My teanent refuse to sign the leaving notice

not_loaded

Yes, you have every right to ask her to leave, as she has not signed a contract with you.

With this very informal arrangement, ie: no contract, it is inexcusable that she insults you by not paying her share of bills, and not behaving as agreed concerning the notice period.

From what you say, she is extremely unlikely to pay all her dues by March 7th, so I would give her another letter saying that as she is running up more bills, and that you feel her actions indicate she is not going to pay, you are asking her to leave with all her possessions by, say 5pm Saturday 14th February. Also, in the letter, suggest she gets legal advice.

If she owes a reasonable amount, tell her you will proceed against her in the County Court to retrieve all debts. It is very easy, and the CC staff are really helpful.

If she hasn’t got the sense to leave in an organised manner, then fit (or get fitted) new locks on Monday 16th February while she’s out.

She is a !!!!!!!!!!, and her time of freeloading is up! Let her come home to find all her stuff on the front lawn and then maybe she will realise you just don’t crap all over people who help you out informally.

not_loaded

For some strange reason, the word free loader in my post has been censored whereas freeloading is not. :rolleyes:

For clarification, I am not an offensive person and that silly censoring makes me look bad.

MX5huggy

not_loaded wrote: »

For some strange reason, the word free loader in my post has been censored whereas freeloading is not. :rolleyes:

For clarification, I am not an offensive person and that silly censoring makes me look bad.

You can edit the original post from !!!!!!!!!! to free loader. The edit button is where the thanks button is on posts by other people

tom9980

Sounds like a lodger to me.

http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/lodgers_rent-a-room.htm

She has very few rights and you can if needs be lock her out if it comes to it. Keep trying to reason with her though and point out she has fewer rights than she thinks.

Oh and most modern doors you can easily change the barrel lock yourself with a screw driver and a new £20 barrel, it may be wise to do this considering her attitude.

50plusabit

lynzpower wrote: »

You have no rights to ask her to leave as she has not signed a contract with you.

You should feel yourself lucky that she has not changed the locks and sqautted the place.

For future reference you might wish to think about offering rooms with electric & gas included, so people cant wriggle out of paying them.

You have EVERY right to ask her to leave, she is renting a room in your house, therefore she is a lodger, NOT a tenant. She has very few rights as such.
I see that you have given her over a months notice, she does not have to sign it to make it applicable. You need to inform here that if she has not moved out of the property by 7th March you will be taking further action.
If she has not gone on that date, get a locksmith in to change the locks, bag her belongings up and store them, safely. Do not let her in to the property when she returns, just had her the belongings. You are perfectly within your rights to do this.
I would forget about the rent/bills she owes, your main concern is getting her out.
Good Luck.

JimmyDeemo

Reading through original post i came to the conclusion as the above poster.

No AST means she is not a tenant and doesn't have the rights of one. Like one post above says she is just as likely to change the locks and take squatters rights.

I'd treat it like this, say you had a brother that you let sleep on your sofa for a bit while he finds a place. He take liberties and generally starts doing things that you don't think is apropriate. So you kick him out right?

lynzpower

my mistake, i didnt notice that she is living in the same house

If thats the case why are you sending her a letter- do you actually live there - do you live there infrequently?

Cant you just ask her to leave?

She is a lodger if you are all living there, therefore you just smply tell her when you want her gone, you can simply change the locks and throw her stuff out on thge road.

Catblue

Am I the only one who is a bit confused about this?

viggario, do you actually own the house the problem person is living in?

Or are you renting the house from someone else (letting agency/landlord) and have sublet one of the rooms? If so then does the letting agency/landlord know about the subletting?

PasturesNew

I am not sure she is a lodger, the OP says if they "sent a letter she wouldn't be there to receive it". But if she were in their house there'd be no need to send her a letter.

Viggario - are you in the UK?

I wonder if this is an HMO. I wonder if this is in the UK at all. This "leaving letter" is not anything that would appear to be legal in the UK (it'd be a Section 21 Notice or similar).

I suspect the OP is foreign.

zebulon

this does sounds like a SUB-LET to me as well...

so as Catblue says - does the agency knows about this ? are you actually allowed to sublet ??