What Should I Do?

willhub

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willhub

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Ok after the incident with the french scumbag I thought it'd all be over with problems with ****.

Well turns out the other guy in the other room dropped out of uni, so one day he came to take all his stuff out.

Anyway after that he came back with some friends and they had a party, made a total mess of the flat, set the fire extinguisher off, and took it with them, now this has happened in the 2 weeks the flat has being empty of me and the other resident, we assumed the flat would have no one in over this time since one is totally unoccupied and the other was the guy's who has dropped out.

Anyway, basically what has happend now is that this guy has given the key to his room and the flat to some of his friends, this has then being passed on to some other people, who apparently decided to have a 3 or 4 nights out in Manchester and sleep in the flat (they're no on the tenancy at all, allthough the guy that moved out still needs to pay it until he finds someone else for the room (unlikely))

So they came back in last night, made a right mess of the flat, I was not here, but my other flatmate and a friend had a talk with them about how it's not right, they did not really agree and they've still got the key.

Now it seems possible this key could now be circulating and a possible worry it could even get copies made from it.

If they're found in the flat again, would I be perfectly in my right to attempt to reason with them, and tell them to leave immediately and return the key, and if this fails contact the police on the non emergency number (would the police even bother)

And would it be sensible to expect that whatever the outcome, because these key has gone rogue with randomers that the locks should be changed anyhow?

Sorry for the longish post and spelling/grammar errors.

Thanks.
 
Assume you are renting? In which case inform landlord you have a duty of care to inform them of issues and this is an issue. Other than that if it's a joint agreement you are in a bad place legally.
 
It blows but the dude is paying rent for the room so it's not like they are swatters or anything. Just have a word with him and ask him to be more considerate and tell him that he has to cover any damage his mates cause.
 
Don't listen to the guy above who says it's within the guys right if he's paying rent. If he's not present then it's within your rights to call the police to get them removed.

Change the locks and inform the landlord as said above so that this problem can go away.
 
You should be on the phone to the landlord this morning and visiting B&Q for some locks. Tell us how it went.
 
swillsy said:
It blows but the dude is paying rent for the room so it's not like they are swatters or anything. Just have a word with him and ask him to be more considerate and tell him that he has to cover any damage his mates cause.
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The guy who left wouldn't be a squatter as he's paying rent but I doubt that it says in the lease that he can derogate his rights and responsibilities (or indeed effectively sub-lease to groups of people) that he has under the lease.

Phoning the landlord is indeed the first thing that you should do in such a situation and you could then reasonably expect them to change the locks - even if you do nothing else then inform them pronto.

You would be within your rights to have a word with the people who have got copies of the keys of course and hope they take heed but the first point is to make sure that the landlord is informed.
 
Have a read of the tenancy agreement as you are usually not in your rights to get key copies made (for this very incident happening), probably the quickest reasoning to get the locks changed and him pressed on the issue.
 
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