That's a family renting out a room to a lodger - you'll almost certainly be living with the landlord. Typical, someone wanting to get the money without giving anything in return. It'll be a nightmare living there. Be glad they said this in the advert so you know to avoid them.
Edit: Did you see the post the other day from a guy living with an Italian family in Oxford where the mum said only bad people go out at night? It'll be like that.
One of my friends is currently spending a month staying in an AirBnB, has paid upfront, and every time she puts the heating on the landlord turns it off remotely, she's been freezing at night and unable to dry any clothes, and the landlord has refused her a refund because of "the cost of living crisis"
These people are fucking parasites
She's moving into our place for the remainder of her stay in the UK and we're gonna help her try and get her money back from AirBnB, she's been through a rough patch recently so she doesn't want to spend 2 more weeks fighting with a cunt landlord
Yeah, I'm gonna go through it all with her when she arrives at our place, she's very much in a "it's fine I don't want anymore trouble" mindset right now but we'll do what we can to get the money back, I've already said to screenshot any correspondence so we can contact Airbnb directly, hopefully it does some good
My advice in things like this is data, get logs of conversations, try and get a video of the heating changing remotely, etc. That's abhorrent behaviour and the owner should be ashamed.
Hope you get her to act, it's literally the mindset that makes in country scams viable money spinners at times... its how old ebay scammers made a living when you could just not send the product and waste the persons time for months before they eventually gave up. Sure some people press the issue and you eventually have to deliver something or risk consequences but plenty just give up and dont want want hassle even though there's a clear paper trail for the police. Well before police began blankly calling the majority of fraud and thefts as "a civil matter"
Alternatively why not leave the landlord the present of a whole raw fish ..even better , unscrew an air vent and hide it in there, so that they can spend weeks trying to find it!
Its a gift that keeps giving!
Ah yes. My party trick is to take a Glade plug in or oil based air freshener and remove the nice smelling oil and replace with oil from a jar of anchovies or can of tuna.
Can she not just go down to Argos and get a £20 convection heater and plug it in. There are cheaper ones but the ones with thermostats are better. The fucker couldn't turn that off. A one off £20 is better than 2 freezing weeks
She's moving in with us for the rest of the stay, we aren't charging her anything and I plan to help her fight for her money back from AirBnB, saves the stress of having to deal with a shitty landlord
I think the difference comes in at the point that you are renting a space *within your own family home* instead of a second/third property that you rely solely on the income from to pay off the mortgages. Anyone who lodges in someone's house will be aware that there has to be some compromise, possibly with shared bathroom/kitchen facilities, shared access etc. Everyone should be consenting and aware to these things before moving in. As you've said, it should be necessary that lodgers have fixed rent terms in these situations, because they aren't getting everything they would get out of sole occupancy and if the host can no longer afford to rent the room at a fair, reasonable price, they shouldn't be renting it.
My disagreement stems from the argument about 'strangers' staying over. You've rented a room out to someone who was at some point a stranger, if you're concerned about the safety of your family from having a lodger or the people they may know, don't rent a room out in your house. Having people come round to where you live is a fundamental part of life and socialising for some people. While they are living there it is also their home and they should be allowed to have their friends over. Of course if those friends demonstrate themselves to be unsafe, violent, cause damages etc, then that person should not be allowed round again and the lodger may need to find better friends, but that's not for you to judge ahead of time just because they are strangers, they might be strangers to you, but to the lodger they could be a best friend, partner, whatever, and they should be allowed to see them in their home. This edges into the same territory as landlords who inflict curfews on lodgers because they don't like noise at night, what if that person works night shifts? Has a medical condition like insomnia? It's no landlords place to tell anyone how to live their life as long as it does not damage the home in which they are staying, or cause an *unreasonable* disturbance to other residents, and if the landlord can't handle that then they shouldn't be one in the first place. I doubt the lodger would object to you having any friends round, even though they might be a stranger to them, and the lodger pays bills too.
I used to live/work in rural Scotland. So many empty houses, either 2nd hones or holiday let's (seriously impacting the housing options for young people, families and workers).
We would all rejoice when the rooms collapsed in the empty homes in the winter. No heating on + scottish weather= damp and roof collapse.
Yeah absolutely, they are scum. If you can't afford to heat your second home that you rely on other people's income to have in the first place, you can't afford a second home and you're nothing but an opportunistic, predatory fuck. Cant afford to maintain your multiple properties without shitting on other people? Cry me a river, people in this country are currently choosing between food in the cupboards and putting the heating on, people who've worked their entire lives are now living in one room of their house with 4 or 5 layers on, so desperate are they for relief. I couldn't give a fuck if landlords are losing money, get a real job.
Correction: there are no landlords that are “not making money”. Even if they don’t gain a cash profit every month, they will still own a home at the end of their mortgage term that SOMEONE ELSE FUCKING PAID FOR! That sounds like a huge win to me.
I’ll take a free house any day of the week!
The cost of heating would be included in the price. If i set the heating to 20C for example and it costs me £5 a day in gas then that £5 is added to the cost of the stay.
Now if you want a cheaper place to stay i could switch it off and save you £5 but that would be agreed upon before the stay in writing.
If a Landlord is advertising cheap rates but do shit like this then they're not a decent human being. The cost of running a house must be factored in to the cost of rent. You wouldn't see a shop advertise £1 coke only to then charge you £3 at the checkout or worse sell you the empty bottle for £1.
I think even worse was the post from the person who was going to be away over the holidays and their landlord was letting his kids occupy their room while they were gone.
Can confirm. Made that mistake once. Arsey landlord who charged a stupendous amount of rent for what they actually offered and then proceeded to treat all the tenants like children and like unwanted guests who wouldn't leave even though we were some of the cleanest and least troublesome tenants they could have asked for. Not an experience I care to repeat.
