AIBU to think that wanting a female only tenant is a bit strange?

[FruitTwist2017]

He is advertising as only wanting a female tenant? Isn't that a bit odd? It's a really good price.

What problems do women over 40 cause in house shares lottie or is it just that there weren't any?

So what I'd do is look at it, ask the landlord why women and, listen to your gut feeling.

That's one of the best lessons tenants taught me. You might not know what the problem is going to be but if you can sense that there is one, you will find out.

Well Barbara... My sample of over-40s was small and the nightmare one was a man. To generalise, I'd say people can get more set in their ways and less good at sharing.

Based on my own prejudices I wouldn't rent a room in a house share to myself - and this would be a very sensible decision.

But actually, I'm not offering a proposal for future action, I'm describing past experience. There are always exceptions. Gut feeling goes a long way.

This is a part of the ad for creepy man.

Many Asian and Indian land ladies will only hire to single women if they want to collect rent in cash. Doubly so if it's a flat in a house (like some London/Birmingham houses are).

but a man specifying that he wanted a female lodger? Odd.

I can kind of see it if I squint. Men get sexually assaulted too. His chances of being sexually assaulted by a female are significantly smaller than by a male.

I wouldn't touch his ad with a barge pole, mind.

Did I hallucinate the part about £100 (way hey!) going to someone who weighs < 8 stone and is prepared to sit in a wheelchair for 12 hours?

😭😭😭

My ex-landlady would only have female tenants, on grounds of mess and behaviour. I do see her point.

Yeah, with a female landlady, I'd see why.

With a male it does seem slightly creepy, though.

My mom rents out one of her bedrooms and her advert specifies she wants males only.She lives alone and apparently she just wouldn't feel comfortable having another female in the house....?

WTF. Was she beaten up by a group of female teens once, or something?

If not, show her the statistics. A man is more likely to assault her than to protect her from a burglar. (And a burglar is rather unlikely, anyawy)

Or is she worried she might be seen as lesbian if she lived with another woman?

In that case, though, I'd not want to live with a male, either.

"Toilet crimes"

When i rented it was the blokes that were better :)

I rented to uni students and the girls always had their rent paid straight from daddy's bank account, and weren't too bothered about their deposit. Never had any real damage, they were just untidy, and often would half heartedly try to interior design the place and i'd find curtains taken down etc. I had one who asked if they could repaint, i agreed, they got as far as loads of paint testers all over the walls then gave up.

Boys paid for themselves (well out of their own accounts at least), kept the place tidy, and as they left it. One even repainted everything in plain white after the above paint tester disaster in return for a rent discount.

Your women, if typical student age, would have fitted my 'young, self-absorbed' category, reallyanotherone. I found that women got much better with age. Men possibly worse - less eager to please, more confidently selfish, hmm!

Unexpected interior 'decoration' wallpaper was involved.

So yeah, I can understand an advert for a female tenant, if it follows that landlord's experience of relative care and responsibility.

The only time I did advertise for a female tenant, to share with an existing woman tenant who'd expressed that preference, I, of course, had one or two men ring up telling me they didn't think I could do that. Could, did.

This just smells of hidden cameras in bathroom and bedroom....

This just smells of hidden cameras in bathroom and bedroom....

You best me to it.

Beat me to it, rather.

Nope. I think it's fine. Men are smelly and wee everywhere. If I didn't have a DH I'd advertise for a female roomy lol

.

No, I don't think it is that weird. Men are more liable to be violent. A landlord stands a slightly better chance of a tenancy working out with a female tenant. Of course, the landlord could also be a total creep!

Is it a flat share where the other tenants are women ? And it's pitched as a female let ?