Advice Needed - Student Son's housemate threatening violence !

[Paddy]

Buy your son a mini video recorder and take the evidence to the police

[mudskipper]

If it's anything like my daughter's setup, they rent the house between them and pay 1/3 each - they're not renting individual rooms separately. If it's like that, the landlord is unlikely to care whether or not they're getting along as long as the rent gets paid. They're unlikely to find someone else to take the room after the start of term, and it's a 12 month agreement. Difficult to see how to resolve it unless the landlord is sympathetic.

[Pondlife]

Useful linky below

Joint tenancies - Shelter England

[stek]

Plant drugs, tip off Police...

[SueEllen]

It doesn't. One of my brother son's was getting bullied at school. They went through all the channels and nothing. My brother went around the boys house and beat the tulip out of the father, and told him he'd do it every time his son bullied my brothers. It stopped overnight.

Violence is all this pricks understand. As much as that might sound daft, it's unfortunately true; make it very clear that's what the deal is, do a good enough job, and he wont be back.

The "little" boy's mother will just ensure her son goes to the police and the son and the other housemate will get at least cautioned by the police. She has gone to the police already so don't expect her to change her tune.

[RedSauce]

If he is at uni then I am guessing he is at least 18, so tell him to get a can of man-up and deal with it himself and not go running to mummy and daddy.

[SueEllen]

If it's anything like my daughter's setup, they rent the house between them and pay 1/3 each - they're not renting individual rooms separately. If it's like that, the landlord is unlikely to care whether or not they're getting along as long as the rent gets paid. They're unlikely to find someone else to take the room after the start of term, and it's a 12 month agreement. Difficult to see how to resolve it unless the landlord is sympathetic.

Yep really depends on the landlord.

Hopefully the landlord or their partner is a builder, as they don't take sh*t.

[SueEllen]

If he is at uni then I am guessing he is at least 18, so tell him to get a can of man-up and deal with it himself and not go running to mummy and daddy.

So if someone threatens you with violence you don't inform any of your family?

[MaryPoppins]

So if someone threatens you with violence you don't inform any of your family?

Don't feed the twattish trolls Suze.

[doodab]

Anyone been in this situation? Any landlords out there?

Only 2 weeks into a joint tenancy (3 students sharing a house) one of the tenant's antisocial behaviour has already reached the stage where there are threats of violence and the police have become involved, e.g. "it's your turn to do the washing up" escalated to the problem person getting a mate round threatening to do violence to the other two (my son and one other), and his mother reporting my son and the other to the police for bullying

My advice to my son was involve (1) Police, (2) Landlord, (3) Student's Union

Anyone got any other or better (legal) suggestions?

Take the dirty washing up and put it in his bed.