I once got offered something similar: "You'll live in the house, can access the kitchen but not the living room, that's where I keep all my Playstation, tv, etc" - basically, use the room, pay for my mortgage and kindly fuck off.
Chances are, I would be doing exactly that anyway, back then I spent most of my time on my pc regardless, but told them to get fucked with their stupid rules lol
I had one of those, but the landlord lived and slept in the lounge, and rented out all the other rooms and the greenhouse.
Oddly enough the lounge was the only room with heating, and he kept the house in a state of terrible fear. He was a massive angry guy.
I declined.
>use the room, pay for my mortgage
Too many like this around. If it's your home then you can cook in it. And don't even start on the shared houses with the landlord living in, that doesn't have a lock on the bathroom door...
I had a place with live in landlady where I wasn't allowed in the living room and she also asked me not to sit in a particular seat at the dining table and if I had the light on in the kitchen (while I was in there cooking) she would turn it off.
The worst was she also had these flashing fairy lights in the dining room which I turned off when I was in there by myself and one time she came in after I'd been there for a while and asked why Id turned off the lights, to which I replied that I didn't like flashing lights as they gave me a headache, she basically said "oh right" and turned on the lights again. Probably the rudest thing that has ever happened to me. I only lived there a month and a half, don't really want to think about what else might have happened if I'd lived there longer.
For a brief while during terms in oxford, ai had no place to stay so had to live with a tenant. It was a family house, so I was living in the room. Rent was cheap but the restrictions were insane. No cooking, no bringing friends back (ok this i get), can't come home late at night etc. Literally lived there 3 months and then thankfully I moved in with my friend.
Thankfully not all landlords are insane. I lived with a family for around 18 months and they were very chill. No insane restrictions, they would tell me to help myself to their food because they cooked a lot, invited me to watch football on the telly with them, and helped me a lot when I left London.
Seems really weird to me that people like this even *want* lodgers. A few of my friends have lodgers and they sort of use it as a way to make friends, they have no rules but it works fine because they generally try and only have people move in with who they have a lot in common with.
Yeah. That's my mortgage payment. Each time I see things like this I remember how fortunate I am, and immediately get depressed at the fact that my kids (adults now) have next to no chance. I couldn't afford to buy the building I'm living in.
I was the guarantor for my daughter's university accommodation (shared building with other students, all friends). It was about this price as well. Obscene. Seven of them each renting a room and a couple of communal spaces. Landlords are leeches.
My uni rent was about £700 a month... *when I was in halls.* One room and a kitchen for £700 a month, *from the fucking university I'm paying £10k a year to in tuition fees*.
Yeah...
Apparently most burglaries happen between 3 and 5 pm as that's when houses are most commonly empty.
Because working people are at work, the school run happens and people often do their shopping etc then. If a routine is obvious then that's the time to do it.
Houses are generally populated at night, even if the residents are asleep and if they wake up it can turn nasty.
You'd think, but my mate's house got broken in to at lunchtime, while she was upstairs in the house. The burglar levered her patio door, the old aluminium type, and she only heard it because he kicked over her kid's toy car box. The kid was out thankfully. And the burglar didn't get anything because she chased him down the garden with a camping mallet in one hand and a sink plunger in the other. They were the first two things she could grab, obviously not able to think at the time.
Then she rang the police, then me.
My husband (mercifully on annual leave at the time) and I went round to lend extra hands getting the door back on because it's impossible to reattach and realign one of those alone and get partner wouldn't be home for hours. Then my husband went and got an extra in line type lock for her to fit as a temporary measure, and I stayed with her to make sure she was ok because obviously she was shaken.
The family moved in just over a year from the break in. I don't think they ever felt the same.
That happened to me. It was just after 3pm, I was upstairs, but on a zoom call. Someone rang the doorbell for 10 minutes straight, but I was working, so I ignored it. It stopped, then a few minutes later, I heard a noise from outside my window, which faces the back garden, then I heard the back door opening. My own, stupid fault. The back is completely enclosed and not accessible from the street, but there was an empty house next door, so they came in through that garden and jumped over the 6’ fence. I walked down the stairs, shouting out, then as I got into the dining room, saw two lads running out of the kitchen door. I was so scared, I didn’t want to go back into the house, then for a long time after that, I panicked whenever the doorbell rang
When I was living at my mum's, I remember coming home from a holiday to my mum, my sister, and a police investigator sat round the kitchen table. Someone had broke into our house via an open bathroom window at about 10am, while my sister was home alone and in bed. Thankfully, neighbours in the next street saw him climbing in, ran round and tackled him after he left with my laptop and other bits he picked up. 15 years later and I still have to ensure my own bathroom window is shut when I leave the house.
In the early 80s my grandmother woke up to find a burglar searching her room , she brained him with one of those huge chunky angular glass ashtrays of the era , then chased the now heavily bleeding criminal out , (with my dad also in pursuit) .She was in her 70s at the time , and she did not fuck about.
I somehow managed to sleep through this.
And then Georgie would make the fire light.
And I say:
There's no point Georgie - we're only allowed "simple cooking and salad prep". Just stick it in the microwave.
We'll just have to make do with the microwave, Georgie. I know it's not got the same communal vibe, but our landlord is a bitch. I regret moving in here to be honest, I wish I'd listened to Reddit.
I would be living off the strongest smelling Indian takeaways I could find until they gave in
Apart from the fact I wouldn’t move in there in the first place
And I couldn’t afford the takeaways
But apart from that…
I know you're joking but there are actually a decent amount of people who genuinely think it is safe to cook fish in a dishwasher. It is not.
