You've been doing amazing at handling all of it but yeah, it's hard. You have some lovely restful holiday time on the other side of it, though. Just have to get through this tunnel of crap!
And of course, rather than the regulations ACTUALLY making life safer for people in shared housing, it just means that the only people willing to rent to sharers are the dumb and the unscrupulous. Grr.
It's more the clause in the contract saying (approximately) "The information I have given is true to the best of my knowledge and belief." If you give false information and are found out, that's a breach of contract. The usual aftermath of that is "thanks very much, goodbye NOW, no please don't ask for your deposit back."
Actually I did check up about that with the council, as we are a polyamorous group and do consider ourselves to be intentional family, and as such a single household. Apparently changes in the law as of 2004 preclude us being able to say so for more than two people, which I'm not too happy about. (Although the law does also say that we are able to consider live-in household staff as members of our household. Now that's a thought...)
E's suggestion was to make a DVD to take in to the council offices. "Yes, we're all in sexual relationships with each other, here's video evidence. NOW will you consider us a household?"
Also considering changing all of our last names to 'of Joy' by deed poll to imply that we're a family without actually having to give false information.
We can't afford separate apartments for all of us though, sadly it completely defeats the purpose of house sharing. :(
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And of course, rather than the regulations ACTUALLY making life safer for people in shared housing, it just means that the only people willing to rent to sharers are the dumb and the unscrupulous. Grr.
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E's suggestion was to make a DVD to take in to the council offices. "Yes, we're all in sexual relationships with each other, here's video evidence. NOW will you consider us a household?"
Also considering changing all of our last names to 'of Joy' by deed poll to imply that we're a family without actually having to give false information.
We can't afford separate apartments for all of us though, sadly it completely defeats the purpose of house sharing. :(
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Sounds like the staff option might work. Would doing some work for E’s company do the trick? Or you could dress B up as a butler and A up as a maid...
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