Charging rent for guests...reasonable?

Times are tough, snow's falling deep, the students still have to pay for their education and you have to pay money to stay over at your girlfriends place.

Out come the loonies. :p
 
Irritating yes, but this is taking the biscuit. I wouldn't pay her a penny - and obviously get your g/f to look to move out. I'm sure you can tie a knot in it for the time it takes her to move out. Will be worth it getting away from that stuuuupid landlord.
 
[TW]Fox;18025727 said:
Wow, a thread about renting and we STILL manage to get the 'omg this country is going to the dogs' style comments.

Because I bet nobody else in the world has irritating landlords!
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lol yes,but thats how i feel at this moment in time;)
 
Burnsy2023 said:
What does the tenancy agreement say? I wouldn't pay it unless it was very much in my interest to do so.
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The tenancy agreement probably states that the room is for single occupancy so if they were sticking by the tenancy agreement he wouldn't be stopping over so much anyway.

@OP Tbh.. if you're regularly staying there like 2 nights every week then its probably a pain for the other housemates - if you were staying there 7 nights a week then the room would be rented for more and you'd be paying a share of all the bills, currently you're staying for 2 nights a week and paying nothing.

That's 100 days a year - basically you're in his house for 3 months total rent free - I'm not surprised he's asking you to contribute a bit - £5 a time seems a bit anal but you should prob give a lump sum towards bills etc..
 
Too right, £5 is a fantastic rate. Assuming that for that money you don't have to do any cleaning or hoovering, have unlimited hot/cold water and maybe tea/coffee thrown into the deal.

If that's the case I'd move in permanently and let out your current residence.
 
The demand of £5 per night may sound a bit silly but the underlying issue of you staying over so frequently is the cause of it and could be a legitimate issue with your landlord. The whole issue of her trying to charge your girlfriend retrospectively on a rate she decides seems out of order however, and I'd imagine she'd have a similarly difficult time trying to enforce it on you unless she made some clause in the contract dealing with this specific issue.
 
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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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Yeah she pays rent for the room and shared use of the other facilities.

Say there are 3 other flatmates - they all pay rent for their rooms and shared use of the other facilities.

But a 5th person comes into the equation, doesn't pay any rent and stays there a couple of nights a week or total of 3 months over the course of a year - rent free! Not exactly fair on the other flatmates - its not just the bills but rather a 5th person is also taking up space in the lounge, kitchen etc...

If he was there 7 nights a week then the room could well be £10-20 per week more expensive and he'd be paying a share of all bills. £5 a time isn't too unreasonable if its including bills and a contribution towards rent.

Its the landlords house and she chose to rent it out to x number of people if shes got +1 semi permanent guest who's freeloading then I'm not surprised she's asking for a contribution.
 
Legally the landlord defines not only the room a tenant receives but also how many people are to reside in it. You would not be able to justify having someone else staying with you semi-permanently in a court if you used the 'well I rented the room' defence.
 
In my opinion that's pretty tight of the landlord, but... then you could think about it another way.

Think about this scenario:

You own a house and live in it, but you're a bit strapped for cash and like the house. You let a few people live with you in the spare bedrooms and pay rent.
Then, the three people you live with and that pay the rent, all bring their partners over 3 times a week. You then live with 6 people.

Where do you draw the line?

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Although, obviously that's not the case, it's difficult,.. but if someone is bringing one person over,.. and staying in the same room, it doens't cost the landlord... so long as you don't turn up and make a lot of noise and irritate him/her. I mean, i'd have issues if it was regular and every time the person was blarring out music... but, if you keep yourself to yourself, are tidy.. and generally don't use all the hot water / use too much electricity / block the loo < lol, I can't see why it should be a problem!
 
I'd be irritated if I was renting room out to someone and half the time there was 2 people there. I wouldn't ask for £5 extra per visit, I just wouldn't want it.

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My landlord was like this all because my girlfriend would stay around on weekends, first of all he said he would increase my rent every month from £280 a month to £320 a month because of it. I told him that if he were to do that i'd be forced to move as i couldnt afford to pay anymore than what i was paying, then he started opening my mail probably trying to cop a look at my finances.
Anyway i had an arguement with him saying he was invading my private life and he never bothered me again.

I've moved since, best thing i ever did.
 
RandomNoob said:
My landlord was like this all because my girlfriend would stay around on weekends, first of all he said he would increase my rent every month from £280 a month to £320 a month because of it. I told him that if he were to do that i'd be forced to move as i couldnt afford to pay anymore than what i was paying, then he started opening my mail probably trying to cop a look at my finances.
Anyway i had an arguement with him saying he was invading my private life and he never bothered me again.

I've moved since, best thing i ever did.
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Sounds like it, he crossed all boundaries of reason after he threatened to arbitrarily change your rent and went through your post...
 
I honestly don't think I'm a pain to the other housemates, I don't even arrive till 10pm on one of the nights I visit, and the other night I'm usually helping to cook a big group meal, so that's about 6 waking hours a week I'm around, and I don't make a mess (don't even have any of my belongings there!). The annoying thing is it makes absolutely no difference to the landlord whether I stay round or not, even if I didn't I still have the right to come see my gf without paying ludicrous fees....
 
Hamzter said:
I honestly don't think I'm a pain to the other housemates, I don't even arrive till 10pm on one of the nights I visit, and the other night I'm usually helping to cook a big group meal, so that's about 6 waking hours a week I'm around, and I don't make a mess (don't even have any of my belongings there!). The annoying thing is it makes absolutely no difference to the landlord whether I stay round or not, even if I didn't I still have the right to come see my gf without paying ludicrous fees....
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Maybe the landlord wants to nail her too.
 
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