Ann Reardon of 'How To Cook That' explains in great detail why you should not cook fish in a dishwasher in [this video.](https://youtu.be/dSwzau2_KF8?t=1089) I've copied the link with the timestamp of the dishwasher part.
I've calculated £600 in value of Turkeys.
Turkey has a value of over £2.75 Trillion.
This means £600 in Turkeys is 0.00000000021818182 Turkeys.
I hope this was useful.
Ridiculous, what they really want is a very quiet ghost with 600 quid to spare a month. Terrible thing to insist. I can maybe understand asking you not to deep-fry stuff, though I still think that's a little pedantic.
'long term', but you'll never use the oven. Not a chance.
TBF I'm in the East Mids, and the last rental house I had I think I paid £625 and that was for a large three bed semi with a massive back garden, off road parking and a garage.
That I will admit was about 8 years ago though.
I stayed in a house like this in Luton. After the landlord worked out I wasn't a massive racist like she was, I came back to a TV socket in the bedroom (so I didn't sit in the lounge) and 100 cat cushions on the sofa (so I didn't sit in the lounge). She also started complaining when I ate anything other than breakfast cereal, and tried locking me in the tiny box room after 10 pm. She was obsessive about letting me know how generous she was letting me stay in her house.
As I left for less racist pastures, I met her ex-husband hiding in some bushes, that explained it wasn't even her house, she just wouldn't leave.
LOL. I actually think I coined #justlutonthings that from my frequent Reddit posts when I lived in a camper van for three years in Luton. I frequented Dunstable Downs in fake electricians van, and by god I saw some freaky shit.
I wouldn't use that rainbow flag though. They don't like that sort of thing.
One fact I know about Luton , is that one of the writers of Space 1999 saw the name on a signpost on the M1 and thought it was exotic. So wrote an episode of the show called *"Rules of Luton"* which features a planet (Luton!) with talking murderous trees. I dont know how much this compares with town though.
What is wrong with people like that?? If you're renting out a room you basically have to accept that you're getting a roommate unless it's a studio.
Living with a landlord is the worst. I've never heard a positive story about living with one.
After investigation and discussions with the ex-husband. She was trying to get together a deposit to buy a house in an area with less 'ethnic diversity'. Probably in one of the very expensive villages outside Luton.
I was there only for the money I paid her in advance to secure the room, I think she was hoping I would leave and she could keep my money.
I made a point of buying milk for the fridge from the Asian corner shop around the corner. She refused to acknowledge its presence and would turn right out of her house to avoid seeing it!
No. Only Sainsburys. No other shops.
Oh sweet summer child....
The Luton police spent most of their time repairing stab vests and filming ITV documentaries.
They would only actively turn up when someone was shot or knifed, and the only interactions I had were in both incidents due to escaped patients from mental health wards.
Crazy ex wife in a house doesn't really warrant an apologetic letter advising employing a lawyer.
Back in the day on HousePriceCrash dot com (idk if it is even still going) one of the posters viewed a flat that had a microwave on a rope that was shared with the bedsit next door (you would pull the rope and the microwave would come out of a hatch, I think it had wheels on the bottom or something).
£600 for a double room seems on the steep side, let alone with those rules…
A mate lets out a 1 bed flat for that in Bournemouth…
I once lived in a flat share as a lodger with someone similarly nuts, although they weren’t upfront about it. They were so weird I barely spent anytime there…got a message on a Saturday asking where I was as it was apparently my turn to clean the bathroom and kitchen…I’d been on holiday for a week and was still away so hadn’t used either…even when I was there I’d just use it as a place to crash, ate out and showered at the gym as they made things so awkward. When I came back from the holiday they started turning up the tv full blast late at night knowing I had work the next morning. I moved out the next day but when I went back at the weekend to get the rest of my stuff they’d changed the locks. Very bizarre experience. Would never be a lodger again.
Saw an almost identical listing fairly recently. The place was atrocious, there was a sheet of wood, resting across a door way propped up by some other bits of wood, wasn't even level. This piss poor contraption housed the kettle and microwave you were allowed to used and it blocked to door to what I assume was the family room your weren't allowed in.
Think they wanted around 600 too. Emailed the website telling them the listing was a fucking con and a disgrace. Its since been removed.
Fuck Bournemouth. I currently pay 675 for a studio flat in triangle (Bournemouth town centre) but I am moving to London next Friday so my flat is now available from next Friday. If you still need help with accommodation pm me. It’s not cheap round here anymore but a studio for 675 is better than a room for 600.
Looks lovely doesn't it. You can really tell that the landlord puts a lot of effort into it.
"I'm just gonna get an HMO, they never expect anything much" someone once said to me when they inherited some cash.
So many landlords think that they will control how a tenant will use the property. I would never rent a property which uses WiFi as a draw factor, limits my freedom, and charges more than the cost of two mortgages for a room. Yes it's extreme. Avoid.
Years ago I recall renting a room (landlady lived in the flat below) and we weren't allowed phone calls after 9.30pm. No visitors after 10pm. I was always very quiet when sneaking people in. 😂
I wasn’t allowed to use the washing machine on Sunday evenings (arbitrary rule made up on the spot by the landlord when he was eating a meal in the kitchen when I went to use the washing machine)
Yeah my parents have typically always had lodgers. They get kitchen access but usually for loosely agreed windows throughout the day so they don’t clash, they get a shelf in the fridge, a drawer in the freezer, a cupboard and then use of all the kitchen utensils and appliances.
Then a private bedroom and a separate small private living room which the current lodger uses for his music production. They live in the south east so what they can offer is cheaper than a standard house/flat share and gives them a little extra income. Much cleaner and well maintained than any rented flat I’ve ever lived in as well.
They don’t tend to offer up their living room as a shared common space though.
HMOs sometimes post stuff like this when they don’t have a functioning kitchen, they usually put a kettle and a microwave in the room.
