HELP - Renting room in my property ?

theartfullodger

stylus360 wrote: »

Hi

In these hard times i have decided to ..............

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Hard times eh?? & this is the same stylus360 that said in this thread..
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2500591

Hi All

I paid my mortage off couple years back

& in
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1845777

Botox - Where's the cheapest ?

Hi all

Looking to get this done asap.

& in this one
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1702871

Shall i add another £3600 to my ISA ?????
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Hi All

Last tax year i had an a cash ISA with Abbey and paid full amount into it. Then at the start of this tax year i paid £3600 into it and just after that was payed into it transfered the full amount to a Natwest E-ISA.

I am know getting letters asking me do i want to deposit £3600 into this account.

I am pretty sure that i can not as i have used my full amount for this year ?

Or shall i just put another £3600 in..........

Blimey, if that's hard times can I have some of them please??

I'm sure you don't mean to come across as a greedy person wanting to rip the state off as we both know you ain't...
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Any improvement in the face??

Cheers!

Artful

The_Palmist

ahahaha that is some work artful...brilliant

theartfullodger

The_Palmist wrote: »

ahahaha that is some work artful...brilliant

We aim to please Palmist, we aim to please...

Werdnal

theartfullodger wrote: »

Hard times eh?? & this is the same stylus360 that said in this thread..
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2500591

& in
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1845777
& in this one
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1702871
Blimey, if that's hard times can I have some of them please??

I'm sure you don't mean to come across as a greedy person wanting to rip the state off as we both know you ain't...
.
Any improvement in the face??

Cheers!

Artful

:rotfl::T:rotfl:

G_M

stylus360 wrote: »

I have been on my local council site, i put down £95 a week as that's what i want. But i received the first cheque in my name and it's for £46.15 a week.

But it also states £90 for 2 bedrooms, £100 for 3 bedrooms.

My house is a 3 bedroom, and my lodger has one room and access to rest of the house ?

Is this correct ??

I think his last accommodation was classed as 1 bedroom self contained where as we know share bathroom and this is where the decrepency is.

If he can make the difference up then all is fine, but i doubt he will be able to.

Just trying to ease the burden temporarily and looks like a will have to find a fully employed lodger.

I read up here - http://www.powys.gov.uk/index.php?id=10277&L=0

Cheers guys.

I don't understand why the lodger's benefit claims are anything to do with you. HIS claim is HIS business and HIS problem.

The rent, on the other hand, is YOUR concern. So as I said before:

If the agreement you signed with your lodger...was for £95 then he should pay you £95.

How he pays (from housing benefit, savings, borrowing whatever) is his problem, not yours.

As said above, remember to declare the £95 per week as taxable income (that's £4940 pa - over the rent-a-room scheme limit.

If he does not pay the agreed rent, evict him - as said above he's a lodger with few rights so you just tell him to leave.

sandraroffey

if you want that much for a room, (to me thats far to much) he will have to make up the short fall. AND, if the rent you charge him includes bills (not food, bills) they will also reduce it accordingly.

the housing benefit do not pay his full rent. and it sounds like you have received the right amount in LHA. he has to pay the rest.

rexmedorum

that's 411 pcm for a room by the way. In most places that is studio and 1 bed flat price band, can only assume you are in central London?

BitterAndTwisted

Look at it this way: £45 a week when the OP has no mortgage to pay means that the increase in Council Tax is covered and all if not a substantial proportion of the utility bills will be covered by the taxpayer. Result!

screamer

I think OP is trying to get a lodger to fund his new house purchase. Hard times indeed.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3426501

Badger_Lady

It's extremely overpriced for Powys - the landlord has clearly decided to do this on the basis of receiving housing benefit, which is completely the wrong way of going about things. In fact I'm surpirised your Local Authority haven't picked up on it (when I had *genuine* lodgers recieving housing benefit I had to write to them with evidence of my relationship with her).

This is not how you rent a room, Stylus. When you rent a room, you work out how much your room is worth, advertise it to rent, and carefully select a lodger who's willing and able to pay that rent. They can be employed or they can receive housing benefit, but it's up to them to pay the amount you've set.

I don't know much about you, but I know your room isn't worth £95 a week.