Unfairly treated as a tenant, do I have rights?

PasturesNew

Don't waste your time and energy on this utter shower.... just get out and leave them to fester in a world in which you need have no part in.

The whole shower are the sort of people you should distance yourself from.

Moon.cat

She didn't even send me a text message. I just explained above who lives there and how the rent is split. My partner sent me a text message saying she wants me out because as soon as I mentioned the tax thing she blocked my number. So I haven't had any formal, written, verbal, "text messages" directly from my landlord asking me to leave.

Moon.cat

Me and the housemate pay the money into my partners account and then he transfers it to her because she lives abroad. He's her "UK rep" or whatever you like to call it.

Red-Squirrel_2

There was a previous thread on this, think it was on the relationships board.
Boyfriend's mum owns the house.
He has own double room, pays no rent.
OP has a single room, pays market rent.
Another tenant has their own room, also pays market rent.
OP posted because the mother had allowed her daughter (her boyfriend's sister) to also live there rent free and OP was kicked out of her boyfriend's bed so that his sister could sleep in it with him.

It was basically bonkers, then she apparently got it deleted, so decide for yourselves if its worth wading in on this one!

Moon.cat

She lives abroad so she is unable to hand us the keys directly

elsien

G_M wrote: »

Who gave you your key - your partner or his mother?
Who do you give your rent money to - your partner or his mother?
If there's no written agreement, what verbal agreement was made and was it your partner who agreed everything with his mother or did you discuss/agree with her directly yourself.


This will clarify whether you are a tenant or not.


If you are, then clearly you have tenant's rights eg


* you do not have topay any rent unless/untill your landlord gives you, in writing, an address where you can serve notices on her
* you do not have to leave unless/until your LL gets a court possession order (via a S21 or S8 Notice)


However I am not convinced yet that your partner is not your landlord.....

Pretty much all covered in the last thread, now gone AWOL. I suspect this one is likely to go the same way.

Cheeky_Monkey

Oh yeah, I remember that. The boyfriend was sleeping with his sister :eek:

Annie35

Moon.cat wrote: »

Me and the housemate pay the money into my partners account and then he transfers it to her because she lives abroad. He's her "UK rep" or whatever you like to call it.

I think this makes it sounds like your a lodger (particularly as you rented your own room) & the bf is the live in landlord. (Ll's don't need to be the owner)

AnotherJoe

Is your bf still sleeping with his sister?
If you are still there after all that went before, its all on you never mind what mother may be doing.

No doubt if you refuse to go bf and sister will grab you by one arm each and chuck you out. Or if not, well what does it matter what she says, how is she going to physically evict you.
Anyway, forget your legal rights what about your dignity? Seems to me you are all as bad as each other, you clinging on to this house (didnt you go back to parents house???) by telling you leave, but moving with you, will he bring sister as well?

sevenhills

Moon.cat wrote: »

She lives abroad so she is unable to hand us the keys directly

Your boyfriend is effectively your landlord, he may well be using the 'owner lives abroad' as a get out of taking the responsibility.