Overnight guests in HMO

Jenny768

My boyfriend currently stays over one night during the week and one night at the weekend in a HMO shared house. Recently my landlord has said that I cannot have overnight guests, is this true? No where in my contract does it have any rules regarding overnight guests. He only knows I have a guest staying over because he has a camera on the front door. My flat mates are all fine with it and friends with him and we are very respectful of the shared area.
Can my landlord prevent me from having a guest when he doesn't even stay very often? I would understand if it was regularly but I work evenings and so it is literally two nights a week he stays (the two nights I have off).

G_M

If the landlord lives with you, and you are lodgers, he can make whatever rules he wants.


If he does not live there and you are tenants, you can treat it as your home and therefore have guests stay over.


Ignore him.

maladict

I'm not disagreeing with the above poster. Just wanted to add: he might know your boyfriend stays because other tenants complained. It's more likely than him sitting scrutinising his cctv for hours to catch the couple of seconds where your boyfriend is on the doorstep.

smartpicture

Also, while you might consider 2 nights out of 7 "not regularly", I suspect most people would. It's actually 28% of the time, presumably without contributing to any bills. So yes, I also suspect some of your flatmates are not as happy as you believe.

Jenny768

No my landlord has admitted that he knows because of the front door camera, he gets a notification on his phone when people come in and out so it's not him scrolling through the hours of footage.
I completely understand the lack of contribution to bills etc but we go out in an evening and he literally just spends the night, even showers at work so as to not get in my flatmates way in a morning. Doesn't spend any extra energy, so I'm right in thinking that as long as my flatmates are ok with it I can ignore it?
P.s. bills are included in rent so flatmates wouldn't be bothered about that, only landlord and as I said he doesn't use any extra.

phill99

Being a HMO it may be that there are restrictions imposed on him by his Local Authority Licence.

newsgroup_monkey

OK, we're covering the person staying overnight, but is the camera thing legal?
That sounds rather creepy if I'm honest if the LL doesn't live there.

EDIT: Appears I'm right too
https://www.property118.com/cctv-installed-landlord-access-materials/

G_M

newsgroup_monkey wrote: »

OK, we're covering the person staying overnight, but is the camera thing legal?
That sounds rather creepy if I'm honest if the LL doesn't live there.

EDIT: Appears I'm right too
https://www.property118.com/cctv-installed-landlord-access-materials/

That occurred to me, but I suspect the fact it's an HMO makes a difference. The LL has access to all common areas of an HMO. And a security camera at the front door is hardly the same as the link you've provided.


If this was a tenancy for the whole property (exclusive occupation) that would be different.


Having said tat I'm not that clued up on CCTV regs!

phill99

I love barrack room lawyers.

G_M

:iloveyou:too Phill!

KatrinaWaves

You can get doorbells with built in cameras now, fairly standard for home security and useful for deliveries etc. It may be one of them rather than a sinister monitoring device...