What practical issues would someone who is merely a 'lodger' not 'tenant' face?

helpmeimagraduate

Hi there. My friend and I are moving into a flatshare. You may have seen my other thread but the current arrangement (until we can get the contract changed) is that one of us is the named tenant and the other has status as lodger, not being a named tenant on the tenancy agreement with the landlord.

Would lodger be able to:
- use the property as her address on correspondence and also use the address as proof of address (for whatever reason e.g. putting something in storage will require proof of address, registering with a local doctor).

- take out a contents insurance policy on that property


Thanks

martinsurrey

yes and yes,

but the tenant could kick the lodger out for any reason with as little as 24 hours notice.

thesaint

Why have you created another thread?

JuicyJesus

Presumably because on this one she hasn't said anything racist.

JuicyJesus

Sorry, I forgot: "unfortunate".

"Oh dear, my fingers slipped and completely by accident I posted a specific claim that I would prefer my letting agent be English because I think non-English people will scam me! How unfortunate! Butterfingers!"

helpimagraduate_on_the_other_thread,_text_now_deleted wrote:

it was in a nice office in West London and there were English people working there.

helpimagraduate_on_LandlordZone wrote:

I do feel more trusting if I am dealing with English people. Nothing discriminatory at all but there is so much bad press about foreign scammers

How unfortunate of her that she accidentally hit all of those keys in that exact order, and then copied and pasted her accidental writings onto a totally different forum.

Soundgirlrocks

JuicyJesus wrote: »

Sorry, I forgot: "unfortunate".

"Oh dear, my fingers slipped and completely by accident I posted a specific claim that I would prefer my letting agent be English because I think non-English people will scam me! How unfortunate! Butterfingers!"


How unfortunate of her that she accidentally hit all of those keys in that exact order, and then copied and pasted her accidental writings onto a totally different forum.

Oh come on give the OP a break! We all make mistakes, and they have been told off, and I'm sure they realise their comments caused offence, no need to follow them onto a new thread just to resurrect an old argument. In the words of Avenue Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM

JuicyJesus

Soundgirlrocks wrote: »

Oh come on give the OP a break! We all make mistakes, and they have been told off, and I'm sure they realise their comments caused offence

Erm, no. That's not a "mistake". People don't try and justify their mistakes, nor do they deliberately repeat them. And the OP doesn't seem to see what's wrong with what they said, they just say it was "unfortunate" that they said something horrifically idiotic and racist.

I consider racism morally unacceptable, and it stuns me that someone supposedly educated can hold such bigoted views.

Guest101

Not really racist, its personal opinion, like saying she prefers to buy her shooping at waitrose than sainsbury's. Or prefers to use highstreet names over small businesses.

If the OP associates being english, with being trustworthy, more fool them.

JuicyJesus

Guest101 wrote: »

Not really racist, its personal opinion, like saying she prefers to buy her shooping at waitrose than sainsbury's.

Again, erm, no. Personal preference over service, quality, pricing etc is entirely different from judging someone's ability or likelihood to scam you on their ethnicity, something they have absolutely no control over.

Guest101

JuicyJesus wrote: »

Again, erm, no. Personal preference over service, quality, pricing etc is entirely different from judging someone's ability or likelihood to scam you on their ethnicity, something they have absolutely no control over.

It's an opinion, and you can't control an opinion of someone else. Doesn't matter if service was fantastic and prices low. That's not the point.

Like I said, if the OP believes that a foreigner (and im a foreigner!) would scame them and an english person wouldn't, more fool them. But having an opinion is not a crime.

grifferz

I fail to see what answers OP can expect to get on this thread that have not already been given to her on her other thread. The exact questions asked in the first post were already answered on the other thread.

It is hard to see this behaviour as anything but provoking.

Are we being trolled?