Question re: Lodger agreement

[kalidarkone]

I live with my lodger and her 14 year old daughter. They have a bedroom each as well as access to kitchen, bathroom, lounge, dining room and garden.
I'm just setting up the agreement now.
Does the 14 year old qualify as a lodger ? Should her details be on the form along with her ma?

marty21?

 

[purenarcotic]

No. She's too young to hold any sort of tenancy type arrangement. She's your lodger's dependent.

 

[kabbes]

It's good to set up an agreement but you should know that lodgers almost have zero rights under law anyway, no matter what you agree. Should you decide to turf them out tomorrow, IIRC, you would have the absolute right to do that. Being a lodger is a long way from being a tenant.

And even the rights that lodgers do have are not shared by paying guests. Do your lodgers have lockable bedrooms with their own separate key? If not, they aren't lodgers, they're paying guests. That really is zero rights territory.

 

[kalidarkone]

It's good to set up an agreement but you should know that lodgers almost have zero rights under law anyway, no matter what you agree. Should you decide to turf them out tomorrow, IIRC, you would have the absolute right to do that. Being a lodger is a long way from being a tenant.

And even the rights that lodgers do have are not shared by paying guests. Do your lodgers have lockable bedrooms with their own separate key? If not, they aren't lodgers, they're paying guests. That really is zero rights territory.

Yes I understand this, but thankfully we are old old friends so the agreement is just a formality, they have already been here 2 years it's just that she can now claim Hb as her circumstances have changed, which is why we need the agreement.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Yes I understand this, but thankfully we are old old friends so the agreement is just a formality, they have already been here 2 years it's just that she can now claim Hb as her circumstances have changed, which is why we need the agreement.

You are a good landlady housing a friend and her daughter