Hi y'all, so just a quick one...
I live with my landlady as a lodger (no written contract necessary), and am recently unemployed (25 days). I haven't found work yet and my landlady is getting paranoid that, because I'm still unemployed after 3 weeks, I won't be able to pay the rent in January. So she's asked me to pay it upfront with December's rent.
Now I'd like to respectfully refuse that request as I feel it's completely discriminatory and unfair of her to ask me to pay double rent when nobody else in the house has to based solely on the fact that I'm currently unemployed. I've tried to assure her that I have more than enough savings to cover the rent in the event that I don't find a job within the next six months even, but I work in an industry where it's fairly easy to find a job so that won't be an issue (truth be told I've been enjoying being a slob these past few weeks as I haven't had more than a week off at a time in the last seven years or so!).
But I just wanted some advice as to whether I'm obliged to actually pay the double rent given that I don't actually have a written contract, or whether I'm within my rights to respectfully refuse her request?
Submitted December 01, 2019 at 06:33PM by haxorjimduggan https://ift.tt/2rHna5Q
