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

jc808

Nice house Badger Lady!!

Funny enough I have a very similar house in Kent (Same outside, and with a large home cinema room in the basement) that I am trying to let out room by room as a LIL

Can I ask whats the best way to get tenants? Ive tried Spareroom, Easyroommate, Gumtree, local Wilkos notice board (lol) and a couple other sites but only seem to be getting ultra-short lets (Which I wont accept as im not a dosshouse) or weirdos

PS did you put that home cinema room down there? Was it expensive to convert? Did you have it soundproofed?

Emmzi

BL has her own FB page for the house too :-)

HannahIOW

Do you have the FB link for that please?

Badger_Lady

http://www.facebook.com/groups/183349701686759/ I don't do much with it though... in fact I completely forgot about it

jc808 wrote: »

Can I ask whats the best way to get tenants? Ive tried Spareroom, Easyroommate, Gumtree, local Wilkos notice board (lol) and a couple other sites but only seem to be getting ultra-short lets (Which I wont accept as im not a dosshouse) or weirdos

PS did you put that home cinema room down there? Was it expensive to convert? Did you have it soundproofed?

I always stick the adverts up everywhere, like you said... and obviously you've seen the type of ads / pricing etc. To be honest Spareroom has always won out for me - I pay for 2 weeks of 'bold' advertising at £12-odd and it always lets within those 2 weeks. I have had successes from Gumtree as well.

I am open-minded to short lets. People are attracted by the "one month rolling contract" but often end up staying much, much longer! And even the ones who stay 6 weeks are fine - it doesn't take me much effort to find replacement lodgers. I know I would be put off having to sign a 6-month contract to live with strangers.

Based on feedback, I think what draws people in the most is a relaxed and 'homely' attitude. Clearly you can go too far and end up being taken advantage of (I'll offer myself as a case in point there!), but during the viewing a lodger is much more likely to move into a friendly home than into a house where their landlord is their master and constantly around to remind them of it.

RE the cinema room, I had grand plans for soundproofing it and making it into a recording studio with a projector in it! But I never did do that. Being underground, it is reasonably soundproof already and very easy to make pitch dark, so I just popped a projector from eBay on the ceiling and hooked it up to a soundbar

Ellie2758

oh my goodness this is TERRIBLE BL. BigGuns has got to go!

Badger_Lady

Unbelievably BigGuns has just woken up "this morning"! He and GF are upstairs - I could hear their voices last night and can again now.

Joanna suspects that he's been smoking in his bedroom because she can sometimes smell it. She also says she saw a "written warning" letter from his employer left in the bathroom :eek:

I haven't seen him yet though...

BitterAndTwisted

Crikey! If he loses his job he's going to be in a whole world of pain. Jobless and homeless if he's not careful. Perhaps that nice girlfriend of his will put him up at her place?

Badger_Lady

Ug, the music has started now... he always has listened to terrible music in his bedroom but through headphones. Apparently he now has the desire to share these toonz with the GF.

Really hope I don't get a phonecall from a client right now!

jayss

Good luck letting him know he's off

You dont want to lose your good lodger over him.

Badger_Lady

I've just had a phonecall from the office to let me know I'm picking up a new US client this afternoon and will be doing a conference call with them.

My colleague couldn't hear the music generally, but it quadruples in volume when he opens his bedroom door!

Fingers crossed he's off to work in a minute... I can deal with him when I'm not working.