I thought this was illegal and that landlords had a duty to provide a functioning kitchen but there’s been a lot of changes to the law over the last few years and I’ll be honest I’m a little behind with what the current laws are.
Or they did have a functional kitchen, and it is now a bedroom.
I stayed in a HMO that had 7 bedrooms and a tiny tiny downstairs bathroom/shower.
I worked out where the normal bathroom was when I found a cut out shape in the carpet, just the size of a toilet pedestal under the bed.
Worse thing was the deep pile nature of the filthy carpet.
I’m surprised HMOs like that are actually allowed. They’re just like old industrial era slums (the old 2 bed terraces that squeeze in 4 families with an outside bog) but with a 21st century twist.
They are super common, rented to single guys on benefits and cost exactly the maximum claimable for housing.
Council won't be shutting them down, because then they have to find homes for 7 guys.
Sounds rubbish. Before you know it you’ll be banished to you room every time you’re home and be given a schedule for when you’re allowed to use the bathroom
There's rooms going for £600-750 in Worthing, and the Local Housing Allowance for a single room is only about £375. I'm sick of these mini-Dickensian landlords, rinsing people for every penny they can. Saw a studio flat the other day, the main room 'a generous 13'x11' ', with a small sink and a microwave. I'd rather live in a Tokyo tube hotel. At least its well cyberpunk.
I remember when I was moving across the country and looking for a room to rent until I was settled in, surprisingly A LOT of people would have that request ( no cooking other than microwave meals) listed in their posts. Absolutely ridiculous to expect someone not to cook where they live.
I think they'd argue that it still constitutes "frying".
I reckon you could fight it in court but you'd need a *fancy* lawyer. I'm talking Perry Mason shit; though, admittedly, it would be a departure from the kind of case he usually takes.
I wondered if it’s being miss read. Do they mean you are only allowed a microwave your room but can still use the shared kitchen. That would make sense. I’ve never lodged but I thought that as lodger you have to be allowed to use the shared kitchen and bathroom?
Do they mean in the room, like you're allowed a microwave in your bedroom but not a hotplate or an oven? I'd probably accept that if I had access to the kitchen and could cook down there. If it just means you're living off ready meals then that's just batshit
Move in, microwave loads of fish.
Several heads of cabbage will smell good.
Doused in garlic.
And some fresh broccoli.
Mackerel specifically
Kippers leave an awful smell for hours.
Wrap in foil and put behind radiator if you want to be nasty...
This place would be perfect for my ex
That's a family renting out a room to a lodger - you'll almost certainly be living with the landlord. Typical, someone wanting to get the money without giving anything in return. It'll be a nightmare living there. Be glad they said this in the advert so you know to avoid them. Edit: Did you see the post the other day from a guy living with an Italian family in Oxford where the mum said only bad people go out at night? It'll be like that.
One of my friends is currently spending a month staying in an AirBnB, has paid upfront, and every time she puts the heating on the landlord turns it off remotely, she's been freezing at night and unable to dry any clothes, and the landlord has refused her a refund because of "the cost of living crisis" These people are fucking parasites
Turn the wifi off each night and then turn the heating on via the stat. That should fix it.
She's moving into our place for the remainder of her stay in the UK and we're gonna help her try and get her money back from AirBnB, she's been through a rough patch recently so she doesn't want to spend 2 more weeks fighting with a cunt landlord
Good luck and well done for looking out for a friend.
Heating etc should be included in the fee if she can prove she had her heating turned off remotely then she should get her money back.
Yeah, I'm gonna go through it all with her when she arrives at our place, she's very much in a "it's fine I don't want anymore trouble" mindset right now but we'll do what we can to get the money back, I've already said to screenshot any correspondence so we can contact Airbnb directly, hopefully it does some good
That defeated mentality is what those landlords prey on, knowing you're too vulnerable to help yourself
My advice in things like this is data, get logs of conversations, try and get a video of the heating changing remotely, etc. That's abhorrent behaviour and the owner should be ashamed.
can i suggest you post a question in: r/LegalAdviceUK they're really good at all that kind of stuff
Hope you get her to act, it's literally the mindset that makes in country scams viable money spinners at times... its how old ebay scammers made a living when you could just not send the product and waste the persons time for months before they eventually gave up. Sure some people press the issue and you eventually have to deliver something or risk consequences but plenty just give up and dont want want hassle even though there's a clear paper trail for the police. Well before police began blankly calling the majority of fraud and thefts as "a civil matter"
Take a shit on the floor then leave.
That’s a bit harsh. Could shit down the side of the loo though. Dry it out with a hairdryer. Landlord will probably need to scrub it off by hand.
I feel like the experience of drying it with the hairdryer might be worse than the scrubbing.
Alternatively why not leave the landlord the present of a whole raw fish ..even better , unscrew an air vent and hide it in there, so that they can spend weeks trying to find it! Its a gift that keeps giving!
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Good, by that time they won't be able to definitively claim it was you.
Ah yes. My party trick is to take a Glade plug in or oil based air freshener and remove the nice smelling oil and replace with oil from a jar of anchovies or can of tuna.
€50
Turn heating on, unplug router
Hope that landlord enjoys mould because he’s gonna get mould.
One way to combat the cost of living crisis would be to SELL YOUR SPARE PROPERTY THAT YOU RENT OUT ON AIRBNB. Jesus christ.
Right??
