Moving boyfriend into student digs

Hey_Dude

My kid is doing her second year and sharing a 10 bedroom house with 9 other students.

She wants to share her room with her boyfriend who is not a student. I'm a bit concerned that this may be frowned upon by the landlord or am I worrying about nothing?

Any help or anecdotes would be appreciated!

Just_Like_Honey

The room will be let for one person, and they'll expect her and her only to live in it. So she could get in trouble with the landlord (could be seen as subletting?) and the other housemates probably won't like it either. A girl in our student house moved her boyfriend in with her in the final year and we ended up hating them both as he wasn't paying bills, just contributing towards her quarter.. He was using the shower etc when we were trying to get ready in the mornings and we just generally started to resent them. All in all he should rent his own flat or they should rent somewhere together!

Just_Like_Honey

And if he lives there they'll have to pay council tax.

System

Just_Like_Honey wrote: »

And if he lives there they'll have to pay council tax.

No, he will have to pay the council tax on his own with only a single person reduction as everybody else is exempt.

Can he afford to pay the CT on a (probably) band E or F house?

CIS

The non-student will generate a council tax charge but if its a 10 bed house and each person is only renting their room then its a HMO. This would mean the landlord is responsible for paying the council tax charge.

He then needs to recover the charge from the occupant(s) through their rent. A 10 bedroom property will have a very large council tax charge even with a 25 % reduction.

Voyager2002

Hey_Dude wrote: »

My kid is doing her second year and sharing a 10 bedroom house with 9 other students.

She wants to share her room with her boyfriend who is not a student. I'm a bit concerned that this may be frowned upon by the landlord or am I worrying about nothing?

Any help or anecdotes would be appreciated!

If the landlord has any sense, he will not allow this.

As others have explained, this move would cause all sorts of problems for everyone else concerned.

Hey_Dude

I should have added that I agreed to act as a guarantor for my kid - does what she is planning to do have any risk for me?

I have suggested that she simply talks to her landlord and do things properly...

Voyager2002

Hey_Dude wrote: »

I should have added that I agreed to act as a guarantor for my kid - does what she is planning to do have any risk for me?

I have suggested that she simply talks to her landlord and do things properly...

No obvious risk... but if her actions mean that the landlord faces an unexpected Council Tax bill (perhaps for thousands) he might well seek to recover the money from her -- or her guarantor.

nimbo

I lived in a ten bed house in Plymouth when I was previously a student.

One girl moved her partner in, and it caused no end of issues.

They were always in the bathroom when we wanted it, paid noting (except to help out the partner), made loads of mess, and it meant we had to lie to the landlord - as they wouldn't have let them live there....

There were issues with the council and the council tax, they started to chase us all, as we were all registered there (we got forms to prove we were exempt) we all started to get 'snitty' letters, as the house had become eligible for the 25% discount only. We all had to repetitively send in the exemption forms to ensure we weren't made to pay...

It caused no end of issues.

Conversely, the girl who moved her boyfriend into his own room (he was a student at a different uni) caused no issues we all loved him (and his evil drunk twin brother Alan)...

I don't imagine the landlord will be happy, and it could cause no end of issues....

Hey_Dude

Voyager2002 wrote: »

No obvious risk... but if her actions mean that the landlord faces an unexpected Council Tax bill (perhaps for thousands) he might well seek to recover the money from her -- or her guarantor.

That is a worry - so potentially the fact that a non-student lives there triggers a council tax bill which with a 25% discount could equate to £2000-3000....

From what I can tell the landlord would be responsible and could quite happily pass levy this against the occupant of the leased property - i.e. my kid....

Am I reading that right do you think?

Voyager2002

Hey_Dude wrote: »

That is a worry - so potentially the fact that a non-student lives there triggers a council tax bill which with a 25% discount could equate to £2000-3000....

From what I can tell the landlord would be responsible and could quite happily pass levy this against the occupant of the leased property - i.e. my kid....

Am I reading that right do you think?

That is how I understand the position, yes.