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My lodger...
inigma
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Does anyone else lodger just not leave their home? All mine does when he isn't working is just lie on the couch and watch TV.
Sorry didn't mean to rant, he gives me a lot of money each month which knocks 6 week of my mortgage. Just gets a bit annoying he's always here and never goes on holiday or back home to see his family.
Ok rant over.
Sorry didn't mean to rant, he gives me a lot of money each month which knocks 6 week of my mortgage. Just gets a bit annoying he's always here and never goes on holiday or back home to see his family.
Ok rant over.
06/06/2023 mortgage mort dateJUST BRING IT
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If this one doesn't suit, get a different lodger. One who you can get along with. It's not hard.0
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Debt free since July 2013! Woo hoo! The bank actually laughed when I said I have come in to cancel my overdraft.0
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Our sitting room was always out of bounds to lodgers, unless we invited them in. Might be too late now, with this one, but next time, they can have a TV in their room.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Kick him out.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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I don't really know what advice you're expecting to get? Unless you insist that your next lodger has an active social life or ban lodger's from your lounge, there doesn't seem much to complain about here? Your lodger may have recently moved into the city so not know many people, hence why he's lodging. Or he might just like being a couch potato - working shift work is stressful and exhausting! At the end of the day you want extra money to help with your mortgage, so you need a lodger. This one is paying you on time, and you haven't mentioned him being messy? If he's annoying you just kick him out and get a new lodger who annoys you less. Or a lodger who's on say a 5 days a week lodging so you get weekends to yourself? I saw a lot of these kinds of adverts on spareroom.co.uk
If you really hate sharing your house though, ultimately maybe having a lodger isn't for you!0 -
Get a Mon-Fri lodger with a home elsewhere0
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If he's clean, quiet, tidy, doesn't smoke and follows house rules, where is the the problem? Sounds perhaps a little lazy, or shy or lonely but could be a lot worse. You are their landlord, not a lifestyle coach.
Mine were all incredibly dirty and untidy despite their more advanced social skills, close family ties and active social lives compared with yours. One of them skipped off owing rent and probably tampered with my mail and tried to open up online accounts with clothes retailers in false names and left a pile of debt collection agency letters for good measure.
Why not offer to install a comfy chair, TV and coffee table in their bedroom? Perhaps they'd prefer that than being in close proximity with someone who seems a bit tetchy about their presence.0 -
seven-day-weekend wrote: »Our sitting room was always out of bounds to lodgers, unless we invited them in. Might be too late now, with this one, but next time, they can have a TV in their room.
That has always seemed a touch mean to me, particularly if their room is small. Remember that a lodger with a tv in their room has to buy a separate licence to watch live tv (unless related to you). My lodger takes a pretty balanced approach. He is welcome in my living room but does spend quite a bit of time in his room.0 -
A touch mean? I think it's really rude and unfriendly, to put it mildly.0
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Sorry didn't mean to rant, he gives me a lot of money each month which knocks 6 week of my mortgage. Just gets a bit annoying he's always here and never goes on holiday or back home to see his family.
Ok rant over.
If you want the money then accept the inconvenience.
Personally I've never wanted a lodger. My privacy in my own home is more important than the money.0
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