Advice Needed - Student Son's housemate threatening violence !

[d000hg]

Wise words.

[doodab]

You did a Gap Yah? How progressive..

No, I lived on my own and had a full time job while doing my A levels.

Part of the point of Uni is teaching you how to live as a real person, so snide comments about babysitting are rather lame really.

Well if you didn't make snide comments you wouldn't invite them.

The majority go straight from home (who cares if you didn't) so it makes sense the first year DOES hold your hand a bit.

And why do you think this doesn't happen in university managed flats and university managed houses?

That's the whole point of halls... you get a room or share a room and get to know people in a slightly 'managed' environment before taking the plunge into adulthood the next year when you know people.

Yes, and lots of "proper universities" have managed houses and blocks of flats (sometimes called "halls") as well as more traditional halls. I'd argue they are a better preparation for the "plunge into adulthood" as well, given that in a lot of halls the mollycoddling seemed to be pitched at people who are just getting used to not having servants. At least, that's what the halls were like at my uni.

I'm not quite sure how you got the idea that living in halls isn't living with total strangers in the first place. Did you have a cabal of school friends who all ended up at the same place?

[d000hg]

Haven't you read this thread? Neither the OP or MF is talking about a university 'halls' flat, where problem people would be speedily dealt with. Going to be a fresher in a university-managed housing block is exactly the kind of thing I'm supporting, to avoid everyone having to be as grown up as you apparently were, to avoid dealing with landlords and all that crud.

If you're in a hall it's all strangers, yes, but there are dozens or hundreds of you rather than 4 or 5 in a house as a single unit.

[Bunk]

Haven't you read this thread? Neither the OP or MF is talking about a university 'halls' flat, where problem people would be speedily dealt with. Going to be a fresher in a university-managed housing block is exactly the kind of thing I'm supporting, to avoid everyone having to be as grown up as you apparently were, to avoid dealing with landlords and all that crud.

If you're in a hall it's all strangers, yes, but there are dozens or hundreds of you rather than 4 or 5 in a house as a single unit.

Usually it's strangers in the uni flats too, at least in first year. Then, from second year onwards you're left to find your own flatmates.

[scooterscot]

Remember: only users lose drugs.

I use aspirin.

[doodab]

Haven't you read this thread? Neither the OP or MF is talking about a university 'halls' flat, where problem people would be speedily dealt with. Going to be a fresher in a university-managed housing block is exactly the kind of thing I'm supporting, to avoid everyone having to be as grown up as you apparently were, to avoid dealing with landlords and all that crud.

If you're in a hall it's all strangers, yes, but there are dozens or hundreds of you rather than 4 or 5 in a house as a single unit.

All I did was point out that it's quite normal not to know anyone in the first year. You were the one who decided that living in halls at a "proper uni" was somehow different than living in a house or flat.

[TykeMerc]

UPDATE (if anyone's interested)
- the landlord has given the scrote notice to F.O. and scrote will be moving out within the week

So the landlord saw the sense in having 2 normal people in the house rather than one ars-hole

I hope it pans out like this, result. with luck the next flatmate is decent. Glad the landlord acted decisively and sensibly.

[d000hg]

Usually it's strangers in the uni flats too, at least in first year. Then, from second year onwards you're left to find your own flatmates.

Duh.

All I did was point out that it's quite normal not to know anyone in the first year. You were the one who decided that living in halls at a "proper uni" was somehow different than living in a house or flat.

Yes, that's because it is.

[NigelJK]

Glad the landlord acted in an admirably Capitalist way..

FTFY

[SueEllen]

UPDATE (if anyone's interested)

I'll know more later, but, as I understand it

- statements given to the police
- student union are totally useless and ineffective
- the landlord has given the scrote notice to F.O. and scrote will be moving out within the week

So the landlord saw the sense in having 2 normal people in the house rather than one ars-hole

Thanks for the replies and advice, and also for an entertaining sideshow. If my thread can claim any credit for getting OH banned, I consider it a matter of public service and it was my pleasure to have helped

Good result - I hoped the landlord would see sense.

Landlords of student properties know they may have to get involved in these types of issues.