Rent a room scheme

penwise

Thinking of converting garage into bedroom living room and small kitchen and letting it out as a room to a lodger under the rent a room scheme.

The only shared room would be the shower room in the main house with a door from the converted garage into it.

This way person will not have access to rest of rooms in the house and I will not have access to the converted garage.

Does anyone see any potential issues with this?

Thanks

Guest101

penwise wrote: »

Thinking of converting garage into bedroom living room and small kitchen and letting it out as a room to a lodger under the rent a room scheme.

The only shared room would be the shower room in the main house with a door from the converted garage into it.

This way person will not have access to rest of rooms in the house and I will not have access to the converted garage.

Does anyone see any potential issues with this?

Thanks

Yes, he might be a tenant not a lodger ( might being operative word )

TheFox30

Tenant was my first thought - is there any way of confirming in advance what the person would be classed as?

oldbaldman

The actual title and type of occupant and occupancy will be determined solely by the circumstances of their occupancy, including consideration of what rooms and facilities they share, whether they have sole and exclusive occupant of their room to which the LL has access for cleaning or has no access.

Will the occupant have their own front door, or their own access?

OP may intend one type of occupancy but the circumstances may make it another?

obm

penwise

Thanks for the replies.
If the person rents a room in your house and shares some common areas e.g. Show room are they not lodgers?
I would not expect them to share any of the rest of the house except the shower room and i would agree with them access to their room if this makes a difference

kinger101

The relevant legislation does not use the term lodgers;

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2005/5/part/7/chapter/1

The important part I guess is:

798(2) If a building, or part of a building, designed for permanent use as a single residence is temporarily divided into two or more separate residences, it is still treated as a single residence.

I hope you're only doing this for a tenant who needs something closer to work Mon-Fri. I can't even begin to imagine what sort of a tenant you'd get who'd want to live in a converted garage on a full-time basis.

Talc1234

I suspect that the original poster will also have their own bathroom and isn't likely to use the shower room. The shared shower room is in fact a ruse to make an assured shorthold tenancy look like a lodger's agreement.

kinger101

Talc1234 wrote: »

I suspect that the original poster will also have their own bathroom and isn't likely to use the shower room. The shared shower room is in fact a ruse to make an assured shorthold tenancy look like a lodger's agreement.

This is entirely irrelevant. You can still get the relief for a self-contained flat. Provided that the division from the main residence is only temporary.

penwise

Talc1234 wrote: »

I suspect that the original poster will also have their own bathroom and isn't likely to use the shower room. The shared shower room is in fact a ruse to make an assured shorthold tenancy look like a lodger's agreement.

Actually I take a shower every morning here and will continue to do so.

oldbaldman

Talc1234 wrote: »

I suspect that the original poster will also have their own bathroom and isn't likely to use the shower room. The shared shower room is in fact a ruse to make an assured shorthold tenancy look like a lodger's agreement.

In which case the set up will most likely be a tenancy, with a tenant, with all the rights and obligations that this entails.

obm

penwise

kinger101 wrote: »

Provided that the division from the main residence is only temporary.

Thanks for the reply

I am not sure what the above means