Has anyone had experiences similar to mine with lodgers - I'm beginning to feel jinxed. I've had two lodgers renting a room in my apartment. The first one, a female, was a OCD clean freak, she was rude, sulky, constantly giving out and complaining, demanding and I ultimately got rid of her when she kept paying the rent late and refused to pay certain bills.
The second lodger was a male who turned out to have an alcohol problem - he went on a bender, locked himself in his room with the curtains constantly closed and I didn't see him for days on end. There was a strong smell of spirits and pot coming from the bedroom. He claimed to have a job yet never left the apartment as far as I know, except to go to the shop. And he cooked stuff in the middle of the night and left dirty dishes and pots lying around. He also never paid me any deposit and didn't pay for any bills for the whole time he was living there. I asked him to leave after a week and a half of this behaviour and gave him 4 weeks to move out. So I had to put up with 6 weeks of him altogether. When he left I found badly soiled bed clothes (that I had provided as a courtesy) stuffed into the washing machine but unwashed. We're talking brown stains, probably diarrhoea and also spots of blood. I had to bin the lot. He never did a wash in the 6 weeks so he must have been lying on those stains! Also blood spots on the carpet. I spent hours scouring the room after him.
It's really put me off getting another lodger. However I have a lady moving in in April but I'm really nervous!!
The second lodger was a male who turned out to have an alcohol problem - he went on a bender, locked himself in his room with the curtains constantly closed and I didn't see him for days on end. There was a strong smell of spirits and pot coming from the bedroom. He claimed to have a job yet never left the apartment as far as I know, except to go to the shop. And he cooked stuff in the middle of the night and left dirty dishes and pots lying around. He also never paid me any deposit and didn't pay for any bills for the whole time he was living there. I asked him to leave after a week and a half of this behaviour and gave him 4 weeks to move out. So I had to put up with 6 weeks of him altogether. When he left I found badly soiled bed clothes (that I had provided as a courtesy) stuffed into the washing machine but unwashed. We're talking brown stains, probably diarrhoea and also spots of blood. I had to bin the lot. He never did a wash in the 6 weeks so he must have been lying on those stains! Also blood spots on the carpet. I spent hours scouring the room after him.
It's really put me off getting another lodger. However I have a lady moving in in April but I'm really nervous!!