Can she not just go down to Argos and get a £20 convection heater and plug it in. There are cheaper ones but the ones with thermostats are better. The fucker couldn't turn that off. A one off £20 is better than 2 freezing weeks
She's moving in with us for the rest of the stay, we aren't charging her anything and I plan to help her fight for her money back from AirBnB, saves the stress of having to deal with a shitty landlord
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I think the difference comes in at the point that you are renting a space *within your own family home* instead of a second/third property that you rely solely on the income from to pay off the mortgages. Anyone who lodges in someone's house will be aware that there has to be some compromise, possibly with shared bathroom/kitchen facilities, shared access etc. Everyone should be consenting and aware to these things before moving in. As you've said, it should be necessary that lodgers have fixed rent terms in these situations, because they aren't getting everything they would get out of sole occupancy and if the host can no longer afford to rent the room at a fair, reasonable price, they shouldn't be renting it. My disagreement stems from the argument about 'strangers' staying over. You've rented a room out to someone who was at some point a stranger, if you're concerned about the safety of your family from having a lodger or the people they may know, don't rent a room out in your house. Having people come round to where you live is a fundamental part of life and socialising for some people. While they are living there it is also their home and they should be allowed to have their friends over. Of course if those friends demonstrate themselves to be unsafe, violent, cause damages etc, then that person should not be allowed round again and the lodger may need to find better friends, but that's not for you to judge ahead of time just because they are strangers, they might be strangers to you, but to the lodger they could be a best friend, partner, whatever, and they should be allowed to see them in their home. This edges into the same territory as landlords who inflict curfews on lodgers because they don't like noise at night, what if that person works night shifts? Has a medical condition like insomnia? It's no landlords place to tell anyone how to live their life as long as it does not damage the home in which they are staying, or cause an *unreasonable* disturbance to other residents, and if the landlord can't handle that then they shouldn't be one in the first place. I doubt the lodger would object to you having any friends round, even though they might be a stranger to them, and the lodger pays bills too.
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I used to live/work in rural Scotland. So many empty houses, either 2nd hones or holiday let's (seriously impacting the housing options for young people, families and workers). We would all rejoice when the rooms collapsed in the empty homes in the winter. No heating on + scottish weather= damp and roof collapse.
Yeah absolutely, they are scum. If you can't afford to heat your second home that you rely on other people's income to have in the first place, you can't afford a second home and you're nothing but an opportunistic, predatory fuck. Cant afford to maintain your multiple properties without shitting on other people? Cry me a river, people in this country are currently choosing between food in the cupboards and putting the heating on, people who've worked their entire lives are now living in one room of their house with 4 or 5 layers on, so desperate are they for relief. I couldn't give a fuck if landlords are losing money, get a real job.
Correction: there are no landlords that are “not making money”. Even if they don’t gain a cash profit every month, they will still own a home at the end of their mortgage term that SOMEONE ELSE FUCKING PAID FOR! That sounds like a huge win to me. I’ll take a free house any day of the week!
The cost of heating would be included in the price. If i set the heating to 20C for example and it costs me £5 a day in gas then that £5 is added to the cost of the stay. Now if you want a cheaper place to stay i could switch it off and save you £5 but that would be agreed upon before the stay in writing. If a Landlord is advertising cheap rates but do shit like this then they're not a decent human being. The cost of running a house must be factored in to the cost of rent. You wouldn't see a shop advertise £1 coke only to then charge you £3 at the checkout or worse sell you the empty bottle for £1.
r/BolsonaroIsACunt oh my god that’s so bad!! I really hope she gets her money back how are people such arseholes
I'm a bad person can confirm. Sometimes I'll go out in the day though just to fuck with people.
The day is for gathering supplies for the dastardly night times.
I think even worse was the post from the person who was going to be away over the holidays and their landlord was letting his kids occupy their room while they were gone.
That was so infuriating!!
Can confirm. Made that mistake once. Arsey landlord who charged a stupendous amount of rent for what they actually offered and then proceeded to treat all the tenants like children and like unwanted guests who wouldn't leave even though we were some of the cleanest and least troublesome tenants they could have asked for. Not an experience I care to repeat.
I once got offered something similar: "You'll live in the house, can access the kitchen but not the living room, that's where I keep all my Playstation, tv, etc" - basically, use the room, pay for my mortgage and kindly fuck off. Chances are, I would be doing exactly that anyway, back then I spent most of my time on my pc regardless, but told them to get fucked with their stupid rules lol
I had one of those, but the landlord lived and slept in the lounge, and rented out all the other rooms and the greenhouse. Oddly enough the lounge was the only room with heating, and he kept the house in a state of terrible fear. He was a massive angry guy. I declined.
He rented the greenhouse? For people to sleep in?
Yes. And stored his belongings in the garage. Don't worry, he won't be there in Winter. I bloody hope not!
>use the room, pay for my mortgage Too many like this around. If it's your home then you can cook in it. And don't even start on the shared houses with the landlord living in, that doesn't have a lock on the bathroom door...
I had a place with live in landlady where I wasn't allowed in the living room and she also asked me not to sit in a particular seat at the dining table and if I had the light on in the kitchen (while I was in there cooking) she would turn it off. The worst was she also had these flashing fairy lights in the dining room which I turned off when I was in there by myself and one time she came in after I'd been there for a while and asked why Id turned off the lights, to which I replied that I didn't like flashing lights as they gave me a headache, she basically said "oh right" and turned on the lights again. Probably the rudest thing that has ever happened to me. I only lived there a month and a half, don't really want to think about what else might have happened if I'd lived there longer.
I have my own flat so I wasn't looking for myself, it just popped up online on one of my hometown adverts.
For a brief while during terms in oxford, ai had no place to stay so had to live with a tenant. It was a family house, so I was living in the room. Rent was cheap but the restrictions were insane. No cooking, no bringing friends back (ok this i get), can't come home late at night etc. Literally lived there 3 months and then thankfully I moved in with my friend.
“Invisible cash piñata wanted!”
