Renting double/single bed: Where do we stand?

Bogof_Babe

I too agree with the OP. She has effectively hired sleeping accommodation for five people, so is entitled to expect to be provided with enough beds to accommodate five people.

If the description includes a bathroom, should she have asked them to confirm that the bath would still be there?

seven-day-weekend

To me, whether a bedroom is defined as single or double is purely a matter of size, not furniture.

I have never rented privately so perhaps I'm looking at it with different eyes, but to me a double bedroom is one that is big enough to have a double bed. However even if the place was furnished I would not assume it to have a double bed in it.

(Just remembered, we used to rent out a flat and it had two double bedrooms as to size, and we advertised it as two double bedrooms.. However, the smaller room contained a single bed. It never even entered my head that the tenant might expect a double bed in there. The single bed was in the room when the tenant came to view the flat, however, so they did know what they were getting beforehand).


Anyway OP, I hope you get it sorted out. I'd try and move the bed from the other room if I were you. It went in, so it has to come out!!

Bogof_Babe

I still think the onus was on whoever wrote the description to put "two double bedrooms (one with single bed)". Otherwise the OP's assumption was perfectly logical.

People who live in rented homes do not expect to have to go around buying whatever furniture they find is missing, especially as the next place they go might have no room to store the excess items.

Pursue your complaint OP, I think you have valid cause.

(If all else fails, would your parents not accept sleeping in separate rooms when they visit?).

seven-day-weekend

Yes, I agree that would have been the best and most unambiguous way to describe the bedding/bedroom arrangements, Bogof Babe.

I was also going to suggest that the parents slept separately!

Or they could all do what we did last week; we gave both the bedrooms to the visitors and we slept on an airbed and a sofa in the living room! Maybe OP and partner could have the single beds and the parents the double?

thesaint

I see a 'parody' of this thread appearing soon. :cool:

nobblyned

Wow, battle of the pedants, loving it!

I particularly like the bit where Melissa writes in bold inside the quoted post, so she can be pedantic to each and every point. :rotfl:

Unknown1234_2

moneysavinmonkey wrote: »

but i didn't! too late now.. you need to get over that!! :rotfl:

My very first question was what do i do now?! get over it

Nobody tells the people claiming back their bank charges they shouldn't have gone overdrawn in the first place. I think you will find they do I've taken you point about not checking, but you just keep making it again and again!!!! aswell as other points, the last time i said it was because you said the point was the advert wa smisleading and to me its not the point is....

What did i ever do to you? Ask a question and got someone who gave you and answer you werent looking for You aren't a letting agent are you!

See above in bold

Unknown1234_2

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

I too agree with the OP. She has effectively hired sleeping accommodation for five people, so is entitled to expect to be provided with enough beds to accommodate five people.

If the description includes a bathroom, should she have asked them to confirm that the bath would still be there?

No but if it said bathroom i wouldnt have a hissy fit if it has a shower and not a bath because it says bathroom

Unknown1234_2

nobblyned wrote: »

Wow, battle of the pedants, loving it!

I particularly like the bit where Melissa writes in bold inside the quoted post, so she can be pedantic to each and every point. :rotfl:

Otherwise i get accused of not answering the question!

nobblyned

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

No but if it said bathroom i wouldnt have a hissy fit if it has a shower and not a bath because it says bathroom

No, but that would be obvious when you viewed.

To continue your analogy:

Would you not be entitled to complain if - when you viewed - there was a bath, but when you moved in it had been replaced by a shower?