Landlord trying to stop me any overnight guests under any circumstances

Hedgehog99

IMHO once or twice a week is pushing it on the frequency.

Since you are allowed daytime visitors, can't you just have your fun then and your GF can disappear on the stroke of midnight? Especially if you can stay all night at her place.

Cakeguts

joelpellington wrote: »

Also, I'm not an expert on the difference between being a lodger and a normal tenant? I'm still referred to as a tenant in my tenancy agreement, it looks the same as my old contract that I've at previous properties without a live in landlord

The tenancy agreement that you have doesn't represent the position that you are in. You are not a tenant you are a lodger because the landlord lives in the same property. As a lodger you don't have the right to decide to let your girlfriend stay. The rights are all with the landlord who has told you that you cannot have overnight guests. Do you really want the landlord to make your girlfriend leave his property?

McKneff

Why not just rent a room at her place.

Job sorted......

joelpellington

The problem is we live over an hour from each other. Also she works near me, so it makes sense she stays midweek and me vice versa at the weekend.
If she lived nearby I'd stay over there more often, but it just isn't practical, or even that feasible.

joelpellington

Can he literally demand her to leave there and then on the spot without taking any legal action?

Voyager2002

joelpellington wrote: »

The contract is originally six months, so I have 4 months left to go. What if he said I needed to wait this out and couldn't drop out, could I just keep bringing her round until he evicts me then?

Since you are a lodger you are not obliged to stay for the length of the agreement, nor is he obliged to let you stay if he is unhappy with you.

Voyager2002

joelpellington wrote: »

Can he literally demand her to leave there and then on the spot without taking any legal action?

Obviously he can, he can demand anything, but you can refuse. He is not likely to throw her out physically, and if he were to call the police they would not do anything. However, if things got to that point then I expect he would terminate the tenancy and you would need to find a new place to live very quickly.

joelpellington

Voyager2002 wrote: »

Since you are a lodger you are not obliged to stay for the length of the agreement, nor is he obliged to let you stay if he is unhappy with you.

Even despite my contract stating the term is 6 months? I am not contracted to stay for that long?
"The landlord agrees to let and the Tenant agrees to take the Property and Contents for the Term at the Rent payable as above"

Kynthia

As it is your landlords home the law allows them to decide who is in their home and who they would like to leave, barring a contract stating otherwise. So they can ask your guests to leave and ask you not to have overnight guests. It's different from being a tenant where you have 'exclusive occupation' of the area you rent, even the landlord can't just enter as they please, and you have right to live and enjoy your space without interference. It must be annoying to think you were renting a room as a tenant and only later finding out the landlord would be living in one of the rooms as it does change things for you. Is it definitely their main residence and not somewhere they stay occasionally with a home elsewhere?

You have a contract and both you and your landlord have to abide by it otherwise the other can sue for any losses caused by the breach in contract. You both have to mitigate your losses though.

When_the_going_gets_tough

You need to take advice from shelter or similar. Your landlord is trying to have their cake and eat it. If he is living there you are an excluded occupier not an assured short hold tenant. Get some advice if you can.