Questions tagged [landlord]
For questions about interacting with your landlord or as a landlord to your tenant.
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How to tell someone that I am not going to help anymore unless paid
I recently moved into a new shared house. There is a property manager who is responsible for finding new tenants and has an individual lease with each person. He is not very fluent in English which ...
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How to tell landlord that their rent increase is above the legal limit and remain on good terms?
Where I live the price of rent is very high. The government has many rules governing rent. In my experience, it is common for people not to follow all the laws (either out of ignorance or ...
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How can I talk to my friend in order to make sure he won't stay more than two weeks?
I recently bought a 3 bedroom house as a single male and as a result I have more than enough space for myself. My close friend has contacted me saying that his landlord wants to evict him and if he ...
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Landlord was knocking on my door close to midnight regarding a (minor) complaint (that I had nothing to do with)
I recently moved into a new home. I share the place with 2 other roommates. Last night close to midnight the landlord came over banging on my bedroom door. I was about to fall asleep. It turned out ...
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How to tell landlord I don't want him showing my room the day before and during my move
I am moving out of my home. The landlord sent me a message asking what time he can show the place on Tuesday and Wednesday. I didn't realize it right away, but Wednesday is the day I'm moving. I will ...
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How do I ask my unhygienic housemate to move out?
Some context: I was entrusted with living in and looking after my aunt's house for a number of years now, and I've been subletting a couple of the rooms to help pay the rent and bills. One of the ...
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How can I respectfully ask my landlady to use English when in my home?
When our landlady comes into our place she always brings a relative. She visits with repair people, or most often it's a family member doing repairs. When they talk to us, they use fluent English. ...
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How to resolve a conflict with a noisy neighbor and a passive landlord?
(This is mostly a copy of a question I asked over at Law.SE. I'm reposting it here following the advice of a commenter to look for solutions with a more interpersonal appraoch.)
I have a friend who ...
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How to talk to my landlord about a playmate of his daughter stressing me?
Background
So I am living in a 3 party house, which was a generation house before 1 flat got free like 2 years ago and I moved in half a year ago (Might be relevant).
My landlord and his wife live in ...
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How to ask for landlord's address to be included on lease
I'm looking to rent a basement suite. The landlord showed me the lease he had written (he argued the standard one provided by the government is too long and complicated, which I tend to agree).
His ...
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Is it common courtesy to leave a gift behind someone's door?
My landlord always gives me a birthday gift. He is too kind I know, but he never delivers the gift by himself, instead he leaves it in the common kitchen.
Sometimes he also gives us a piece of cake ...
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How do I get my landlord to show some consideration without souring our relationship?
I've been living at my current address for just under 3 months. I'm not renewing the lease for another year after this one is up, so my landlord has just started to take viewings for the property.
So ...
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How to ask a host to fix something, they consider due to their lacking knowledge, not flawed?
I am living for 2 months now in a pension and will probably stay there for 3~4 more months. The host provides WLAN. Sadly the WLAN is blocking some websites and a vast amount of ports required for ...
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How to tell the leaseholder I won't cover a kicked-out roommates rent
Last month I moved into a shared house. There are 6 people living here. The primary leaseholder told me he had told another tenant to move out because he was always late on the rent. I never met this ...
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How to involve the law with minimizing feelings of threatening
Basically I have to give someone I live with notice I will start legal action against them.
A roommate's dog will not stop barking. I told her it affects my ability to work and sleep and she said ...
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How to express my concerns to a potential new landlord?
Me and my partner have recently started searching for a new apartment. The reason for leaving the current one is the difficult landlady despite us being model tenants. This includes things like ...
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My new landlord tends to stay up late and make a bit of noise, my sleep is suffering
This woman bought the duplex we rent a couple months ago. We live in the upper, she lives in the lower. She and her girlfriend seem to sleep in the room directly below mine and I can often hear them ...
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How should I present the idea of doing repairs and minor renovations to my landlord?
TL;DR: I'm a competent and careful handyman who cares deeply about the quality of my work. I'd like to present the idea of doing repairs and minor renovations to my rental for only the cost of ...
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Asking landlord to stop letting himself in the house
I live in a large house shared with several other roommates. The landlord has been letting himself in, often without a clear reason. This is illegal where I live. Sometimes I do not see him myself, ...
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How to ask a landlord to install air conditioning?
I rent an upper mid-class standard flat, solo, Warsaw, Poland. The only big drawback is heat. From about April to September room temperature stays at >26 Celsius day and night. This lowers sleep ...
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How to politely tell landlord "you don't have to remind me for rent"
I have been living in this house for the last four months and always paid my rent on the first day of the month. My landlord is an old lady living in the same house with me. We have a very good ...
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Resident landlord set up webcam in front of door
A friend in the UK is sharing a property with several other people, which includes one couple (of both British and South American origins), which I believe are the landlords.
Yesterday, they decided ...
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