Dodgy Lodger

cabbage

what travel expenses? She is a lodger right? or are you saying she is a tenant. If she is a tenant then she has different rights to being a lodger and you will need to follow different procedures to evict her.

BitterAndTwisted

Don't worry Cabbage, this has all been discussed in the OP's previous thread.

Frosti, please ensure you get the locks changed. Actually, you just need to change the barrel not the whole thing. These can be bought from somewhere like B&Q for a fiver if the locks aren't that unusual and should only take about five minutes and a screwdriver in the right hands to do it.

Frosti

Right they've gone, for now. All the high-value items have been removed; just clothes, shoes and cat left in her room by the look of it. The rugs are missing and the carpet has suffered (old cat, somewhat incontinent).

B&T - so glad to hear from you! - I bought a new barrel, but it doesn't fit. Tbh, I think the lock could do with up-grading to the one I bought (5 lever as opposed to the original 3 lever). But that needs chisels etc. Plus I have no idea if she took copies of the other door keys - patio door lock could be a problem to replace.
I am going to have to change them all, aren't I?

She said she'd be back tonight 'after work'. I'm dreading it. No B&Q near me but a very good independent hardware shop - am off to see if they'll let me take a selection of lock innards and return the ones that don't fit.
Should I try and fit new locks today or wait until she's taken the rest of her stuff?

RAS

No

You need to send her a text asking her to return all the keys, for a start.

Frosti

RAS wrote: »

No

You need to send her a text asking her to return all the keys, for a start.

Ha! Don't have her mobile number, or a forwarding address.
But I assume she will be back for her extensive collection of shoes and her cat.

C_Mababejive

You should have asked..I'm sure a posse of local MSE'rs would have popped round for tea to back you up and even the odds up a bit.

Yorkie1

If you intend to try to pursue her for money afterwards, do your best now to try to find any identifying things about her. Do you have her car registration number? Details of where she works? Ask if she will give you a forwarding address (you never know ... !). Identity of her friend etc - the friend may even let slip where she is going to. Photo of her.

These will all assist any tracing of her if you decide to go down that route.