The site with guidance and services for people renting a room in their home to a lodger!
If you are new to renting rooms to lodgers, you may want to read our 21 days of tips for Lodger Landlords. The other sections of the site (our documents shop and legal advice service) can be found from the links above.
Enjoy the site and please feel free to leave a comment, if you have any questions or points you want to make, on the relevant blog items below.
Tessa Shepperson
I did a talk recently at the Landlord & Buy to Let Show in London (5/3/10), and it was clear from some of the questions asked, that, even though I covered this topic on Day 1 of my 21 days of tips, people are confused about the difference between a lodger and a tenant.
I am [...]
When I mean disappearing lodger, I don’t mean one who fades away like the Cheshire Cat! I mean the tenant who just goes off and never comes back. Generally owing you rent. I had an email from a reader about this just the other day, who said, quite rightly that this is not covered in [...]
Are you worried about your lodger? Do you need some advice?
Although our 21 days of tips series will answer most people’s questions, there are always those tricky situations where you need some professional help If you have a difficult problem and need to know what your legal rights are, you may want to consider using [...]
I am pleased to announce the opening of the Lodger Landlord Shop! This is a separate part of the site where you can purchase documents, forms and letters.
At present the only items there are a lodger agreement and a letter of authority. Although these are arguably two of the most important documents you will need.
Lodger Agreement: [...]
Well the 21 days of tips has now concluded. If you are a lodger landlord, I hope you have enjoyed it and found it useful.
To help you find your way around it, here is a list of all the posts published in the series:
Day 1 – What is a lodger?
This looks at whether there is [...]
As well as writing this web-site, I have also written a book on lodgers, published by Lawpack. Previously it was only available as a download from the Lawpack web-site, but excitingly, it has now been printed, so you can buy it in the shops or download it from Amazon. It is called The Quick Guide [...]
Our last few tips have looked a problem lodger situations, but of course this is not the norm. Most lodgers get on very well with their landlord. However all good things have to end, and sooner or later the day will come when your lodger leaves.
There are many reasons. Most of my lodgers, for example, [...]
Although hopefully this will never happen to you, very occasionally lodger landlords will need to evict their lodger. Todays tips give guidance on this.
Caution – todays tip only applies to lodger landlords who share living accommodation with their lodgers.
The guidance given here regarding eviction, will *only* be applicable to landlords with lodgers living in [...]
In most cases your lodger experience will be a positive one. However sadly, this is not always the case. If you do experience problems, todays tips should help.
Stage 1 – talk to your lodger
If you are unhappy about something, have a word with your lodger about it. For example if he is not [...]
