Tenant has changed locks, gone away and left lights on.

[Brightonhome]

New tenant is two months in to a six month let (to be extended after 6 months) No issues before, although he does have a weird habit of leaving all the lights on all the time (the property we let to him is visible from our house). He has a regular job, and it's his electricity bill, but I still find it a bit odd. He has been away for at least a couple of weeks now with all the lights still on. I sent him a nice text asking him if he would mind me going in and turning the lights off (concerned about overheating / electrical problem) I waited for two days with no answer. I then went over there, thinking he may be ill, to discover he has changed the locks (as is his right) but without telling me. As the owner of the property, I feel a bit uneasy about this. Don't I have the right to a set of keys? I would never enter the property without the tenant's consent, but in the case of an emergency, there is nothing I can do without keys. Not sure what to do now re lights. Am I being overly cautious and worried over nothing? I've been letting this property for six years (two different tenants in that time) with absolutely no problems whatsoever. I have always had keys.

[BofAlorsStance]

Cuntychops

[MyKidsHaveTakenMySanity]

Well Narky, it seems that we do need MN police permission, along with our landlord's permission and not forgetting, our insurers.

Perhaps the tenant is just complying with his insurers and is in fact still in the house with his doors locked up tight.

[NarkyMcDinkyChops]

I don't think we need an excuse for saying CUNT, do we? Or permission?

[MissLupescu]

I like the word cunt.

It's a very spot on word to describe some people and their cunty behaviour

[SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed]

I don't think anyone was ' practically bludeoning the Op over the head telling them how awful they are', they just pointed out the fact that letting yourself into someone else's home is illegal, and cunty

The Op sounds like a nice person so I'm sure she wouldn't want to be a law breaking cunt

[DianaMemorialJam]

limited

The whole 'he's stopping people coming in' mentality just screams to me that he's being treated like a child because he's renting. If the situation was 'my neighbours (who own their property) have left their lights on. I have a spare key for emergencies. Should I go and turn them off?'
Everyone would be saying fuck no... Are you mad?!

[limitedperiodonly]

People on MN often say they don't answer the door or the phone if they don't feel like it. Other posters are generally supportive. That's not my way, but it's okay because it's your home. But next time I see one of those threads I'm going to ask the OP if she rents and suggest it could be the landlord coming round to check if the fridge door is properly closed.

[OneWithTheForce]

there is never an excuse for the use of the C word

Fucking loads of excuses! Walking around, getting in my way, being cunts.

[Gallavich]

YOU have to wonder how some people function in life don't you? How someone can type the sentence 'he's obviously trying to stop people getting in' without any sense of wrongness about their thought process...

[NerrSnerr]

What was that about someone being a cunt?

I bloody love the comment about the poor bloke daring to try and stop people getting into his house. How dreadful of him. Maybe he should leave it unlocked next time so people can go in and out switching his lights on and off whenever they like. I also agree with PP- mumsnet is obsessed by cannabis farming. It's the answer to any neighbour thread.

[Gallavich]

Cunt cunt cunt

[DianaMemorialJam]

The mumsnet police are here 🚨🚨🚨

[Squidgems]

Sorry. Ignore last line. Result of poor editing

[Squidgems]

I've only read the first and last few pages of this thread and I can't believe the tone, vitriol and foul language (there is never an excuse for the use of the C word) that some have used in their responses to the Op's genuine request for advice.

Whether the person is or is not in the wrong with their actions, there is no need for this thread to have run to 10 pages in practically bludeoning the Op over the head telling them how awful they are!

I would hope that the moderators will close the thread to further comments as the point of the vast majority of respondents has well and truly been made.

The Op may or may not

[limitedperiodonly]

Is this the place with the lights on?

[HyacinthsBucket]

I think your concern is very kind, well meant and I would also be quite concerned too. To leave every light on is a bit weird, and more than most people would do when they are going away unless there was a power cut before they left!! Was there any sign of post etc to indicate he hasn't been home? Or did you ask the immediate neighbours if they've seen him? If it went past 3 weeks, I'd be tempted to phone 111 and just show concern over the lights and the fact he's not responded to you and see what they advise.

[OneWithTheForce]

how inconsiderate of you to not move out instantly!

[Gallavich]

onewith when I moved into my (rented) house the neighbours immediately started complaining to my letting agents about my terrible crimes, including having a child that made noise in the garden while playing, owning a van and having a partner who was foreign. They even called the police once. Eventually after 3 years of calculatedly hating us from behind their net curtains they sold their house got nice neighbours now and we still here

[OneWithTheForce]

Yes perhaps he'll decide to expand his territory and move on to the other neighbours!

[DianaMemorialJam]

Haha you never know. He might get bored of breaking into your garden and fancy a change of scenery !

[OneWithTheForce]

Yep! I'm hoping he gets so frustrated with me living in my own home that he moves away

[DianaMemorialJam]

One she's lucky then, otherwise no one would touch it with a barge pole eh

[WhiskyIrnBru]

Lord. This makes me so glad my landlord isn't as overly invested in my electricity usage. OP, I think living so close probably clouds your view on it.

[VocalDuck]

My parents came round to my house one evening and got a text message from their neighbour saying she assumed they were away so she had used the spare key they left with her (for emergencies) and gone in to turn some lights on and close the curtains! She has now become a landlord and I really pity the tenant!

[OneWithTheForce]

Not sure about that, I know she would have to disclose if she sold the house but don't think she does if it's a new tenant.