Getting rid of a housemate

awesomelakes

I'm in a situation where three tenants (including myself) want to get rid of the forth housemate. Reasons being that she is very bad at paying rent (currently owes 2 months worth), her room is a health hazard (food stays up there for months on end, melting into the floors), she smokes a lot of weed and often has her friends over at nights for some drug fueled parties. Basically she is messy and inconsiderate and we would like her gone, do we have any right to complain to the landlord?

Thanks

Arbiter of Good Taste

awesomelakes wrote: »

I'm in a situation where three tenants (including myself) want to get rid of the forth housemate. Reasons being that she is very bad at paying rent (currently owes 2 months worth), her room is a health hazard (food stays up there for months on end, melting into the floors), she smokes a lot of weed and often has her friends over at nights for some drug fueled parties. Basically she is messy and inconsiderate and we would like her gone, do we have any right to complain to the landlord?

Thanks

Are you all on one lease or separate licensees? Assuming you are on a single lease, then it's not the LL's problem.

awesomelakes

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

Are you all on one lease or separate licensees? Assuming you are on a single lease, then it's not the LL's problem.

I've actually never signed any papers, so I'm going to guess that it is a single lease unfortunately. Thanks though.

Mrs OBumble

You need to find out who signed any papers. If it's her, then the rest of you may just need to move out.

If she's regularly breaking the law (weed), then you can complain to the LL about anti-social behaviour. But depend on how out of control her behaviour is, it could get difficult for you.

okiss

A few years ago one of my friends was in a similar position to you.
At the time they lived a a house with a number of bedsits.
The house was nice and the other renters were nice.

The landlord let one of the bedsits out to the renter from hell.
He would come in drunk at 1.30 in the morning, start to cook with the radio on loud. Would start to sing along with this at times. This could happen on week nights or at the weekend.
He would go out or get drunk at home with a few less than nice friends.
It you met him when drunk he would make a few abusive comments.

My friend got sick of this and chatted to a few of the other renters. They decided to tell the landlord that unless he got rid of this renter they could not stay in the house. The landlord had problems with person also but within a few weeks he was gone.

I would chat to the landlord and let them know she is 2 months behind in the rent - if she can afford dope she can afford rent.
I would also tell the landlord she is smoking dope in the house, has a lot of "wrong friends", is making a lot of noise and that you will all have to consider it you can stay renting the house if she stays there for much longer.
In fact the next night she has her "friends over for a party I would ring the local gards station and let them call over to the house due to the noise. Make sure that you and the other renters are not there when this happens. Ring the landlord the next day and tell them you arrived home to find the guards in the house the night before.

No landlord was the guards calling or the neighbors complaining about there renters.

liam650

I think that the 3 of you need to tell her to leave, its majority rules 3 - 1, you can't be putting up with someone like that and if she is doing drugs then call the gardai who will escort her from the premises, the landlord should step in too if she is not paying rent