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Renting and living with Landlady

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  • 11-05-2018 9:33pm
    #1
    CWF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭


    Bh


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,787 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    CWF wrote: »
    In this situation, who should cut the grass? She has hinted at me doing it, I know she wants me to but probably won't ask out straight.
    It'd be a good hour and half work, once a week or more coming into the summer. Last time it was cut was last August, she paid someone time, before that I did it because I had just moved in and wanted to impress I suppose. Would love to hear your thoughts. No lease signed. I'm a 29 year old male the landlady is in her 40s and goes to the gym, runs etc so she isn't immobile by any means.

    Next thing then you'll be marrying her.


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    CWF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭CWF


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Next thing then you'll be marrying her.

    Haha that's precisely what I'm afraid of


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    ruahead
    Registered Users Posts: 117 ✭✭ruahead


    Does doing it once imply it's your job forever ? Do it if you want to , if you're going to be sitting in the garden etc I suppose she owns the place so technically it's up to her.


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    godtabh
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    CWF wrote: »
    In this situation, who should cut the grass? She has hinted at me doing it, I know she wants me to but probably won't ask out straight.
    It'd be a good hour and half work, once a week or more coming into the summer. Last time it was cut was last August, she paid someone time, before that I did it because I had just moved in and wanted to impress I suppose. Would love to hear your thoughts. No lease signed. I'm a 29 year old male the landlady is in her 40s and goes to the gym, runs etc so she isn't immobile by any means.

    If this isn’t an intro to a prono I dont know what is


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    wildwillow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭wildwillow


    Do it only if you are given a rent reduction in line with what it would cost her to have it done. You are her tenant (I presume, nothing more)not her handyman. Doing it herself will give her a workout!


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    CWF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭CWF


    wildwillow wrote: »
    Do it only if you are given a rent reduction in line with what it would cost her to have it done. You are her tenant (I presume, nothing more)not her handyman. Doing it herself will give her a workout!

    That's exactly what I thought. Yeah I'm just renting, nothing more. Thanks


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    CWF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭CWF


    ruahead wrote: »
    Does doing it once imply it's your job forever ? Do it if you want to , if you're going to be sitting in the garden etc I suppose she owns the place so technically it's up to her.

    Yeah that's a fair point.


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    On the other hand... you probably are a licensee so you might want to keep her sweet.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    CWF
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    On the other hand... you probably are a licensee so you might want to keep her sweet.

    What do you mean!?


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    CWF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭CWF


    Patww79 wrote: »
    It's not up to you to do it and you shouldn't have to do it, but you will have to do it given the situation.

    Why do you think?


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    CWF wrote: »
    What do you mean!?

    In general if you live with an owner you don’t have the rights of a tenant, although people often confuse the two.

    You have very few rights as a licensee. She can kick you out with minimum notice.


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    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,601 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Just cut it,it's only 1.5 hrs per week,it'll give u exercise and fresh air. PS: do u have much spare time


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    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    wildwillow wrote: »
    Do it only if you are given a rent reduction in line with what it would cost her to have it done. You are her tenant (I presume, nothing more)not her handyman. Doing it herself will give her a workout!

    Actually the op is a licensee if he lives with the property owner, nothing more than a guest in the house. She can boot him out whenever she likes, so as Franz posted, it might be worth keeping her sweet.


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    ted1
    Registered Users Posts: 23,524 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    How big is the garden ? An hour and a half sounds excessive.


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    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Brego888


    I'd just tell her if you want me to cut it I can this time but I don't want it to become my job.
    If you talk about it in a good humoured way it'll be fine.


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    Wesser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    An hour a d a half a week!! ??
    Holy F that must be a massive lawn

    Tell her to buy one of those husqvarna auto mowers.


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    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Is she good looking?


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    #21
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,709 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Landlord, do you remember when I mowed your lawn? (mowed your lawn)
    You came out with just a towel on (towel on)
    I could tell you like me from the way you stared (the way you stared)
    And the way you said, "You missed a spot over there." (a spot over there)


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,950 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Offer to do it every 2nd week, if she does it in the intervening weeks.


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    myshirt
    Registered Users Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    I'm starting to fear the op is not referring to a garden in the traditional sense, but moreso the biblical sense.

    If correct op, you need to get out of there. More and more we are hearing cases like this. It's taking advantage and plainly it's not worth it. This lady hasn't tidied up her garden since August? It's now May. Let that sink in. I shudder to think of how bad it is.


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    Lawnmo
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Lawnmo


    Must be some lawn if it'll take an hour and a half!! Would probably take you half an hour. Go out and do it. You're over thinking it and who knows, you might enjoy it. If you feel you wont, just do a rubbish job so she wont ask you again


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    fleet
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭fleet


    Depends on what your rent and bills come to.

    If it's tuppence ha'penney then cut the grass.
    If it's market rates then she can pay someone to do it.


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    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    fleet wrote: »
    Depends on what your rent and bills come to.

    If it's tuppence ha'penney then cut the grass.
    If it's market rates then she can pay someone to do it.

    its an awkward one, but I can't see the rental continuing if the op refuses.

    But apart from that , healthy 29 year old male refuses to cut lawn for lady in house where he lives, times have certainly changed.

    In tenancy agreements where the landlord does not live in the property, upkeep of the garden by the tenant is usually a condition of the lease.


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    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    What if you cant ( abroad / ill / holiday etc ) for several weeks / months ?

    What if lawnmower stops working ? ( will it me your fault ? / do you have to repair it ?)

    What if she isnt happy with the way you do it ?

    What if...
    What if...
    What if...


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    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    0lddog wrote: »
    What if you cant ( abroad / ill / holiday etc ) for several weeks / months ?

    What if lawnmower stops working ? ( will it me your fault ? / do you have to repair it ?)

    What if she isnt happy with the way you do it ?

    What if...
    What if...
    What if...

    What if, you remembered it's cutting grass, not adding on an extension. It's pretty simple to do.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I'd take my top off and do it,
    You might get a "Ride-on-mower" after that.........


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    The lazy cow should do if herself. You are not live in labour. And I really doubt doing a bad job would put her off, if she hasn't cut it since August she'll take anything.


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    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    CWF wrote: »
    It's just a regular front and back lawn in an semi detached housing estate. It's not that big at all it's just it would take forever because the grass is so bloody long after not being cut in nearly a year! Plus the lawnmower has a tiny collector so it needs to be emptied every couple of minutes, using her tiny electrical fly mo.

    "Take forever"? Jesus wept, are you 13?

    Cut it at high setting without the collector box the first time, rake it up, then cut quickly with the box on at a lower setting.


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