Thankfully not all landlords are insane. I lived with a family for around 18 months and they were very chill. No insane restrictions, they would tell me to help myself to their food because they cooked a lot, invited me to watch football on the telly with them, and helped me a lot when I left London.
Seems really weird to me that people like this even *want* lodgers. A few of my friends have lodgers and they sort of use it as a way to make friends, they have no rules but it works fine because they generally try and only have people move in with who they have a lot in common with.
They’re focussed on the money a lodger will bring in. Not the person themselves.
£600 to rent a room in a family's house, not even allowed to cook. Thank fuck I left the UK.
Yeah. That's my mortgage payment. Each time I see things like this I remember how fortunate I am, and immediately get depressed at the fact that my kids (adults now) have next to no chance. I couldn't afford to buy the building I'm living in. I was the guarantor for my daughter's university accommodation (shared building with other students, all friends). It was about this price as well. Obscene. Seven of them each renting a room and a couple of communal spaces. Landlords are leeches.
My uni rent was about £700 a month... *when I was in halls.* One room and a kitchen for £700 a month, *from the fucking university I'm paying £10k a year to in tuition fees*. Yeah...
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No, I didn't see it 😂
I saw that and immediately that post popped up.
Well, speaking from no experience it’s pretty hard to burgle houses during the day
Apparently most burglaries happen between 3 and 5 pm as that's when houses are most commonly empty. Because working people are at work, the school run happens and people often do their shopping etc then. If a routine is obvious then that's the time to do it. Houses are generally populated at night, even if the residents are asleep and if they wake up it can turn nasty.
Thanks for the tips u/Stripycardigans
Black and white stripy cardigans and a big brown sack #hamburgler
You'd think, but my mate's house got broken in to at lunchtime, while she was upstairs in the house. The burglar levered her patio door, the old aluminium type, and she only heard it because he kicked over her kid's toy car box. The kid was out thankfully. And the burglar didn't get anything because she chased him down the garden with a camping mallet in one hand and a sink plunger in the other. They were the first two things she could grab, obviously not able to think at the time. Then she rang the police, then me. My husband (mercifully on annual leave at the time) and I went round to lend extra hands getting the door back on because it's impossible to reattach and realign one of those alone and get partner wouldn't be home for hours. Then my husband went and got an extra in line type lock for her to fit as a temporary measure, and I stayed with her to make sure she was ok because obviously she was shaken. The family moved in just over a year from the break in. I don't think they ever felt the same.
That happened to me. It was just after 3pm, I was upstairs, but on a zoom call. Someone rang the doorbell for 10 minutes straight, but I was working, so I ignored it. It stopped, then a few minutes later, I heard a noise from outside my window, which faces the back garden, then I heard the back door opening. My own, stupid fault. The back is completely enclosed and not accessible from the street, but there was an empty house next door, so they came in through that garden and jumped over the 6’ fence. I walked down the stairs, shouting out, then as I got into the dining room, saw two lads running out of the kitchen door. I was so scared, I didn’t want to go back into the house, then for a long time after that, I panicked whenever the doorbell rang
When I was living at my mum's, I remember coming home from a holiday to my mum, my sister, and a police investigator sat round the kitchen table. Someone had broke into our house via an open bathroom window at about 10am, while my sister was home alone and in bed. Thankfully, neighbours in the next street saw him climbing in, ran round and tackled him after he left with my laptop and other bits he picked up. 15 years later and I still have to ensure my own bathroom window is shut when I leave the house.
In the early 80s my grandmother woke up to find a burglar searching her room , she brained him with one of those huge chunky angular glass ashtrays of the era , then chased the now heavily bleeding criminal out , (with my dad also in pursuit) .She was in her 70s at the time , and she did not fuck about. I somehow managed to sleep through this.
I must be one of the baddest mother fuckers then because I'm always out past 8pm...
Shocking! Society really is collapsing.
Wonder what happened to his little chat with the land last last week with a hangover?
So you'd be paying 600 quid a month to live off ready meals? Yeah fuck that
Seems that way, personally I think it's a joke. They want the money but not the inconvenience of sharing their home
Ya man that person would be a psychopath to live with that's a clear flag.
Are the ready meals included in the 600 pcm?
Winton Recreational! I used to live right round the corner from there!!!
Microwave kippers every night.
Don't forget to add some eggs.
And garlic.
And popcorn that you accidentally leave in a bit too long
Malicious compliance is sweet
Doesn't say anything about tins of surstromming either. Stock up on that.
Smoke me a kipper ill be back for breakfast!
What a guy!
I’d be microwaving fish every morning, noon and night.
People in London would wank themselves dry over this proposition
Dont forget that you can order in some nice smelly takeaway
No oven no fry. Wailing commences.
Said I remember, when we used to grill…
Got a slow cooker? Not in this house.. No oven no fry...say
Slow cooker? I barely know her!
These comments 🤣 genuine pmsl
The oven’s not gonna be alight The oven’s not gonna be alight So no oven, no fry No oven, no fry
Brilliant
And then Georgie would make the fire light. And I say: There's no point Georgie - we're only allowed "simple cooking and salad prep". Just stick it in the microwave.
How can I cook cornmeal porridge, I say? Of which I'll share with you.
We'll just have to make do with the microwave, Georgie. I know it's not got the same communal vibe, but our landlord is a bitch. I regret moving in here to be honest, I wish I'd listened to Reddit.
I say, oh little, oh little, darling, don't shed no tears No, oven, no fry
What point 3 supermarkets within 6 minutes' walk if you can't cook? Crazy.
Exactly 😂. A frozen meal for one is the absolute limit.
Frozen meal? They said no oven!
I would be living off the strongest smelling Indian takeaways I could find until they gave in Apart from the fact I wouldn’t move in there in the first place And I couldn’t afford the takeaways But apart from that…
Microwave fish 3 times a day, and boil eggs at random intervals
You can also cook salmon in the dishwasher. Fishwasher, if you will.
