A bit of a pickle re: lodger

Legacy_user

Hi Everyone,

Like a bad horror film we have the lodger from hell. It has come to the point whereby we feel strangers in our own home.

What makes it worse is that there is no agreement in place. We just want him to go:

A little example of whats been going on:

Debt collectors knocking at the door for him, although I lent him over £400 to pay them off (which I haven't had back yet)

Selling our stuff to make ends meet.

Moving his latest squeeze in 24/7

Drug driving his company car.

The problem is, he holds a grudge and suspect he may take it out on the house or animals. He also has quite a large collection of weaponry (machetes, crossbows etc)

I'm tempted to just give him 2 weeks and say keep the money, just stay away and let bygones be bygones.

Some of the appliances are his, but I can arrange to get them disconnected. We suspect he plumbed in the gas cooker in himself.

Any advice appreciated.

Pitlanepiglet

I suspect you will need to give more details....

Is he really a lodger? That would indicate that he moved into the house that you occupy and has a room and shares use of other facilities, is this correct? What appliances are you referring to? That doesn't fit with an ordinary lodger scenario.

The relevance is that a lodger has no security of tenure but someone who may be a tenant has and the difference turns on the facts of each case.

ceridwen

Yep - he's certainly trouble with a capital T then.

Sorry to hear that.

Don't know really how to advise - other than to say that once he's gone that if he tries to come anywhere near your house again for "wrong reasons" that you could take out an injunction against him forbidding him from coming within so many metres of the house (not sure think it might be something like 100 feet?). Dont think that takes much doing to get one and believe they are quite cheap.

Take care.

ceridwen

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

I suspect you will need to give more details....

Is he really a lodger? That would indicate that he moved into the house that you occupy and has a room and shares use of other facilities, is this correct? What appliances are you referring to? That doesn't fit with an ordinary lodger scenario.

The relevance is that a lodger has no security of tenure but someone who may be a tenant has and the difference turns on the facts of each case.

I think (not sure mind - and it needs checking....) that if someone living in your house with you shares facilities (like kitchen, bathroom, etc) that you cant reasonably be forced to share with someone you have decided not to have around.

Browntoa

possibly take pictures of said weaponry when he's not around to back up any complaints you may need to make to the police or a court to show reasons you have cause for concern

ceridwen

Re that large collection of weapons - I expect thats illegal and I would be checking the law on that in your position. I doubt he would want the police coming after him about him having all those weapons - so that could be a "bargaining chip" with him. That is - "You get out without any problem and never darken my door again or give me any trouble BECAUSE if you don't then I will tell the authorities about those weapons of yours."

EDIT: Your other "bargaining chip" you have is that presumably he doesnt wish his employer to know he drug drives one of their cars - or probably even that he actually takes drugs.

ceridwen

Browntoa wrote: »

possibly take pictures of said weaponry when he's not around to back up any complaints you may need to make to the police or a court to show reasons you have cause for concern

Very good point:T

...and any other evidence you can get as to why he is Trouble.

BTW - Review your security precautions and make sure you change the locks the second his belongings are out the door.

Sambucus_Nigra

Call the rozzers round to confiscate the weapons and change the locks. Then run for your lives!

ceridwen

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Call the rozzers round to confiscate the weapons and change the locks. Then run for your lives!

A very different sense of humour to mine here.....:cool:.

The trouble is that the O.P. might take that "suggestion" seriously.

sequence

It doesn't sound right for a lodger to have brought his own cooker ?

Are you sure he's a lodger and not a tenant ?

ceridwen

sequence wrote: »

It doesn't sound right for a lodger to have brought his own cooker ?

Are you sure he's a lodger and not a tenant ?

That may just be because OP's cooker gave up the ghost and the lodger said "No problem - I've got one - I'll put it in and we can all use it".