Help – tenant’s friends moving in?
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Is it ok for friends/relatives to stay with a tenant for a month?
12:04 AM, 16th May 2023, 3 years ago
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Hello, I have a single woman tenant who works full time and has been in the property for about eight months, there have never been any issues and always paid the rent on time and in full. The property is a three-bedroom maisonette flat.
My question is: She contacted me on Friday afternoon to ask if it was OK to allow friends/relatives to stay with her for about a month as she is having health issues and needs regular visits to the hospital 20 miles away and doesn’t drive. I said I thought that would be OK to have them stay. She said four people would be staying in the property.
Now I know I should have asked at the time but it wasn’t until after I put the phone down I thought are they related or 4 separate non-related people? And if so is it legal to have them stay?
This is not an HMO property and I don’t want the property to be overcrowded. Should I say to her it’s not possible to have four non-related people stay as it’s an overcrowding issue?
Any advice from Property118 readers would be welcome.
Thank you,
Denrep
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9:07 AM, 21st May 2023, About 3 years ago
Doesn’t all this contradiction make you realise what a complicated system the PRS is. Doesnt seem like any one thing is straight forward.
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9:53 AM, 21st May 2023, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by RoseD at 21/05/2023 – 09:07RoseD, in many cases its not contradiction. Its a basic lack of knowledge. For those of us that have been in the game for many years (me) you make loads of mistakes and learn as you go along. If you only have a couple of properties many BTL landlords still treat the properties as if they are their own property which they can do with as they want, and dictate to the tenants what they must do. Sadly, this is not the case. For many years now the tenant has had the upper hand, and more so with this new legislation. Although I once had 18 properties (now have 6) I never used a letting agent, but I still try to manage the properties at arms length. Yes, I talk to the tenants, but might only see them once or twice a year. You have to treat letting as a business not your personal fifedom and dont take things personally if the tenant abuses the property or similar. This way you wont get manipulated by the tenant if it all turns to tears and you have to take them to court. You learn by your mistakes — I certainly did (and lost £1000s on the journey)
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10:30 AM, 21st May 2023, About 3 years ago
Thank you Derek. Your knowledge and experience respected. However the purpose of a forum is to give us all the opportunity to raise a point regardless of how knowledgeable we are!
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10:44 AM, 21st May 2023, About 3 years ago
Reply to the comment left by RoseD at 21/05/2023 – 10:30
Correct, I wasnt disagreeing with you, thats how I learned a lot many many years ago from a forum called Housemouse.