Reply to: Advice Needed - Student Son's housemate threatening violence !

[AtW]

It will soon be 24

Not if the mods get bored again ...

[doodab]

How is this thread 23 pages?

You have very small pages? I only have 12.

[doodab]

A university managed flat or house tends to be university managed accommodation that the university doesn't own i.e. they manage it for the landlord.

University halls whether they are catered or non-catered and whether they are houses, flats or floors are both owned and managed by the university.

Now stop fighting.

At my university there were traditional "halls of residence" with rooms on long corridors, blocks of flats owned by the university (some of which were also referred to as halls) and various houses owned by the university (though no doubt some have done a sale and leaseback or similar so don't technically own it). It is the latter two that I am referring to as "university managed accommodation".

Now stay out of our fight

[SueEllen]

How is this thread 23 pages?

It will soon be 24

[scooterscot]

Seriously

How is this thread 23 pages?

[SueEllen]

Not really. When it's a university managed house or flat the main difference is that you don't have a bar and unlike the catered halls you don't get your cooking and washing up done for you.

A university managed flat or house tends to be university managed accommodation that the university doesn't own i.e. they manage it for the landlord.

University halls whether they are catered or non-catered and whether they are houses, flats or floors are both owned and managed by the university. In one of the universities I attended some of the university owned and managed accommodation didn't have a bar due to it's location.

Now stop fighting.

[doodab]

Duh.

Yes, that's because it is.

Not really. When it's a university managed house or flat the main difference is that you don't have a bar and unlike the catered halls you don't get your cooking and washing up done for you.

[SueEllen]

As am MP?

qh

Yep though the ones I met ended up in a variety of professions including investment banker (though they "supported" Labour or the Greens as a student) and professional lobbyist.

[quackhandle]

The reason they do it is to get a better job afterwards.

As an MP?

qh

[SueEllen]

Not a surprise, unless your planning to vote for them at next SU election - IIRC don't they get a wage for being a Union officer? - they don't give a crap.


Good result, though.

qh

The reason they do it is to get a better job afterwards.

[quackhandle]

UPDATE - student union are totally useless and ineffective

Not a surprise, unless your planning to vote for them at next SU election - IIRC don't they get a wage for being a Union officer? - they don't give a crap.


Good result, though.

qh

[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.

[NigelJK]

Glad the landlord acted in an admirably Capitalist way..

FTFY

[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.

[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.