Lewi

Thought it better to sign up. 😀 You only have to get an HMO is you have 3 bedrooms that do not have their own bath/toilet facilities and you want to rent to 3 sharers on an official lease who are not related to each other (family) or in a relationship. Not sure about the kitchen being shared, but the fire regs are all post-Grenfell. Lots of landlords just pulled their properties from 3 bdr sharers market and called them 2 bdr with a 'study'. at a higher rent than a 2 bedroom flat with an eg 'box' room? I don't know how that worked. Especially if you use an agency. I guess if you have a lease that only shows two unrelated tenants on it, then I don't know if the tenants would be responsible for it if they bring their own third person in to live in the 'study'. Would the landlord be ultimately responsible for knowing a third person was 'living' there? Anyways, thanks for the link. I have printed out the spec sheets on that one. Looks much more affordable. Will see if there is enough overlap of the top of the door against the beam to let the two parts meet and magneti-ify. Will let you know down the line if we go this way in the future in case someone else has a similar problem. 👍