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Flatmate's Mum is trying to stop me subletting!
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Either
* let him move in as a lodger, or
* ask the LL to assign your position as joint tenant to him, or
* ask the LL to end the current tenancy and create a new one.0 -
Exactly as G_M says:Either
* let him move in as a lodger - least admin required, but you'll still be on the hook / middle man if lodger fails to pay rent / damages, or
* ask the LL to assign your position as joint tenant to him - LL / agent may not know how to execute this as a deed but if they do, it should best way, or
* ask the LL to end the current tenancy and create a new one. - more faff with deposits, inventories etc but should be routine legwork for LL / agent
Subletting as a landlord/subtenant would leave you on the hook / middle man to the main LL, but would also involve the paperwork of setting up a new tenancy, deposits, protection, tax, gas certs. how to rent booket etc etc so worst of both worlds in a way..0 -
Exactly as G_M says:
Subletting as a landlord/subtenant would leave you on the hook / middle man to the main LL, but would also involve the paperwork of setting up a new tenancy, deposits, protection, tax, gas certs. how to rent booket etc etc so worst of both worlds in a way..
I've decided that the lodger route is the most straighforward for the remaining four months and am prepared to be on the hook as I would be otherwise if he didn't move in!0 -
I assume your current flatmate's mother is worried that she's not going to get all of "her" deposit back as the landlord will use the fact that the new bloke smokes as justification for keeping part of it either for cleaning (removing the smell of smoke) or repairs for minor fag burns etc on floors or furniture?
Sadly, I can sympathise, and suspect that some landlords would try it on, regardless of what they say now. I would claim that the new boke's decided to quit the smokes if I were you...0 -
Subletting as a landlord/subtenant would leave you on the hook / middle man to the main LL, but would also involve the paperwork of setting up a new tenancy, deposits, protection, tax, gas certs. how to rent booket etc etc so worst of both worlds in a way..
No, because that wouldn't be an AST, as already said, because the other joint-tenant would still live at the property.0
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