Q:Daughters moving into a different student house on Saturday and I'm just wondering if this should be of any concern:
There are 5 rooms 3 of the students have already been living there before my daughter and her friend move in there on Sat.
One of the present students is at the end of her final year so she will no longer be a student and is starting a full time job as a psychologist. This girl is now letting her boyfriend move in her room as he is a student starting his new cource in September. Her name is being taken off the tenancy and her bfs name being put on there instead. They are going to share the room but as this is a student house it should really be council tax free. They arent going to declare shes living there this is why they have taken her name off the tenancy so it stays a student house she she wont have to pay council tax.
The landlord is aware of this. The tenancy will only show 5 of them, the students, and an amount in rent to be split by 5 of them and that all bills and utilities will be split by the 5 of them
They didnt know about this till they went round recently to check on somethimng should they be concerned at all?
As for the rent thats between them and the landord the landlord is perfectly within his rights to demand another set of rent. This isnt your problem if he does or doesnt charge this though.
Why is your daughter willing to pay a fifth of the total bills when there are six people living there?!!
I was a student whilst my wife was working, I'm quite familiar with the Council Tax rules and regs.
As for whether this is mal practice then yes, but its on the other girl's head, not the other tenants.
The 5 people paying rent and utilities are all poor students?
The one person in the house with a full-time job will be living for free and be subsidised by the others?
I'll tell you what, she will be brilliant at her job as a psychologist if she can get people to fall for this.