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a little advice please

Hi guys, Right, i run a business and upstairs second floor i rent the rooms out to a few guys, what i want to know is Legally are these guys Tenants or Lodgers???

BTW the rooms that are let out dont have a seperate entrance to the second floor, to get to the second floor you must enter thru the businesses main door.

i live at this building as well, well not always maybe like once a month or two, im usually at my my GF place.

Sorry if this post sounds silly but im a total newbie to this landlord stuff :D

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  • foxwales
    foxwales Posts: 590 Forumite
    Seek legal advice; renting habitation space at a business address could be breaking the law if the dwellings are not split into two different entities. Also you could be invalidating your business insurance by having a dwellings access through your business premises.
  • rza
    rza Posts: 3 Newbie
    foxwales wrote: »
    Seek legal advice; renting habitation space at a business address could be breaking the law if the dwellings are not split into two different entities. Also you could be invalidating your business insurance by having a dwellings access through your business premises.

    :eek:

    thats messed up, ok, need to do some reasearch asap

    thanks for your input.
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