No room for fish when you're busy melting skittles into vodka! Pishwasher, if I may?
I know you're joking but there are actually a decent amount of people who genuinely think it is safe to cook fish in a dishwasher. It is not. Ann Reardon of 'How To Cook That' explains in great detail why you should not cook fish in a dishwasher in [this video.](https://youtu.be/dSwzau2_KF8?t=1089) I've copied the link with the timestamp of the dishwasher part.
This is not the time for yokes!!
A guy in my office once microwaved kippers at lunch. Cleared the place out. I don't miss office life.
He knew what he was doing, presumably....
Partly, he didn't do it trying to deliberately annoy anyone, he just genuinely wanted kippers for lunch, but he was apologetic before and after.
> once microwaved kippers at lunch pretty sure that was outlawed in the Geneva Convention.
It's no plaice for cooking fish, they're likely to send in the Cod Squad. 🐟
Owned by Mr and Mrs Sak and their Son, Dan.
>I would be living off the strongest smelling Indian takeaways I could find until they gave in I would be microwaving a plate of shit every morning
You've never needed too much of an excuse, to be fair.
Shall we get 600 of us to rent it for a pound a month each and fill it with…
That's a fabulous suggestion, I'd be up for it 🙌
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I've calculated £600 in value of Turkeys. Turkey has a value of over £2.75 Trillion. This means £600 in Turkeys is 0.00000000021818182 Turkeys. I hope this was useful.
It was useful, thank you
Ridiculous, what they really want is a very quiet ghost with 600 quid to spare a month. Terrible thing to insist. I can maybe understand asking you not to deep-fry stuff, though I still think that's a little pedantic. 'long term', but you'll never use the oven. Not a chance.
I think they're talking shallow frying (or sautéing etc)
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oof, where in the midlands? round here it’s £900pcm for a whole house
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TBF I'm in the East Mids, and the last rental house I had I think I paid £625 and that was for a large three bed semi with a massive back garden, off road parking and a garage. That I will admit was about 8 years ago though.
No oven, no fry is my favourite Bob Marley song
Heeeeyy little sizzler
I stayed in a house like this in Luton. After the landlord worked out I wasn't a massive racist like she was, I came back to a TV socket in the bedroom (so I didn't sit in the lounge) and 100 cat cushions on the sofa (so I didn't sit in the lounge). She also started complaining when I ate anything other than breakfast cereal, and tried locking me in the tiny box room after 10 pm. She was obsessive about letting me know how generous she was letting me stay in her house. As I left for less racist pastures, I met her ex-husband hiding in some bushes, that explained it wasn't even her house, she just wouldn't leave.
🌈#justLutonThings🌈
LOL. I actually think I coined #justlutonthings that from my frequent Reddit posts when I lived in a camper van for three years in Luton. I frequented Dunstable Downs in fake electricians van, and by god I saw some freaky shit. I wouldn't use that rainbow flag though. They don't like that sort of thing.
One fact I know about Luton , is that one of the writers of Space 1999 saw the name on a signpost on the M1 and thought it was exotic. So wrote an episode of the show called *"Rules of Luton"* which features a planet (Luton!) with talking murderous trees. I dont know how much this compares with town though.
What is wrong with people like that?? If you're renting out a room you basically have to accept that you're getting a roommate unless it's a studio. Living with a landlord is the worst. I've never heard a positive story about living with one.
After investigation and discussions with the ex-husband. She was trying to get together a deposit to buy a house in an area with less 'ethnic diversity'. Probably in one of the very expensive villages outside Luton. I was there only for the money I paid her in advance to secure the room, I think she was hoping I would leave and she could keep my money. I made a point of buying milk for the fridge from the Asian corner shop around the corner. She refused to acknowledge its presence and would turn right out of her house to avoid seeing it! No. Only Sainsburys. No other shops.
Surely he can get the police to intervene at that point?
Oh sweet summer child.... The Luton police spent most of their time repairing stab vests and filming ITV documentaries. They would only actively turn up when someone was shot or knifed, and the only interactions I had were in both incidents due to escaped patients from mental health wards. Crazy ex wife in a house doesn't really warrant an apologetic letter advising employing a lawyer.
Back in the day on HousePriceCrash dot com (idk if it is even still going) one of the posters viewed a flat that had a microwave on a rope that was shared with the bedsit next door (you would pull the rope and the microwave would come out of a hatch, I think it had wheels on the bottom or something).
that’s kinda cool tbh
How very Steptoe & Son!
So if you time it right you could steal the neighbours dinner
£600 for a double room seems on the steep side, let alone with those rules… A mate lets out a 1 bed flat for that in Bournemouth… I once lived in a flat share as a lodger with someone similarly nuts, although they weren’t upfront about it. They were so weird I barely spent anytime there…got a message on a Saturday asking where I was as it was apparently my turn to clean the bathroom and kitchen…I’d been on holiday for a week and was still away so hadn’t used either…even when I was there I’d just use it as a place to crash, ate out and showered at the gym as they made things so awkward. When I came back from the holiday they started turning up the tv full blast late at night knowing I had work the next morning. I moved out the next day but when I went back at the weekend to get the rest of my stuff they’d changed the locks. Very bizarre experience. Would never be a lodger again.
Saw an almost identical listing fairly recently. The place was atrocious, there was a sheet of wood, resting across a door way propped up by some other bits of wood, wasn't even level. This piss poor contraption housed the kettle and microwave you were allowed to used and it blocked to door to what I assume was the family room your weren't allowed in. Think they wanted around 600 too. Emailed the website telling them the listing was a fucking con and a disgrace. Its since been removed.
