Big Badger House (aka Noisy Lodger) HE'S GONE!

Badger_Lady

Well, the car just arrived!

I don't profess to know much about cars, but this is a stonking great Beamer that appears to be untouched by human hand... it's glowing on the street outside...

So I guess he's not without access to cash, just doesn't prioritise rent! (Who doesn't see living accommodation as their first priority outgoing???)

Ho-hum... apparently his Brother's coming round next Thursday to move all his stuff out, although he'll be gone by then anyway (new "penthouse" is fully furnished).

I showed Notatroll's "news" story to Lodger2 - he loved it! :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Badger_Lady wrote: »

Well, the car just arrived!

I don't profess to know much about cars, but this is a stonking great Beamer that appears to be untouched by human hand... it's glowing on the street outside...

So I guess he's not without access to cash, just doesn't prioritise rent! (Who doesn't see living accommodation as their first priority outgoing???)

Ho-hum... apparently his Brother's coming round next Thursday to move all his stuff out, although he'll be gone by then anyway (new "penthouse" is fully furnished).

I showed Notatroll's "news" story to Lodger2 - he loved it! :rotfl:

You'll be able to check out the quality of his new gaff soon enough. You'll need a forwarding address in case anything turns up for him I'm guessing.

Then you can go online and see just how deep into the ghetto he's moving.

Rabiddog_2

But it's a very close-knit street and rumours/gossip spread quickly. Up until last night when I said "oh, it's my lodger", no-one officially knew I was letting rooms out

This bit made me laff.. So what did they think were those two geezers going into your house every evening? You said to your neighbours. "aye lass .. I'm just making a bit of money on the side".. they nod knowingly.. :shocked:

esthomizzy

Updated tale of woe with my (now ex) lodger since it's topical.

On Saturday I talk to her and ask her to pay attention to the ground rules I'd previously set (she'd been ignoring various things as she fancied) warning her that is she felt they were impossible for her to adhere to she should start thinking about looking somewhere more suitable. Most notable ones were leaving her boyfriend in the flat with her keys when she'd gone to work, and having him practically there every night. Refusing to remove her huge bag of shoes from the hallway where I had to trip over them every day etc etc. Sunday night I was out with my boyfriend. When we got back to the flat I asked him if he would mind taking the estate agent sign down from the front of the house (upstairs letting a flat). It's been up for ages and I was sick of the sight of it. He agreed and found some snippers to remove the metal rings and did it. Meanwhile I've gone inside. On Monday morning the lodger and I go off to work once again she leaves the boyfriend in the flat after me having specifically asked her not to do this. My bf gets ready to go and can't find his keys. He tracks back in his head what we were last doing and comes to the very unfortunate conclusion that he must have dropped them outside the flat when doing the sign. There is no sign of them so it's the only logical thing to conclude. I come home at lunchtime to guard the flat, I didn't bring my keys home because I thought they were usless now we were going to replace them, only it turns out you need the key to get the barrel out ( which I didn't know) so he sets off to get my keys from my desk at work and then go to the lock place to get new barrels etc. I have a quick look around in case he's missed the keys somewhere obvious. Well I just happened to glance in her room and there were her keys on the chest (her boyfriend didn't need to use them to double lock the door because my bf was in when he left so he'd left them behind for her) so I ring my bf as he'd only been gone 5mins and he comes back we get the barrels out and off he goes to banhams for the new ones.

As the slimmest (say 1%) chance had glanced across my head that she might have nicked them. I didn't contact her when I told the other people in the building that the locks had been changed because I knew that since her keys were in the flat she would have to ring me to get let in anyway and I could tell her at that point and give her a new set. Everything was changed and I go back to work for the afternoon.

I'm in a meeting until gone 5.30 but when I get out I've got an email and some missed calls and an answer machine message at about 4 saying I've come home because I'm not well but I can't get in what's going on call me. Then another one saying I've gone to bf's house call me. Well as I'm sure you can see where this is going. The only way she can possibly have any keys and have tried to let herself in is if she had my bf's keys because she'd stolen them.

I waited until 7ish while I thought about it and then I texted her and said I'm in now but I'm going out later. Nothing else. She calls of course and my bf answers (I asked him to come back as I didn't want to deal with her on my own). He asks what keys she tried to let herself in with and she says her own. He says your keys are in my hand so I ask you again what keys did you try and get into the flat with? She refuses to talk to him and demands to talk to me. I say the same thing to her. She says she wants to talk in person and she'll be an hour.

When she turns up (2hours later) we talk to her on the doorstep and ask the upstairs neighbour to be a witness. I told her she's breached the agreement we have by stealing from me and I'll pay her a refund on the unused rent for this month and take the lock changing costs out of her deposit. She argued saying that she didn't steal them she found them on the step (that bit could well be true as we in the front doing the sign) but either way she had no business stealing them at that point for her own purposes when she knew perfectly well whose they were (either because it suited her to have a set herself for the day( or indefinitely if we'd just got new keys cut instead of having the locks changed) having left hers with the boyfriend. Or she could have just done it out of spite because she's annoyed with me asking her repeatedly not to leave windows open etc and then my bf causes a massive security problem himself (yes he is an idiot) or probably a combination of both. She actually used that as an excuse and tried to have a go at me about it. But if she'd have done the normal thing and brought them in and said where she'd found them she could still have had the moral highground of him being an idiot for losing them without the associated costs of this course of action.

We let her in to collect some things (while chaperoned) and she's coming in for more tonight. I'm glad she's gone, I'll be even more glad when I never have to see her again and I am so not having any more lodgers unless they come with cast iron guarantees from someone I know

poppysarah

What a nightmare! Fancy stealing keys to her own place! That's just plain horrid!

clutton_2

good riddance ... i hope you get a nicer person next time ....

Badger_Lady

Well, today's the day... I haven't seen any sign of furniture-moving yet, and the only peep all week was when he came downstairs on Wednesday, whinging "I'm really ill! I've got the flu!". I was like, "Oh, bad timing eh? Never mind!"

So - will I get the keys tonight or won't I???

hollydays

Hope he doesn't try the "I am so ill with terminal man-flu,I just have to stay in bed till I am better" routine..wouldn't surprise..he's just a big baby.

essexgal

Badger_Lady wrote: »

the only peep all week was when he came downstairs on Wednesday, whinging "I'm really ill! I've got the flu!". I was like, "Oh, bad timing eh? Never mind!"

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

so if he was looking for a sympathetic - 'oh well, stay until you feel better' he's out of luck.:D

Sounds like he should have had a few more early nights and a bit less 'living it up'.....

I love this thread..:T

essexgal

p.s. next thing you'll know the 'penthouse' won't be ready for some reason.....

jamtart6

good luck badger lady, im sure he'll be fine with you