Left Houseshare Early - Please Help!

Blacksheep1979

roses wrote: »

I don't believe you have to pay her advertising costs because she would have to pay these anyway if you left the tenancy at the end of the fixed term.

Best check with shelter.

You do have to pay, the landlord wouldn't be incurring these costs now if the OP wasn't in breech of contract. Tbh it's a lot less than having to pay the rent in two places for 6 months...

Fire_Fox

Drea wrote: »

It tends to be how shared flats work, trust me, it p*sses me off too. I'd much rather actually meet who I'll be living with. But aparantly the landlords/ladies can only show me around during the day or straight from work when most of the tenants are also at work or on their way home.

Is this a Scottish thing? Can't you return at another time to meet your new 'friends' without the landlady? I have lived in several shared houses, never without meeting the other tenants. Are you actually taking about shared houses/ flats, or bedsits with communal living space like university halls or nurses homes?

Drea

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Is this a Scottish thing? Can't you return at another time to meet your new 'friends' without the landlady? I have lived in several shared houses, never without meeting the other tenants. Are you actually taking about shared houses/ flats, or bedsits with communal living space like university halls or nurses homes?

I'm talking about shared flats. With a communual kitchen/livingroom (although this one had no livingroom) and bathroom/s.

I'm not sure but I was trying this time around to meet the people I'd be living with beforehand, it just didn't work out that way. Have seriously been put off flatshares now, shame I have at least another 2 years of it :rolleyes:

Fire_Fox

Drea wrote: »

I'm talking about shared flats. With a communual kitchen/livingroom (although this one had no livingroom) and bathroom/s.

I'm not sure but I was trying this time around to meet the people I'd be living with beforehand, it just didn't work out that way. Have seriously been put off flatshares now, shame I have at least another 2 years of it :rolleyes:

Sounds more like a bedsit arrangement to me as you don't have a living room? In England with bedsits (be they in flats, houses or large blocks) you tend not to have met your neighbours, whereas with a shared house / flat you spend more time in the communal areas, only going to your room to sleep and so would tend to meet your prospective housemates first. A shared house/ flat all residents would normally be on one tenancy agreement so you are responsible for the rent if one doesn't pay, not ideal if they are people you have never met!!