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Can a tenant let someone stay in rented property when they are away

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  • Blackpool_Saver
    Blackpool_Saver Posts: 6,599 Forumite
    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    This thread just oozes superiority. Most people don't own their houses anyway, the bank does. Does the bank come round to check if you have ieft your windows open / have kids in the loft?

    Op, does your insurance cover you for having your stuff in the loft? Are you paying part of the council tax? Are you breaking the law now that you don't have a gas safety certificate?


    Yes, and often rent is more than a mortgage
    Blackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool

  • onwards&upwards
    onwards&upwards Posts: 3,423 Forumite
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    lookstraightahead wrote: »
    This thread just oozes superiority. Most people don't own their houses anyway, the bank does. Does the bank come round to check if you have ieft your windows open / have kids in the loft?

    Op, does your insurance cover you for having your stuff in the loft? Are you paying part of the council tax? Are you breaking the law now that you don't have a gas safety certificate?

    Common misunderstanding, but mortgage lenders don’t own houses unless they repossessed them.
  • aitchjg
    aitchjg Posts: 10 Forumite
    xylophone wrote: »
    Well.......some experienced landlords might comment on this.


    No more tenants ! Selling or family moving in.
  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    aitchjg wrote: »
    No more tenants ! Selling or family moving in.

    Good luck evicting them, I suspect you won’t be able to
  • aitchjg
    aitchjg Posts: 10 Forumite
    Blackpool_Saver wrote: »
    Can you let people in? Hell no.
    Window open, none of your business.
    You should be please someone is in the house whilst the tenant is away.
    Painted front door eh? Now that might have needed permission, but how bad was it before it was done?
    What sort of wires, and how are they 'going up'? Are they attached to the walls?


    Window open whilst house is unoccupied for 2 weeks...insurance!!
    Front door was brand new and nice stained wood....now painted not particularly well.
    Yes wires attached to walls....all up front of house...looks awful as not even on the edge. Guess she must have connected something as 2 sets of them.
  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    aitchjg wrote: »
    No more tenants ! Selling or family moving in.
    If you have family moving in without you being there too, they will be tenants. And that's even less advisable than letting strangers move in.
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • onwards&upwards
    onwards&upwards Posts: 3,423 Forumite
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    aitchjg wrote: »
    Window open whilst house is unoccupied for 2 weeks...insurance!!
    Front door was brand new and nice stained wood....now painted not particularly well.
    Yes wires attached to walls....all up front of house...looks awful as not even on the edge. Guess she must have connected something as 2 sets of them.


    Insurance? Surely the contents are all the tenants and insured by them so not your problem?

    Oh wait..
  • aitchjg
    aitchjg Posts: 10 Forumite
    seven-day-weekend wrote: »
    I must disagree with Comms69 on one point. It is still the LL's HOUSE. It is the tenant's HOME.

    I agree though that the LL should not be using the loft for storage - but neither should someone be sleeping up there unless it is up to regulations for a bedroom.


    Exactly...my house. Owned outright as an inheritance and hoping for family to move in when old enough. Spent so much installing central heating as no heating, fully decorated and new carpets and a new bathroom and kitchen

    Storage is a wardrobe she didn't want to use, a few items and a sideboard she wanted to use but after a few years wanted to sell....my property!....so told her to put it in the loft. Loft has a bolt on it...now I wish I had kept it locked. It is not a room!
  • aitchjg
    aitchjg Posts: 10 Forumite
    hazyjo wrote: »
    If you have family moving in without you being there too, they will be tenants. And that's even less advisable than letting strangers move in.


    It's my family.... will be their home so no rent. Inheritance.
  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    aitchjg wrote: »
    Exactly...my house. Owned outright as an inheritance and hoping for family to move in when old enough. Spent so much installing central heating as no heating, fully decorated and new carpets and a new bathroom and kitchen

    Storage is a wardrobe she didn't want to use, a few items and a sideboard she wanted to use but after a few years wanted to sell....my property!....so told her to put it in the loft. Loft has a bolt on it...now I wish I had kept it locked. It is not a room!

    So the family are still tenants...

    You should be paying the council tax
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