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Question Title: Landlord's affair with a tenant
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| Could you please advise us on a problem that we have never come across before. One of our landlords lets a house to four people on individual assured shorthold tenancies. Three of the tenants feel that the landlord does not allow them the right to quiet enjoyment of their home as he has developed a relationship with the fourth tenant. He now visits the property on a daily basis and on many occasions stays the night. Can a landlord perform a dual role and act on one hand in his capacity as a landlord to three tenants, giving twenty four hours notice before he visits the house in an official capacity, yet on the other hand visit the house on a daily basis as the guest of the tenant with whom he is having a relationship?
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| The basic answer is yes he can. When invited by one of the tenants he enters the property as a bare licensee (as a guest of the tenant) and his actions are limited by that. Therefore, he would not, for example, be within his rights, whilst in the house as the tenant's guest, to make comment on the general untidyness of the house. It is an issue for the individual tenant. If he is to act, as it were, with his landlord's hat on, he would need to give notice as described in your question or he would be in breach of the tenants' right to quiet enjoyment of the property. It is a matter between the three tenants and the tenant inviting the landlord to stay.
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