I'm very uncormfortable with my landlord's requests. Please advise

rrtt

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Strapped wrote: »

Yet she has to trust someone she barely knows in her home. Frankly, if you were my lodger I'd give you your marching orders if you started quibbling over £100 deposit. (Although of course I would give you a receipt).

But a) Bella doesn't want to risk losing her £100 for no good reason - why should she - and the amount is irrelevant and b) why on earth wouldn't an honest, decent landlord/landlady give a receipt or accept a cheque? If all the other tenants have paid cash, the odd cheque or two for £100 aren't going to take her over the income limit tax-wise anyway.

Werdnal

Bella* wrote: »

I paid my rent to keep the roof over my head, because I didn't have anywhere else to go to. I got a receipt for it. I am going to give her a month's notice, but if she still wants the deposit even though I will be leaving, I will probably have to pay it, because otherwise she could ask me to leave with immediate effect, and I would have nowhere else to go to until I found a new place.

But as I have previously said, if you and she both signed an "agreement" stating a month notice, then she cannot ask you to leave immediately. If you are required to give a month's notice, then so is she!

martindow

Could this be an HMO? If so there could be requirements the LL is not complying with such as being licensed with the local authority..

Strapped

rrtt wrote: »

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But a) Bella doesn't want to risk losing her £100 for no good reason - why should she - and the amount is irrelevant and b) why on earth wouldn't an honest, decent landlord/landlady give a receipt or accept a cheque? If all the other tenants have paid cash, the odd cheque or two for £100 aren't going to take her over the income limit tax-wise anyway.

I think you missed the last sentence of my post.

rrtt

Strapped wrote: »

I think you missed the last sentence of my post.

Nope, didn't, but was talking about her real-life LL, not what you'd have done yourself hypothetically

Bella*_2

Just to clarify- I could not care less about whether she is evading tax.That does not bother me . What bothered me was risking losing £100. £100 may not be much money to other people, but it is a huge amount me right now, as I'm sure it also is for some other people on this forum who may be in debt/have fallen on hard times. I'm not quibbling over paying. I just would have been far happier to have the option to by bank transfer or cheque. I have rented numerous places in the past, and have never been asked for cash. It's not exactly standard to ask for everything in cash, and I wanted to know whether people on here would also find this odd, or whether I really am being 'paranoid' like the landlady thinks. The general consensus is that yeah, it's not exactly an ideal situation.

This thread was about me protecting my financial interests, especially as I am not in a good position financially atm. My concern was having to pay £100 in cash, as there is obviously less proof, and if she didn't give it back, I still would have to find money for a new deposit somewhere else, and this all adds up. Tax evasion came up as the probable reason she does this, but if someone wants to avoid tax, I don't care as long as my money is not compromised.


Anyway, I have decided that this living situation cannot be viable for me, as I need the better financial safeguarding that a rental agreement with deposit protection scheme gives, so I'm going to give in my notice.

Bella*_2

Werdnal wrote: »

But as I have previously said, if you and she both signed an "agreement" stating a month notice, then she cannot ask you to leave immediately. If you are required to give a month's notice, then so is she!

Yeah, I read your post, but what I was wondering was that the £100 deposit is obviously part of the terms of the agreement- if I didn't pay her this because I didn't want to risk paying it in cash, surely the whole agreement is void because I have broken the terms of it, by not giving the deposit? Therefore, I'm not sure she'd have to give me a month's notice, but rather she could just ask me to get out, and I couldn't risk that. So I may have to chance the cash, have an awkward month's living situation, leave on good terms, and hope for the best. :-)