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What is the strangest rule a landlord has ever given you?
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We lived on a farm next door to the owner. There was oil central heating and he dictated a minimum amount of oil we must use. When we didn't use this amount he gave us (incorrectly drawn up) notice.0
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We were told no pictures or mirrors to be hung. We had our mirrors and pictures on the floor or surfaces leaning against the walls. The place never felt homely with bare walls so we left after a year. We were paying quite a bit at £900 a month over a decade ago in Cornwall.
It didn't help that the shower had only scald your skin off hot or freezing cold so couldn't be used - we used the bath- the shower "couldn't be mended because it was tiled in". I doubt the next tenants would stay long either so to avoid a few nail holes for pictures and mending the shower the landlord would continue to have turnover of tenants and void weeks.0 -
The strangest one I've heard of is "no singing".
Well, there is tuneful singing, and then there is the raucous screams that some claim to be "singing" - My house rules has a section stipulating "no excessive noise" which covers the less than pleasant "singing".Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
Erik Aronesty, 2014
Treasure the moments that you have. Savour them for as long as you can for they will never come back again.0 -
But replaced by 'No housing benefit/DHSS'.theartfullodger wrote: »When I started in the '70s it was not uncommon to see "No dogs, no Irish, no bl+cks". Thankfully largely gone.0 -
Years ago we once viewed a house which was being advertised as a two-bedroom house, but when we got there we realised that it had three bedrooms. The rule was to be that the landlady would keep the third bedroom for her stuff. It was to be kept locked (and neither we nor the letting agent would have a key) apart from when the landlady came back to the UK a 'few times a year', when she would stay there. We wouldn't be given notice of these visits because she said that she could just let herself in. The same landlady said that we would not be able to be in the house at all, ever, from 9-5 Monday to Friday. We didn't rent that one.0
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Your posting style is strangely familiar.
However giving the benefit of the doubt:
To tell anyone who asked I was not paying any rent.
Turned out he was fiddling the housing benefit. And he ended up getting me arrested for handling stolen goods.All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
We once had an AST which stated that we "must install a TV aerial or satellite dish without the landlord's permission". As the house had both already installed it did seem pointless trying to comply.0
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Rosemary7391 wrote: »I'd've been so tempted to get my saxophone out in lieu of singing. Bet that wasn't the intended result
You blow, lady! And I will have it known that my singing is quite good... On a good day.
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See Shelter's campaign...But replaced by 'No housing benefit/DHSS'.
https://www.housing.org.uk/latest-updates/new-campaign-with-shelter/0
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