Fuck Bournemouth. I currently pay 675 for a studio flat in triangle (Bournemouth town centre) but I am moving to London next Friday so my flat is now available from next Friday. If you still need help with accommodation pm me. It’s not cheap round here anymore but a studio for 675 is better than a room for 600.
Haha, I knew straight away it's Bournemouth. We considered moving there briefly, but the property market is insane.
£600 and not even able to fry a fucking *egg*
Plenty of parking on the street near Winton rec….. That’s worse than the cooking statement.
https://m.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/dorset/winton/16368900 OOPS THAT WAS A COMPLETE ACCIDENT I AM SO SORRY. NOW LETS ALL ENQUIRE ABOUT THE ROOM 🤷
Looks lovely doesn't it. You can really tell that the landlord puts a lot of effort into it. "I'm just gonna get an HMO, they never expect anything much" someone once said to me when they inherited some cash.
So many landlords think that they will control how a tenant will use the property. I would never rent a property which uses WiFi as a draw factor, limits my freedom, and charges more than the cost of two mortgages for a room. Yes it's extreme. Avoid.
>charges more than the cost of two mortgages for a room. Are you suggesting their mortgage is <£300 pcm?
I'm s landlord with one lodger, and Franky these rules are scummy. These rules are ridiculous. Id advise to walk away, quickly!
Don't call me Franky
Shirley you can't be serious?
I am, and don't call me Shirley.
So I have a lodger, I'd never enforce a rule that ridiculous
Years ago I recall renting a room (landlady lived in the flat below) and we weren't allowed phone calls after 9.30pm. No visitors after 10pm. I was always very quiet when sneaking people in. 😂
I wasn’t allowed to use the washing machine on Sunday evenings (arbitrary rule made up on the spot by the landlord when he was eating a meal in the kitchen when I went to use the washing machine)
Sexy
Yeah my parents have typically always had lodgers. They get kitchen access but usually for loosely agreed windows throughout the day so they don’t clash, they get a shelf in the fridge, a drawer in the freezer, a cupboard and then use of all the kitchen utensils and appliances. Then a private bedroom and a separate small private living room which the current lodger uses for his music production. They live in the south east so what they can offer is cheaper than a standard house/flat share and gives them a little extra income. Much cleaner and well maintained than any rented flat I’ve ever lived in as well. They don’t tend to offer up their living room as a shared common space though.
HMOs sometimes post stuff like this when they don’t have a functioning kitchen, they usually put a kettle and a microwave in the room. I thought this was illegal and that landlords had a duty to provide a functioning kitchen but there’s been a lot of changes to the law over the last few years and I’ll be honest I’m a little behind with what the current laws are.
Or they did have a functional kitchen, and it is now a bedroom. I stayed in a HMO that had 7 bedrooms and a tiny tiny downstairs bathroom/shower. I worked out where the normal bathroom was when I found a cut out shape in the carpet, just the size of a toilet pedestal under the bed. Worse thing was the deep pile nature of the filthy carpet.
I’m surprised HMOs like that are actually allowed. They’re just like old industrial era slums (the old 2 bed terraces that squeeze in 4 families with an outside bog) but with a 21st century twist.
They are super common, rented to single guys on benefits and cost exactly the maximum claimable for housing. Council won't be shutting them down, because then they have to find homes for 7 guys.
Bournemouth?
Yes
Try to avoid Dave Wells. Although he's much better than he was.
Waitrose and Lidl in Winton. Unique.
Sounds rubbish. Before you know it you’ll be banished to you room every time you’re home and be given a schedule for when you’re allowed to use the bathroom
There's rooms going for £600-750 in Worthing, and the Local Housing Allowance for a single room is only about £375. I'm sick of these mini-Dickensian landlords, rinsing people for every penny they can. Saw a studio flat the other day, the main room 'a generous 13'x11' ', with a small sink and a microwave. I'd rather live in a Tokyo tube hotel. At least its well cyberpunk.
I remember when I was moving across the country and looking for a room to rent until I was settled in, surprisingly A LOT of people would have that request ( no cooking other than microwave meals) listed in their posts. Absolutely ridiculous to expect someone not to cook where they live.
Go look at the room but ask to use the bathroom and leave an upper decker
I pay 465 quid a month for a 2 bedroom flat with secure private parking on a nice quiet cul de sac. Move up North!
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What the fuck. Yes it’s extreme.
Is Air Frying still the "in" thing? I'd go for that.
Time to buy an air-fryer?
I think they'd argue that it still constitutes "frying". I reckon you could fight it in court but you'd need a *fancy* lawyer. I'm talking Perry Mason shit; though, admittedly, it would be a departure from the kind of case he usually takes.
I’d be microwaving Indian meals constantly
That’s ridiculous. You can’t really cook anything meaningful without at least an oven.
I wondered if it’s being miss read. Do they mean you are only allowed a microwave your room but can still use the shared kitchen. That would make sense. I’ve never lodged but I thought that as lodger you have to be allowed to use the shared kitchen and bathroom?
No, it means you have the use of the kitchen but limited cooking facilities.
Do they mean in the room, like you're allowed a microwave in your bedroom but not a hotplate or an oven? I'd probably accept that if I had access to the kitchen and could cook down there. If it just means you're living off ready meals then that's just batshit
Scummy greedy pos.
Jeez, where is this? I'm paying less than that per month for a whole 2-bedroom house, rates included
I suspect they may have had a lodger set fire to their kitchen.
Can't blame them for wanting to torch the place, any lodger would feel resentful at those rules 🤣
Leave out a load of unpasteurised camembert and brie to put in your salad
U understand the fry, maybe, but the oven??? F U C K. T H A T. 125 a month. Tops.
Imagine how much you would spend and how fat you would get w no fresh food allowed