FFS - I just ran the elderly landlord from the house (didn't know he was landlord)

[EvaBING]

And now he has told me I'm going to be evicted!

FFS - my life is a sitcom.

I give up here. The whole thing sounds ridiculous.

OP are you renting legally? Are you sure? It doesn't sound like it - based on reading all your updates too.

EvaBING, your home is a house of multiple occupancy. Therefore you will encounter randomers whenever one of your housemates receives guests.

Topsey - a guest isn't going to ask me WHO I AM.

I have no idea whether I am renting legally. I just know that we paid £1568 to move in here. Into a fucking room. Not a palace. And if I encounter randomers in my house, I WILL ask them who they are!!!!

When did the part where you were threatened with eviction occur?

Into a fucking room. Not a palace. And if I encounter randomers in my house, I WILL ask them who they are!!!!

But it's not your house, is it? You're renting a room in the house, as presumably are others. They - and you - are entitled to have guests over (unless no guests is a condition of the lease) without having to explain themselves or introduce the guests to you.

I used to rent a studio flat in a large house subdivided into studios and one bedrooms. It would never have occurred to me to start demanding introductions/explanations from people I encountered in communal areas of the house, unless I literally caught them in the act of plundering the place.

How many people are sharing the house? Perhaps renting a room in a shared occupancy with strangers is not something you're going to be suited to? Will you have the opportunity to move soon?

There was no bollocking. The threatened with eviction part occurred while the two invaders were outside the front door and the girl was explaining to me that he was the landlord he's not

I don't think you sound unreasonable at all. I think you're right to ask who strange men are in your home, especially as they were clearly not with any of your housemates! Other posters are being unduly harsh...

Having read the whole thread, I definitely think the letting agent needs to clarify why the previous landlord still has access to the property. I second that you should check with land registry that whoever is renting to you is the landlord too.

Wow, if I wasn't sure I was renting legally I'd keep my head down!

What's with the shouting at strangers in what is potentially their property? What happened to politeness?

I didn't fucking demand an introduction. HE asked ME who I was and told me I was going to be evicted!
There were no visitors. Just two men on the landing. Being PO-FUCKING-LITE, I asked them whether they needed help. I was then asked who I was.

Ach. This is the last explanation.

Eva, in a house of multiple occupancy you will encounter randomers, most of whom will be there legitimately.

I thought you said you went out and asked them if you could help, to which they replied by asking who you were. You declined to answer when you could just have said that you were tenant XX.

If you spoke to a guest in such a manner then they may well ask who you were. I would.

As things stand at present, I would be wondering why an apparently previous landlord still had keys to the building. Why were the locks not changed at change of ownership? Or if someone else is letting him in via an entry phone system, they must be stopped.

I agree the scenario sounds quite odd, but I can't help feeling as though I'm reading a different thread to at least half the posters here. "Can I help you?" is quite usual for an opening line when you see someone where they are apparently not supposed to be, don't you think? It's what I'd probably say in the circumstances. To be fair, I'd be likely to answer his "who are you" with "I live here" or "I have recently moved in" before telling him to sling his hook (is that another expression people don't know? I thought "ran him out" was fairly mainstream). I can't see that OP was aggressive.

So you've got an 80-year-old German man who thinks he's still the landlord, inspecting things he presumably has no right to inspect, with a Mexican sidekick and tenants who think he still is the landlord, and an agent who's taken the OP's money on behalf of the real landlord (one hopes)... ok, it's getting weird. But still, as the old man is apparently not in a position to evict anyone - unless the Mexican sidekick is the real one - it's unlikely to be a problem. Er, maybe.

ps Intrigued to know how you discovered the nationality of the sidekick.

This story appears to have changed on several key points since the opening posts.

Clearly I responded to the question. 'i fucking live here' (without the fucking). This was when I was told I would be evicted.

Chuckle. It sounds like you are safe from eviction at least

The thing I want to know is how they got in??!

In MY house op? In MY house I sure would be asking. But the house is not yours and you rent a ROOM in a SHARED house.

And you said very clearly earlier that it was the landlord and his son. Now you're stating that is not the case because one is German and one is Mexican.

Make your mind up!!

That is what is confusing me, PrivatePike.
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I am beginning to wonder whether this is for real at all.

Ps people being in a shared house are not 'invaders'

I think it's just a change of story to look better Topsey

So: Was he the 'son'? (mentioned at 12:31)
or 'The Mexican Sidekick'? (mentioned at 16:21)