Tenant compulsive liar and fantasist

[DorothyMckenzie]

I totally agree. I thought I was a good judge of character but I can t that good obviously I didn t pick up on the nuttiness but she was very convincing . Even thought I got landlords reference I should have spoken to him. If I continue letting in my own house I will always ring the past landlord...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Because I m in a very similar but much worse situation, I have to stress you can evict this woman very easily if you comply with the notice period . She can say whatever she wants to the police it won t or prevent you from evicting her by changing the locks. She may not acknowledge that she needs...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Please read my post which is current. I have a similar situation with a tenant in my house fabricating that I broke into her room. But I m not in fortunate position you are. This woman is a lodger and they don t have rights under the protection of eviction act but you should still act fairly and...

[DorothyMckenzie]

My council which is in inner London has a noise complaint service. They say that you can report excessive noice to them if it is during their prescribed hours. I think after 11pm in the weekday and 1am sat, Friday and Sunday. Even though I have never used it ..the process is as follows although I...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Thanks for all your input. If it wasn t for the fact I ve got the extra stress of an elderly mum being diagnosed with a 3rd cancer last week just before this incident so I don t need any extra stress I wouldn t dream of offering her money. I mean it sort of says harassment works ...and it may encourage...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Does anyone have any experience of paying a tenant to surrender their tenancy and are there any pitfalls or advice you can give to me. Her rent is £695 per month. She earns £22,000. I m thinking 2 k might not be enough she has 5 months left on her contract. She’s 1 month and 5 days into it.

[DorothyMckenzie]

I agree she has several personality disorders. I would feel sorry for if she wasn t going to give me and my other tenant months of stress inducing trouble. I ve decided to offer her £2000 to leave. She has a place to go her parents house. I ll do a swap get her to sign a deed of surrender, return...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Hudson you are right I have learnt my lesson, I will reconcile myself to having to live with this woman for as long as it takes months or years and just try to minimise the impact on myself stress wise. Her last landlord some how got her to leave after a year. My feeling is she left when possession...

[DorothyMckenzie]

Thanks to everyone for replying. Belingogirl - my brother who is a solicitor but knows nothing about landlord law told me keep record and make a police complaint about harrassment ie she made a false complaint about me. I did that yesterday. I can t email her because she told me not to she also said...

[DorothyMckenzie]

I stress to every tenant do not put cooking oil down kitchen sink it causes fat bergs. Clean out yr long hair and gunk from shower waste trap. Don t allow plastic lids to go down the trap and block it. Don t put wet wipes, or allegedly flushable wipes down bog because they aren t really flushable whatever...

[DorothyMckenzie]

I have a new tenant who lives in a studio flat in my house.. I have 1 other tenant in the house who also has self contained accommodation. This tenant has been demanding eg needs to have a 15 minute shower everyday because she claims an anxiety disorder. It has to be at 6am in the morning I want to...

[DorothyMckenzie]

I think it’s fair. She did act quickly and you re getting a new boiler which as mentioned will reduce your bill. I ve currently had no water pressure for a week because Thames water can t come out because they r so busy. I haven t had a shower for 4 days. It’s just life....

[DorothyMckenzie]

Sometimes companies are just fishing. If say there are 200 other people with the same name as you there will be a few that they have the address for through online searches and may send out say 5 letters to “John smith`” at 5 different addresses. And see if they get a bite.

[DorothyMckenzie]

Yesterday I was in a similar position. I sent an email saying to my tenant, her bf had been here a week already. He can only stay 3 nights a week after that I consider that he’s living there and thus I will have to put her rent up. I found out he had stayed the whole of december. Also I said I...

[DorothyMckenzie]

The more you give them the more demands you will receive as they will perceive it as weakness in you not fairness but I m sure you know that. It seems to me they re looking for reasons to justify non payment of rent. Their “advisor” could be a mate.

[DorothyMckenzie]

I would say you are tenants primarily because the house deeds are in your father-in-laws name. If say there was a declaration of trust that said you have a 90% interest or any interest in the property then you could argue you are an owner. I m not saying if you went to court you might not get part...

[DorothyMckenzie]

The fact that the utilities are not separated does nt manner in its designation of contract. It can still be an AST . The question is does the person in the annex share any vital facilities such as bathroom or kitchen with your mum. If so it’s a lodgers agreement. If not it’s probably an AST....

[DorothyMckenzie]

I think it’s almost certainly an AST. The only other contract it might be is a non-assured tenancy agreement but I don t think this applies to annexes. If it was accommodation in a single house and your mother was resident in another flat in the house it would be a non-assured t.a. Which has not...

[DorothyMckenzie]

I worked abroad for a year a few years back. I gave my tenants that I selected a reduced rent on the basis that they organised urgent repairs/general repairs for example letting the contractor into the property. They ran the costs of these urgent repairs past me first. For non urgent repairs tenants...

[DorothyMckenzie]

My sister has a rabbit, indoors it shits everywhere, maybe they can be trained this one can t . Urine smell horrible. I think the use of emotional support animal is following USA where many buildings have no pet policy except for support animals so way to circumvent that rule in USA. My friend there...