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Advice Needed - Student Son's housemate threatening violence !
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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.Comment
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostIt 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."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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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.Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostIf 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.
Hopefully the landlord or their partner is a builder, as they don't take sh*t."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by RedSauce View PostIf 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."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostSo if someone threatens you with violence you don't inform any of your family?Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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Originally posted by Platypus View PostAnyone 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?While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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