Carrie is quite right with the deposit protection advice. No protection with a licence agreement. Must admit I only handled one of those myself as most tend to do the agreements themselves. There are lots of requirements for large houses used as HMOs and not all require licencing depending on the area.
Report him to the tax man as you can bet he thinks he's covered by the rent a room scheme, bit he's likely to be way outside it.
Worst landlords are live in landlords. Why because they can't afford to pay the mortgage on their own but hate the fact that someone else is living there. Good luck with that, it'll end as civil as the WW3 would be.
He thinks he's a nuts London lawyer but doesn't work and has to rent his house out. He tries to make everyone live exactly how he wants them and excuses it by saying it's for the good of the house.
I got a couple of emails saying it was unhygienic to walk barefoot in the house, a few weeks before I had nipped down all the stairs (3 floors) to brush my teeth without any sock on and so I assumed it was that - all the other time I wear socks. When I had a converstation with him last night he said I generally disrespected the entire household and still still walk barefoot. I was a bit puzzled as I was currently wearing socks and I said this. He said that that is still barefoot and expected to buy slippers or something like that and it turns out this is what the emails meant! He neglected to define to me his idea of what barefoot was!
If he thinks socks are barefoot, he'd hate me.. I do walk barefoot. Outside, too. Yeah, get your ****, get your deposit, get out. Guy sounds like a shitheel.
Socks generally count as indoor footwear - GTFO, get advice on your deposit, rat on his household breaching council rules and whatnot as applicable.
He's not a lawyer. If he was a practising lawyer he wouldn't have to rent out rooms in his house. And being as he's not and is unable to conduct his affairs correctly and professionally then i assume he's either spectacularly bad or failed to qualify as one.
True. Unfortunately, the term 'lawyer' also encompasses a broad spectrum of those working in the legal profession - he's an ex-lawyer (or wannabe lawyer) at best.
If you're gay you could always sleep with his boyfriend then move out telling him to stick his deposit on your way out the door. He sounds like a nit picking fanny to me, So if you're not gay just leave his finicky abode and shack up with some bikers.
Not having a go at gays but there was a gay tutor on a course I was on and he was very....bitchy towards the blokes. He would also keep looking at my crotch when I was talking to him.... urgh !
^My former step brother is a raving fairy queen ( the feminine type of homosexual, as opposed to the butch type ), and I can confirm that those type of gays are indeed extremely anally retentive, bitchy, bossy, prone to hysterical fits or rage & love to cause arguments for the sake of it ( ergo, the same as living with a woman... ). ( you guys already know I'm not anti-gay or anything, I'm just brutally honest & very observant... ). I echo everyone else & suggest getting out of there as quickly as possible as nothing you do or say to try and placate him will be good enough- be sure to rat on him to the council as well for good measure.
There it is.... I like this idea... do it just before you move out. Call it one of the reasons you're leaving...
