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    kentonscott37 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Jan 23, 2012, 04:37 PM
    Occupancy Laws?
    My girlfriend has let me stay with her for 7 days because I'm moving from Seattle to Bellinham for a new job. I'm not on the lease and the lease agreement states that you should have no visitors over 5 days. Her roommate is being difficult and calling the landlord and stating she doesn't want me to stay anymore. I have 3 more days till I move into my new place. The land lord called my girlfriend and said I had to be out tomorrow morning. His agreement was five days... he stayed 7 days... left back to seattle for 3 days and came back. Does he get 5 more days? Can a roommate dictate who I can have over to my home, especially my Fiancˇ?

    Is my boyfriend trespassing when he has my express consent to be in my home?
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    Jan 23, 2012, 04:46 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by kentonscott37;
    Occupancy Laws?
    My girlfriend has let me stay with her for 7 days because I'm moving from Seattle to Bellinham for a new job. I'm not on the lease and the lease agreement states that you should have no visitors over 5 days. Her roommate is being difficult and calling the landlord and stating she doesn't want me to stay anymore. I have 3 more days till I move into my new place. The land lord called my girlfriend and said I had to be out tomorrow morning. His agreement was five days...he stayed 7 days...left back to seattle for 3 days and came back. Does he get 5 more days? Can a roommate dictate who I can have over to my home, especially my FiancŽ?

    Is my boyfriend trespassing when he has my express consent to be in my home?
    First... that place is every bit as much her roommates as it is your girlfriends. If she don't like it she can rent her own place by herself after the lease expires.

    And besides, like it or not, the landlord has a final say because your girlfriend was violating the terms of the lease.

    Incidentally... this wasn't YOUR home in the first place.

    What's wrong with renting a hotel room? Even a cheap one. Or is this about mooching or a perceived right to mooch, because this does inconvenience her roommate, in her own home (remember SHE has a right to live there, not you). In many ways.

    And yes... if you have roommates... they can and in fact do have the right to say something and even prevent it if they don't like it... welcome to the real world.

    Just wait until its one of YOUR roommates doing something you don't like and see how fast you change your tune.

    Personaly a friend is bad enough... but a friend of a friend... you should consider yourself lucky. I'd have called the cops if the boyfriend wasn't gone the next day

    Besides read what YOU stated.(the highlighted bits)... your friend let you stay... ITS NOT YOUR HOUSE.....ITS NOT YOUR HOME....YOU can't give any third party any consent to stay in the house of another.... Yes he IS trespassing.

    No clock resets... your boyfriend doesn't get a free ride... the roommate doesn't want him there, YOU can't say anything about it... don't like it go rent a hotel.
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    Jan 23, 2012, 04:48 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by kentonscott37 View Post

    Is my boyfriend trespassing when he has my express consent to be in my home?
    You signed the lease agreeing to THOSE terms. So yes, it rules.
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    Jan 23, 2012, 05:08 PM
    I hope your girlfriend is moving with you, since the landlord can evict her for violation of the lease, That is what the warning is about.

    The other room mate has full rights to complain when the other room mate is breaking the terms of the lease.

    Your girlfriend and it appears you are aware of the terms of the lease, and you decided to violate it. So you suffer and will cause her to suffer because of it.
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    Jan 23, 2012, 05:12 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by tickle View Post
    You signed the lease agreeing to THOSE terms. So yes, it rules.
    THis gets even better if you take a look at the parts I highlighted... this isn't even the posters apartment... but she's bent she can't invite a guest as a guest. Because one of the two REAL rent paying tenants doesn't like it.
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    Jan 23, 2012, 05:52 PM
    I like the way you start your question as him and end it as her. Which one of you is asking?

    Obviously you are clueless about annoying people, and just insisting on technicalities about starting the 5 days over again 3 days after you go away, good grief. Maybe when you get your apartment I should stay for a while. Hog the bathroom, eat your food, sprawl on your couch and watch your favorite shows, track mud in on my deep tread boots, play loud music, leave dishes unwashed - and let YOU pay the rent and utilities.

    Do The Right Thing. Go rent a room and go buy a few bags of groceries or some pizza gift certificates, and thank the other roommate for the accommodations.
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    Jan 23, 2012, 05:53 PM
    Wow - can't believe my eyes! The lease states no guests over 5 days. A lease is a contract so there's no negotiation at this point.

    The roommate is paying her share... and sharing an apartment with your girlfriend AND you. I'd be aggravated on those grounds alone.

    I think the landlord should evict your girlfriend AND pursue her for rent for the balance of the lease. That's what I would do - and, yes, I'm a landlord.

    I find it remarkably odd that this starts as "My girlfriend has let me stay with her.. " and continues with "and (land)lord called my girlfriend " but then says, "His agreement was five days... he stayed 7 days... left back to seattle for 3 days and came back. Does he get 5 more days? Can a roommate dictate who I can have over to my home, especially my Fiancˇ?" and the clincher - "Is my boyfriend trespassing when he "

    So - who is posting? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? And why not tell the truth on an anonymous website?
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    Jan 23, 2012, 06:03 PM
    Be glad this wasn't a place I was a tenant of... I'd put a beating on anyone I find in my house that I didn't agree to allow to be there. And a double butt whooping if they started telling me about how they had a right to be there... Invite someone to stay in MY house visiting and I find a guy in there at 3am I didn't personally invite in... the coroner will be called to identify the body.

    Look up the Castle doctrine...

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