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Landlord has installed CCTV INSIDE our house and will not return my deposit

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  • skellysgirl
    skellysgirl Posts: 154 Forumite
    Don't actually have to damage the camera to stop him filming you, just cover it with a flannel or something every time you go in a room and take it off when you leave.

    A big thanks to all the comp posters for their effort
  • skellysgirl
    skellysgirl Posts: 154 Forumite
    Also what if you happened to be vulnerable would he be allowed to record you then?
    Ie get drunk and naked?

    Could you erm put on a show with your GF and then claim he is making innapropiate movies of his tenants

    I know my suggestions are not quite the right idea, but I am trying to find a way to make his installing a cameras backfire

    A big thanks to all the comp posters for their effort
  • Put a plastic bag over it.

    Have you looked at Data protection Act? Not sure if it applies here but if so you may be able to request recordings of the cctv.

    That will get on his nerves pretty fast.
    Please do not confuse me with other gratefulsforhelp. x
  • Miss_Voodoo
    Miss_Voodoo Posts: 65 Forumite
    Are you sure you didn't move into the Big Brother house by mistake?
  • I don't think that little lap pool counts as a swimming pool!

    Move out ASAP and just write off your losses. Your best out of it.

    An easy way of telling if it is a HMO or not would be to check if it has a hard-wired fire alarm system, if not it is unlikely that it has been registered as a HMO.
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  • poppy10_2
    poppy10_2 Posts: 6,588 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper

    Have you looked at Data protection Act?
    As stated above, the Data Protection Act does not apply to domestic CCTV used within a private household property.
    Could you erm put on a show with your GF and then claim he is making innapropiate movies of his tenants
    If the OP has 'relations' with his girlfriend in the living room of a shared house, with prior knowledge that there are cameras recording, then the landlord would be perfectly entitled to watch the videos and fap away to his heart's content.
    poppy10
  • stekin
    stekin Posts: 16 Forumite
    Hi Skellysgirl - yes, in principle I could cover the camera each time but you can imagine how confrontational that would get in a shared house where the landlord shares the same areas! Being in a living hell isn't my goal!

    Also not so sure that my case would be helped by prancing around drunk and naked!!

    Hi Gratefulforhelp - potentially the DPA can help but Poppy10's thoughts were that it's not worth going down this road and I probably wouldn't be covered anyway

    Hi Miss Voodoo - this is exactly why I want to leave, right now!!
  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    poppy10 wrote: »
    If the OP has 'relations' with his girlfriend in the living room of a shared house, with prior knowledge that there are cameras recording, then the landlord would be perfectly entitled to watch the videos and fap away to his heart's content.

    i'd just sit in the lounge fapping off while winking and waving to the camera.
  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Also what if you happened to be vulnerable would he be allowed to record you then?
    Ie get drunk and naked?

    Could you erm put on a show with your GF and then claim he is making innapropiate movies of his tenants

    I know my suggestions are not quite the right idea, but I am trying to find a way to make his installing a cameras backfire

    Perhaps that is why the LL has installed the cameras :eek:
  • Anubis_2
    Anubis_2 Posts: 4,077 Forumite
    G_M wrote: »
    1) you are a lodger, not a tenant. The 12 months fixed term business is rubbish. Give 'reasonable' notice in writing (2 weeks?) then move out. Better still, give a months notice but don't pay rent for that month

    2) Sounds like you'll have to go to a Small Claims Court for your deposit (which you'll get eventually)

    3) 7 separate people in the house? (you plus 5 others plus LL?). That's a HMO (House of Multiple Occupation). LOTS of regulations. Contact the council! I bet he's not registered and it'll cost him a lot to fix things right!

    4) internal CCTV? spray paint.

    5) Is he declaring these 6 people's rent for tax? I bet not. HMRC tax fraud here.

    6) Does he have a mortgage and does his lender know he has 6 lodgers? £4 to the Land Registry will reveal his mortgage lender.

    7) is there gas in the house? Have you seen a gas safety certificate?
    "What should I do if my landlord refuses to arrange servicing for the appliances s/he has provided for my use?

    Remind your landlord of their legal duties under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 . If your landlord still refuses to arrange servicing for the appliances they have provided contact your local HSE Area Office."


    I would check out everything in this post, and I mean everything - don't take someone's word that he is abiding by all the laws as I am sure he may not be. Don't get mad, get even, as the saying goes ;)

    As someone pointed out, the property should have a hard wired alarm - does it? This LL sounds like he has nothing better to do but to impose on the lives of other's and I also find it very questionable as to why he has installed cctv to the level he has - to the point of perversion perhpas.

    Move out, then get even, report him for everything you suspect him of. ;)
    How people treat you becomes their karma; how you react becomes yours.
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