Lodger problem

summerholiday

Advertise the room for rent tomorrow and clean windows etc. Put this negative lodger as 'down to experience' and think of this incident as 'just business'. Make sure you let her know you are 'in charge' and physically take up the space in your home.

Curtail any more laundering etc and reorganise the food spaces she has hithertoo used to something smaller

Is the lodger registered on the electoral roll? If so get her to sign the removal of her name from the listing by printing out the template the council office has on-line and in-line with the notice period I assume you both agreed, before returning any pro-rata deposit - in fact tell her that you will refund the pro-rata deposit when you find the next lodger to take her place.

If she is intending purchasing an iphone, dvla, credit card, etc ensure your address will not be used for a new contract and bank account details etc. Ask her outright.

Will she have a forwarding address for her post ?

How long was she living at her previous address?

Guest101

HappyMJ wrote: »

It really doesn't matter what the contract says the lodger has no legal protection. The lodger cannot go to court to get possession of the room back if the landlord has locked the lodger out.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Precisely.

Kick her out now Joan - and change the locks immediately afterwards.

You're both acting very ignorantly.

A lodger has little legal protection in the sense that the law provides little legal status to being a lodger, as a minimum.

If a contract is breached, the lodger can sue for losses. In this case, she could get a B&B and sue the Landlord for the cost, as she has 'lost' her accomodation, for the notice period.

That's basic contract law. And a lodger's agreement is a contract.

Just because it's not a tenancy and therefore governed by legislation directly, doesnt mean you can just ignore a contract.

Stop posting such nonsense.

Guest101

summerholiday wrote: »

Advertise the room for rent tomorrow and clean windows etc. Put this negative lodger as 'down to experience' and think of this incident as 'just business'. Make sure you let her know you are 'in charge' and physically take up the space in your home.

Curtail any more laundering etc and reorganise the food spaces she has hithertoo used to something smaller

Is the lodger registered on the electoral roll? If so get her to sign the removal of her name from the listing by printing out the template the council office has on-line and in-line with the notice period I assume you both agreed, before returning any pro-rata deposit - in fact tell her that you will refund the pro-rata deposit when you find the next lodger to take her place.

If she is intending purchasing an iphone, dvla, credit card, etc ensure your address will not be used for a new contract and bank account details etc. Ask her outright.

Will she have a forwarding address for her post ?

How long was she living at her previous address?

All of this is pointless. The lodger is entitled to use the address, that is her present and in the future, previous address.