help with "friend" staying in house.....

onecalledk

just to make it absolutely clear about the fleas, YES i DO use a spot on flea treatment from the vet EVERY month as the cat is long haired. So i can hand on heart say that she is flea free!!! thats probably the most insulting part of her email actually! the fact that she arrived in the house whilst i was there, made a comment that she had been bitten earlier in the day as well. So that would perhaps point to the beasties coming with her .....

I will be addressing it anyway and will be using a vet bought annihilation spray to do the whole house just to make sure ......

thank you all for your replies.

K

tbs624

onecalledk wrote: »

...let friend of mine stay in my house as a favour whilst she looked for other rented accomodation, i am between homes at the moment as i have moved in with my boyfriend in a different town...................
I only took money to cover the mortgage and that was all, no bills or anything.
........... I have stayed on occassion in the house, the most recent was last week and noticed nothing.

...........i wasnt viewing it as a rent as such, just helping out a friend who it appears is ready to stab me in the back !

I think you should just grit your teeth & pay for the spraying yourself : the problem may well be down to your cat, as other have explained.

You say that you were "just helping out a friend" but it seems to have benefited you too without too much effort on your part. Bother with a gas safety certificate? Let your insurers know? Did your Lender know?
You had your mortgage payments covered whilst you're in a different town, okay, not the other bills but then you have also availed yourself of an overnight stay or two.

Let it go and move on. Before you think about renting out to anyone else start doing some research & join up to a LL association so that you do things properly from the start.

charliee_3

we had fleas in our house from the previous people. they had cats, we had none, a spot of warm weather got all the eggs to hatch and we were infested. you can buy a can of realy effective flea spray from pets at home for about a tenner, spray it on all the carpets and round the edges and the effects should last for 12 months (which if there are no cats to add new flea eggs then longer) we did it nce and hav had no problems since. im going to do it in our new house too as i dont fancy getting bitten again. id just give her her money back and be grateful that she hasnt actually done any damage and your friendship is still relatively intact..