Partner visiting HMO

westernpromise

Guest101 wrote: »

Well you have a contract first, then charge rent.


So you should've said, he would offer to add them to the tenancy. Note the word offer.


If they don't agree, there's no way to force rent from them.


Had you said evict them and the tenant, that would also be reasonable.

So you didn't have the information and you just !!!-umed.

OP, take note.

Robisere

These two are having fun, aren't they?

Bless...

Guest101

westernpromise wrote: »

So you didn't have the information and you just !!!-umed.

OP, take note.

Bored of this nonsense now, you have nothing of value to add.


I didn't assume, I worked with the information provided.


If someone says 'charge them rent', that's a direct, authoritative stance.


Choose your words more carefully and such mix ups wont happen

Dan-Dan

Robisere wrote: »

These two are having fun, aren't they?

Bless...

When old Guest gets going theres not a being on earth that can stop him...

fairy_lights

Robisere wrote: »

These two are having fun, aren't they?

Bless...

The chemistry is pretty electric...like a young Mulder & Scully

Dan-Dan

fairy_lights wrote: »

The chemistry is pretty electric...like a young Mulder & Scully

More like Mork and Mindy

Guest101

Dan-Dan wrote: »

When old Guest gets going theres not a being on earth that can stop him...

Less of the 'old'

cells

HMOs are probably the most difficult sector to please

Not only do you need to manage the property you also need to manage the relationships within the household and make sure max tenants are not exceeding the licence cap.

Difficult tenants exist. The critical part is not getting them into the property in the first place. Not only will they cause the landlord grief they will very likely also cause the other sharers grief.


I feel the state and HA sector should be running some 10% of its stock as HMOs just so they can see how much harder and problematic it is before they criticise such landlords. Of course people could argue there should be no HMOs but then where will the people with low budgets live? Some good HMO en-suit rooms can be had for less than £400pm in the midlands and north and that includes bills. Often that is even cheaper than a one bedroom flat from the council

westernpromise

cells wrote: »

Difficult tenants exist. The critical part is not getting them into the property in the first place. Not only will they cause the landlord grief they will very likely also cause the other sharers grief.

I understand from someone who does it that the way round this is to spec up the HMOs, so they have good security, wooden floors, mega broadband, granite in the kitchen and bathroom, nice light switch and plug fittings, LED lighting, sheltered secure bike storage, big flat screens screwed to the walls, and so on; and remodel the rooms so as to (eg) turn square rooms into L shapes so they don't feel like bedsits. He pitches these at well-paid grads who want something akin to life as a student but with a few more mod cons and hopefully you get several mates signing up all at once.

It's like This Life but not limited to lawyers. It only works in some locations though.

I live in fear that someone will colonise my sector of the lettings market and offer it down, but there's little sign of it because anecdotally I'm one of the few landlords of local million quid properties who isn't a cheapskate.