Lodger - Notice Period

rtho782

By default a lodger should have a license to occupy not a tenancy agreement, but you might have given her a tenancy agreement if you have not been careful with the wording of whatever agreement you have drawn up, or if for example you have let her put a lock on her door, or otherwise given her exclusive occupation of her room.

If she only has a license to occupy she has far fewer rights and everything is quite easy. If she has a tenancy, it is less so.

Either way I feel strongly that rather than trying to hold her to a notice period is pointless and only exacerbates any issues you might have. She could decide she has a tenancy and not a license to occupy and then pursue you for failure to protect her deposit for example.

Just let her go, charge her for up to the day she leaves.