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As the guarantor, does my mum have a right to let herself in whenever she wants?
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I think you need to have a word with your landlord about not handing keys out to anyone. Change the locks if you can, just to be sure.
It might not be worth the hassle of saying anything to your mum. She probably feels a sense of entitlement to do this firstly because she’s your mum and secondly, she is your guarantor. It’s a bad combination. You’ll only end up in a row with her saying ‘you wouldn’t even have got the house without me!’ or calling you ungrateful etc.
Do what I did. Move further away from your mum. Not so far that it’s obviously deliberate but enough to be very inconvenient for her to visit on a whim.0 -
If you cannot resolve this by talking to your mum and getting her to understand the concept of 'privacy', then change the locks.
No need to give the landlady the new key - she has already provd herself to be unreliable in her attitude to handing out keys!
Keep the old lock and replace it when your tenancy ends.
Kill the bedbugs.
Also no need to 'tidy up' for an inspection. How you live in your own home is up to you, not up to your landlady or your mum.
as long as you return the property to the LL at the end of the tenancy in a decent condition, and do not cause damage, it is your home till then. Live how you want!0 -
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hazyjo, would you like to direct your mother to my place?
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Haha yup! She will happily hunt round for any ironing that needs doing too, and take washing, strip your bed, clean your oven, and have a good hoover round (behind sofas too).hazyjo, would you like to direct your mother to my place?
Really don't mean to be ungrateful - just a bit of warning would have been good :rotfl:2024 wins: *must start comping again!*0 -
Tut Tut not a real clean unless you move the sofas and hoover underneath.0
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