Resident Assocation Meeting

ValHaller

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

They're not "obviously" doing anything. All it would take is for the OP to invite the members of the RA and the landlord to have the meeting in their property and it would be immediately apparent that it's not the OP who is doing or has done any smoking in there.

I think g101 makes a fair point here. The residents association meeting to deal with this does have the ring of the bad old days of Maoist China with Revolutionary Courts and public confessions. It is far too aggressive.

I think however that your idea of OP having the meeting in their property is a good one - although OP may need to be on the ball to retain control in their own home. There is an advantage in having authority over the chair ....

G_M

My reading of this is that the RA has regular meetings (which is a goodthing) and they/the landlord would like the OP to go to the next one - wherever/whenever it is.

My advice? Go.

Granted, there is no obligation. As a tenant, the OP has no official membership of the RA, no vote, and cannot be made to do/not do anything by them. However,

a) attending will keep good relations with the landlord. Whether he would go as far as a S21 if the OP refused is uncertain (unlikely in my view), but attending will make him happy. Surely that is worth an hour of your time one evening, on a one-off basis?

b) attending will help forge relationswith neighbours. If they are already suspecting smoking/drugs, refusal to attend will just make this worse. And who knows, you might even make friends with a neighbour or two.

ValHaller

G_M wrote: »

b) attending will help forge relations with neighbours. If they are already suspecting smoking/drugs, refusal to attend will just make this worse. And who knows, you might even make friends with a neighbour or two.

You would like to think so. But I fear that this is motivated by residents who do not wish to live with tenants.

BitterAndTwisted

Eh, it's motivate by people who don't want their properties and the common-parts stinking of fags. It's really none of their damned business what others choose to do in the privacy of their own homes but pointing this out is not likely to make the OP popular with their landlord or forge good relations with the other neighbours.

I'd go along with it as long as it didn't involve being spied on or treated like a child by strangers who think they're in loco parentis.

olly300

ValHaller wrote: »

You would like to think so. But I fear that this is motivated by residents who do not wish to live with tenants.

Actually neighbours who live next to tenants try and keep good ones living next to them for as long as possible.

ValHaller

olly300 wrote: »

Actually neighbours who live next to tenants try and keep good ones living next to them for as long as possible.

That seems to be the wise thing to do. But then taking this matter to the residents committee in the first instance does not appear to be the way to deal with with the apparent problem.

hazyjo

They probably emailed/posted letters to all occupants saying the same thing, hoping to smoke one of them out (no pun intended!).

Have you spoken with more than one neighbour? If one didn't get the email/letter, they may well be the one who reported it!

Jx

dodger1

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

They're not "obviously" doing anything. All it would take is for the OP to invite the members of the RA and the landlord to have the meeting in their property and it would be immediately apparent that it's not the OP who is doing or has done any smoking in there.

That's just being sensible which I thought had been banned on these forums