renting rooms

maysa

I have been renting a room in my house to a young lady, who has been sneaking her boyfriend in to stay at nights with her. This has been going on for 7 months. The boyfriend stays at least 3 or 4 time per week.
I would like to know can i request her to pay more rent or shall i ask her to leave.
I am new to this renting rooms and I am not sure what my rights are. Can anyone help me ,please
Many thanks
Maysa

tealady

She is a lodger so has few rights.
Tell her if he stays then you will charge her more to cover the extra electricity/water/gas he uses.
If she doesn't like it point her in the direction of the nearest property rental agency.
It is YOUR home and only people you allow in should come in.

maysa

Thank you for replying so quickly. This is a funny situation because she brings him in late at night so he does not use gas and as far as i know he does not shower in the mornings, he leave early in the morning. All seems very strange to me. So how can i justify saying he has to pay for gas and electric etc.

She is quite a fiery person and i know she will challenge me about it. I was wondering do you think I would be in my right to hold on to her deposit money?
Many thanks for you time
Maysa x

Leory

what is the issue you have if the boyfriend doesnt use water electric?

noises?

McKneff

do you think I would be in my right to hold on to her deposit money?

No.

If he isnt using any utilities or costing you any money, I cant see the problem.

I would have a problem in the sneaky way she is doing it.
I would think that she thinks Im stupid enough not to notice.

That would be an insult to me and I would find another lodger.

Jowo_2

If she is breaching house rules your options are

1. Refine them and say she's welcome to have an occasional overnight guests at the weekend on Fri/Sat night, for example.

2. Remind her of the rules and ask her not to bring her boyfriend back.

3. Serve notice on her.

If you are too frightened to address this breach of your preferred house rules, perhaps you aren't cut out to have lodgers or perhaps you need to find someone less fiery.

Greatgimp

Jowo wrote: »

...find someone less fiery.

...or less randy!

Errata

What rules did you lay down when you agreed to let a room to her?
No visitors after midnight? Or what?

JimmyTheWig

No, this is no reason to withhold the deposit. Unless, maybe, it was agreed from the start that if she brought guests back then she would pay extra.

I think you need to decide whether you are ok with her bringing her boyfriend back or not. And whether extra rent would make it ok.
You then need to decide at what point (e.g. if she agrees not to bring him back but carries on doing so) you want her out.
Then you need to tell her.

If you don't want a confrontation you could "pretend" that you hadn't noticed but say something like "I guess you might want to bring so-and-so back here sometimes, now you seem to be spending more time together. I'd be happy with that, 3 or 4 times a week, but would obviously have to put the rent up."

LMCD

whats the main issues for you on this? its not a different fella everynight and she has paid for the room...its not costing any extra expense, if she was staying at his three/four nights a week would you charge her less rent???

ed89

I would be quite happy to leave at 7:30am, go to work for 9 hours, go play football or go to the gym after, then go to the pub or something and come back at 10:30/11 and do the same every day, rent free! And spend a night or two a week at my parents house. I'd be loaded.

I would be very annoyed if someone did this to me though!