The latest unnamed miscreant has been unveiled by London home hunter Laura Evelyn who revealed his idiosyncratic and unreasonable demands of tenants on Twitter.
Not only are his house rules overbearing – but his threats of instant eviction and additional charges are illegal.
Here are some of the 31 demands:
• Don’t bring any pork in to the house
• A 15 minute time limit on showers at certain times of day
• A 30 minute time limit on cooking – with the doors open or a ‘as I feel’ charge for new wallpaper
• Leaving dishes in the kitchen sink will trigger a £15 charge
• Noisy people get a chance to calm down or face instant eviction and loss of their deposit
• No guests without verbal and written consent
• No guest can stay over without giving the landlord two weeks’ notice
• No additional heating allowed in rooms
• No food in rooms or a cleaner will be brought charging £15 per hour
• No personal property in communal areas or the landlord will throw it out as rubbish
The full list was given in writing to prospective tenants at an unidentified London shared house in multiple occupation where the landlord lives on the premises.
Of course, imposing charges not specified in a tenancy agreement, instant eviction and withholding deposits for no good reason are all well-documented offences that no reasonable landlord would inflict on a tenant.
Laura, an actress, did not sign up to rent the room, and broadcast the details on her Twitter page (@lauraevelyn1) which she rues has garnered her more attention under #dodgylandlord than all her publicity and performance efforts as an actress.
