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My girlfriend is currently at university and is renting a house, which she shares with 5 other people (me NOT being one of them).

However, over the summer, whilst the other 5 housemates are at their family homes, we intend to stay there. Of course, she has a right to stay, but does anyone know of the rules for me? I will be staying for roughly 2 months. I know about sub-letting, but it won’t be that because I won’t be paying any rent. Are house guests allowed for that long? This is in the UK by the way.

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southern_comfort offline Verified User (7 years) Long Term User Shouts: 178 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months ago (4 minutes after post)

That all depends on the landlord and his/her rules. I doubt you can hide out of sight for 2 months. Ask your girlfriend to discuss this with them first so everything is clear to everybody. And any mess you make in the kitchen make sure to clean up after….

-mum

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monkichirmo offline Verified User (4 years) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (4 minutes after post)

that would depend on the terms of the lease. if there is nothing regarding this i guess if you feel the need ask/let the others know and see what comes of that.

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An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (10 minutes after post)

I agree - I lived in 3 different places during my 3 yrs at uni and the rules varied with the different landlords.

Ask the landlord’s permission, and also check the other housemates are happy with it.

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11 months ago (12 minutes after post)

The other housemates are fine with it, I was just unsure if the landlord would have an issue with it. ilivelife could I ask how differently the rules varied?

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ilivelife offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 11 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (7 hours, 16 minutes after post)

One landlord didn’t let us have overnight guests, one allowed overnight guests but wouldn’t let us have anyone stay longer term, one let us do whatever we liked!

There were loads of other variants re: rules but not relevant to your situation.

At the end of the day if you are a private landlord you can pretty much set your own rules on what you expect from your tenants. If the tenant doesn’t like it, they don’t need to move in!

You’ll just need to ask the landlord, there’s no point in trying to guess.

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