I know everyone has a bad flatting story but I wonder if living with the house owner is a bit more stressful.
Pros - no letting agents or fees
Cons - stress about mess
discuss.
Letting fees are now illegal on new tenancies fyi
I probably wouldnāt do this unless it was dead cheap or had some locational advantage because the balance of power would be v weird.
Also deffo still get a tenancy agreement, you can find model ones online.
itās in a good area, an area Iād really like to move to, but the tenant is still a complete stranger and there are no other tenants which does put me off slightly.
balance of power was a good phrase to use
Done it before, never again. You donāt feel like itās your own home, youāre always just a guest in someone elseās house. Fuck that.
How does this work in relation to the Protection from Eviction Act? (i.e. someone in this situation would normally be classed as an excluded occupier and therefore could be evicted given āreasonableā notice - but could a landlord voluntarily create an assured shorthold tenancy?)
This is what Iām afraid of. Thanks.
Lived with a crazy live-in landlord a while back and it was awful. Constantly telling me off for random stuff. Was always worried that they were going to kick me out
Iāve lived with mine for about five years now. Itās ok. I moan but itās fine really. Only issues are that theyāre somehow messier than me and I donāt feel in a position to say TIDY UP. Also theyāre bougeee private school cultural sector type of person and thereās posters for burning man and Radiohead round the place. Would probably find them in the same pub that I go to but thatās ok.
The answer is no apparently as the law would supersede whatever what was written in the contract
I lived in a kind of grey-area situation resembling thisā¦ It got pretty horrendous fast.
What @rarity said basically
Then again in normal house-shares you can very easily end up living with a tool who thinks they own the place, and itās just as hard to deal with them
Yeah I recently did this for two years and it drove me up the wall a bit. Got an insanely good deal on rent which made it seem all nice at the time. But she kept being really neurotic about loads of things and like repainting the living room to a slightly different shade of yellow every few months. Didnāt quite realise how much stress it was causing me til I moved into a flat by myself six months ago and felt so much more relaxed.
Upside -The house becomes yours if you murder the owner
Downside- Youāve got to weekend at bernies them every time their family comes round
One definite negative is that you can see your wages directly paying for someoneās summer holidays.
My landlord really didnāt like some of their neighbours and was a bit snobby about them. Was considering sending them all invites to a pirate-themed fancy dress party round my landlords on the day I moved out
I literally almost got kicked out without notice because a porn ad pop-up flashed up on their computer
Oh my landlord complains about the pub nearby (the nearest pub, probs about half a mile away) and links to articles in the paper about any incidents that happen in or around the area in a really weird sneery and condescending way āanother day living in ____lolā. Other rich people who bought up houses in the area do it too from my experience. Probably annoyed that they failed to gentrify it. Such odd behaviour.
Itās ok for me but reading the thread, maybe I got lucky with a relatively normal person who just seems to let me get on with it.
love it when rich people willingly move to an area and then start complaining about the area (noise from pubs, venues etc)
Like, out of embarrassment that youād seen it?
Did it through college as landlord was a family friend. Was fairly ideal as I knew him already. Itās true that youāll always feel like a guest and never truly at home but that was an ok tradeoff for me at 19.
I think these lot want MORE pubs but only ones they approve of. Thereās hardly any pubs at all because itās mainly religious families around here. People eh.
itās shame, Iāll probably not go see the room, he has decent choice of music/local venues though which is the most important thing for me