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I have rented rooms from people for years, and never had a problem until now. The landlady with whom I lived wanted to raise my rent $200.00 after only 10 months, although, she told me after I moved in that she had wanted $200.00 more but didn't get any responses.
So 10 months later I paid my rent and the next day she told me she needed to raise my rent. I told her that I am officially giving her my notice to leave. Later that evening she says, "Let's give it a couple of months". I did not know what she meant, and was still stunned and upset to ask. I thought she might be reconsidering. I asked her again a couple of weeks later and she said yes to raising my rent. I said I don't know if I can find a place in 10 days. She wrote me a note a couple of days later, saying she didn't like the tension in the house and wanted me out sooner than later. I paid rent on the 15th; she wrote the note on the 6th. Her note acknowledged that I paid up to the 15th and implied that I could stay until the 4th, or 21 days, at $25.00 a day. Since I did not want to stay there a day longer or pay her a dime more, I was determined to find a place, and I did and got out by the 14th.
I left her a note stating the facts, as I knew them. She expected me to stay and pay the amount she demanded in her note, that did not add up correctly to what I paid in rent, which is another reason I needed to leave. When I told her I was leaving, she flipped out and, characteristically, has kept my room deposit, claiming that I owe her money for leaving.
She told me she spoke with a lawyer who says as a lodger I don't have the same rights as a tenant- who does not live with the owner of the house. I read that if a landlord plans to raise a tenant's rent over 10%, she needs to put it in writing and give the tenant 2 months notice, that is 2 months of the same rent. I gave her 30 days notice and left within 30 days.
Can anyone offer any truth regarding lodger vs. tenant rights?
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