Having a lodger

[Nick]

Having just (or very nearly - should be fully complete next week) re done the house I bought (a fairly big 4 bedroom house) I have had someone ask if im renting a room already. I was thinking of offering a room to rent eventually but ive not moved in my self yet!
So has anyone ever had a lodger?
How did it work?
Any tips or advice?

 

[miller]

Dont let them give you the rent money on a Friday evening in the pub whilts drinking together!!

Otherwise its all down to personalities and sharing your space with them. Dont be afraid to tell em where to go either!

 

[fq-craigus]

Contract! Do it through a letting agent if possible otherwise it's a whole heap of potential trouble.

 

[Nick]

Contract! Do it through a letting agent if possible otherwise it's a whole heap of potential trouble.

Contract is obvious but I dont use an agent for my other lets so i wont be using one for a lodger. The legal side is no bother, its the how to structure living with a lodger I dont know!

 

[evoaps]

Not a hope would I share my house with a stranger

 

[fq-craigus]

Locks on every door in that case. As said I wouldn't let out a room I see too much trouble in my job with customers skipping payment and when I visit the house they have gone and robbed their housemates

 

[J3ayy]

Now maybe if this was my lodger :shock:

 

[Phil74]

Think if she was the lodger you would be a long time getting any rent from her lmao

 

[Dimbers]

If she was my lodger i wouldn't be starting off on a 6 month contract, I'd have her tied in for 6 years, and as for locks on all doors, only when she's inside lol.

Seriously tho I don't think I could share my house with a stranger, but that's not what you asked is it.

It sounds like your clued up on letting and contracts etc, so as said it would be about personalities.

 

[evoaps]

I'd be a lodger in her lol

 

[Aidy]

If you don't mind, then fair enough, but I've always seen having a lodger as something you do when you don't have the option due to financial reasons. The way I see it, it's my house and I want the pleasure of taking a dump with the bathroom door open, loading the sink with two weeks of washing, and watching what the f**k I want on TeeVee I'd hate to have some stranger moping around, but I suppose everyone is different.

Edit: However if I *did* have a lodger it would have to be a female...that way there wouldn't *be* two weeks washing in the sink