Charging rent for guests...reasonable?

Hamzter said:
As I said in an earlier post, it's not really possible at the moment (girlfriend doesn't have a car, would take her 2 hours each way on public transport to get to work). I also can't move out of my house at the moment because of the house market, it would never sell (it took the previous owner 3 years to sell it!).



Somehow I doubt that would go down well, I'd expect the landlord would insist on paying the same as the other housemates. She actually said she would charge 'at least' £5 a stay, suggesting she still doesn't think I'd be paying enough...
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Surely her living with you and getting a car would be cheaper than her and you paying for individual rent/mortgage.
 
Morba said:
Surely her living with you and getting a car would be cheaper than her and you paying for individual rent/mortgage.
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She can't drive yet, taking lessons atm, neither of us have much spare cash at the end of the month so it'll take a little while to save up for a car too.
 
Hamzter said:
I'm thinking that she's perhaps just too possessive over her house... snip
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Well in fairness it sounds like you are both being quite reasonable about it then. It works both ways, when you rent out property, even if you live there, you can't expect to dictate how your tenants live.

Sounds like it'd be better for all if your GF found somewhere else to live as I can't imagine she'll be comfortable there any more.

Good luck with it all.
 
Mr Jack said:
Lodgers have no rights, near enough.

The rental agreement is largely irrelevant, the Landlord would be perfectly within her rights to simply ban the OP from coming over.
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Wow that sucks then, this woman does sound a bit over protective of her house though, that or she's got other issues which she's projecting onto you.
 
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