty much the "rules" you need. I amended the section on Utilities to include the Wifi Rules for no illegal use of the internet and fair data use (although that was years ago when I didn't have unlimited so probably not needed now). I think it covers off smoking and pets in there. Personally as a non-smoker I never took on Smokers. The smell gets into everything no matter what - end of. I personally couldn't live with it.
The term of it is pretty irrelevant anyway, since it can be terminated VERY quickly by either party. Lodgers do not have rights of tenants, so you can set up a 1 month, 6 month or 12 month agreement and it doesn't make a blind bit of difference.
If you start wanting to curb someones social liberties then you probably shouldn't be taking on a lodger.
That agreement I sent you over is pretty much the "rules" you need. I amended the section on Utilities to include the Wifi Rules for no illegal use of the internet and fair data use (although that was years ago when I didn't have unlimited so probably not needed now). I think it covers off smoking and pets in there. Personally as a non-smoker I never took on Smokers. The smell gets into everything no matter what - end of. I personally couldn't live with it.
The term of it is pretty irrelevant anyway, since it can be terminated VERY quickly by either party. Lodgers do not have rights of tenants, so you can set up a 1 month, 6 month or 12 month agreement and it doesn't make a blind bit of difference.
On this note i wonder what everyone's thoughts on Wifi use. I don't think i can trust anyone using my WiFi like that so i was thinking of just telling them WiFi is not included. And i'm also thinking of putting locks on my Livingroom, office and my bedroom as it's just out of bounds.
For those that have rented out their rooms to lodgers in the past or would consider doing so in the future, would you have a ban on pets?
I've applied for Kings and St. Barts/Queen Mary Uni's in London and to save costs rather than going in some grubby student accommodation was considering renting a private room. But a ban on pets would be an issue for me.
I have a small reptile collection that I could not abandon.
I've applied for Kings and St. Barts/Queen Mary Uni's in London and to save costs rather than going in some grubby student accommodation was considering renting a private room. But a ban on pets would be an issue for me.
I have a small reptile collection that I could not abandon.
Yes I'd be very wary of sharing an internet connection. As the bill payer you would be responsible any issues arising from it?
There's probably some technical solution out there that'll identify individual users however.
set up your router for public and private networks, let your guest use the public one, you run everything on the private network including you NAS etc.
also 'reserve' the ip for their devices once they have logged in, anything bad going on it will be very easy for cops to separate out the usage.
That's often the case, yes. What's grim about that?
In the photos on Rightmove it looks grim.
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I must admit I've been thinking of this myself. Where I am I could probably get about 350 - 450 a month for my second room and there's a lot of space, but I don't think I would want to. If I did it'd probably be to a friend or family connection and I probably wouldn't charge rent more ask them to cover bills or something like that.
It's just weird having someone you don't know in your house. I mean you know when you just randomly wake up in the night and just want a pee, when its your own place you can just rock up to the loo in your pants, but I'd feel odd doing that with a randomer in the house. I know that sounds a bit odd lolz.
It's just weird having someone you don't know in your house. I mean you know when you just randomly wake up in the night and just want a pee, when its your own place you can just rock up to the loo in your pants, but I'd feel odd doing that with a randomer in the house. I know that sounds a bit odd lolz.
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I'd also avoid having someone live with me unless I needed the money.
The extra cash is not worth the loss of privacy and space.
The extra cash is not worth the loss of privacy and space.
