Landlords viewing rights vs tenants.

Gorgeous_George

SquatNow wrote: »

If the tennants allow access in their absence they will invalidate their home contents insurance.

More rubbish.

GG

PasturesNew

Guy_Montag wrote: »

He's very sweet & gentle, would have thought you would have liked him for yourself

He can't mow the lawn.

PasturesNew

With the 24 hour notice, do they just assume you've received it and assume you agree if they've not heard to the contrary.

In the past I have worked away from home during the week and it is possible I will do this again in the future. In the rush early Monday morning I do tend to leave my place in an advanced state of old panty disarray. Things left around, discarded. Washing heaped on the floor .... never expecting anybody would ever see it.

And some people have holidays.

Would that mean that they could give you 24 hours' notice in writing and, having heard nothing, just turn up? So if your letter was delayed in the post and you're in the living room doing naked step aerobics while listening to rock music on your ear phones .... ?

clutton_2

sighs deeply ..... """ So if your letter was delayed in the post and you're in the living room doing naked step aerobics while listening to rock music on your ear phones .... ? ""

sounds a bit like a scene from A Fish Called Wanda !!!!!!!!


"" advanced state of old panty disarray."" - what a brilliant image !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just can't stop giggling on this one - reminds me of my first bedsit ........... say NO more !!!

PasturesNew

clutton wrote: »

sighs deeply ..... """ So if your letter was delayed in the post and you're in the living room doing naked step aerobics while listening to rock music on your ear phones .... ? ""

sounds a bit like a scene from A Fish Called Wanda !!!!!!!!


"" advanced state of old panty disarray."" - what a brilliant image !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just can't stop giggling on this one - reminds me of my first bedsit ........... say NO more !!!

I've just always lived alone, without visitors.

I rented a bedsit a few years back. The house was inherited from the grand/mother. The posh parents lived over the road. The son was a music teacher and he had the whole ground floor.

The 6 bedrooms arranged over the 1st and 2nd floors shared 2 bathrooms on the 1st floor. All very nice. Very nicely run. And very cheap as they did like to have "the right sort of people" living there.

But the landlords had no idea about privacy. I was up in the roof on the 2nd floor, the other flatlet had a door giving access to more roof space and the landlords would let themselves into her flatlet to move furniture in/out of the storage in the eaves.

They'd let themselves in, without notice, to empty the electricity meters. You'd never know when they were coming, or if they'd been. I got my sister a room there too; it was about £120/month when anything else in town was about £250/month (Exeter, 1997/1998) - so a bargain not to be sniffed at. And it was secure.

But the landlords were all over the place like a rash. With the mother visiting the son throughout the day and with their own large property across the road, he worked from home as an accountant and she didn't work but liked to potter about the garden and the neighbourhood supporting "causes", we called them "The omnipresent ones". You couldn't get in or out of the place without being seen - and you felt it.

I'd come home from work and as I came in I'd kick off my shoes, take off my knicks and tights and chuck those generally in the direction of the old fashioned upright chair. It didn't matter if I missed... it was only me there. Occasionally, every 3-4 days, I'd pick them all up and stick them in the laundry bag.

I came home one day. My door wide open, bloke stood there glossing it. Panties on my floor. Good job I'm not the sort of girl that thinks Ann Summers goodies are ideal ornaments for the bedside cabinet! I was mortified.

No privacy. I really value my privacy...

Sisyphus

PasturesNew wrote: »

With the 24 hour notice, do they just assume you've received it and assume you agree if they've not heard to the contrary.

In the past I have worked away from home during the week and it is possible I will do this again in the future. In the rush early Monday morning I do tend to leave my place in an advanced state of old panty disarray. Things left around, discarded. Washing heaped on the floor .... never expecting anybody would ever see it.

I would expect that a tenant could prempt that by stating in writing that under no circumstances (other than an emrgency) should the landlord or his agent let themselves in.

DGJsaver

ahh bedsits guys , lived in various ones for over ten years

I remeber one , it was owned by some horrible gangster type fat bloke who used to come and collect the rent in a bentley ! , he used to send his `friends` to come and empty the meters whenever suited , like PN said youd come home from work and the cupboard in your room would be open and the meter emptied , no noice or anything , i remeber years ago that one LL charegd all of us a percentage of the council tax , on a 5 bedroom massive house ! on top of our rent , back then i didnt know any of my rights , or more worringly HOW to know them !

Why didnt MSE exist back then:D

DGJsaver

Sisyphus wrote: »

I would expect that a tenant could prempt that by stating in writing that under no circumstances (other than an emrgency) should the landlord or his agent let themselves in.

Didnt work like that in days gone by , in my expereince anyway , there does seem to be better access to rights and laws nowadays , things are more transparent , in the past if you didnt like it th efella would kick you out and worry about any repurcussions , like , never...

clutton_2

when i was 16 i left home and one of my first bedsits was in a huge semi in teh best part of town - 8 bedroomed job - which looked superb on the outside, but, the cellar was full of sewage and rats, and the LL was a real Rachmann or Nicholas Van Whatsits (for those too young to recall Rachmann).

i remember walking in from college one afternoon and seeing a naked young woman on the phone in the hall - when i asked one of the guys from upstairs who she was, he just said "oh she's one of the prossies from flat 2" "Whats a prossie ?"

very naive !!!!!