HMO and tenants keys?

Question

I'm moving out at the moment and replacing the share in the house, it is becoming difficult and one of the tenants is not giving me the key back even though i still pay rent it this legal to do this? It doesn't help the landlord isn't interested and tells me to sort it out even though the tenant is threatening me what can i do?

Answer 1

If you are still paying rent then no, but I'm not quite sure which keys you are referring to, do you mean the front door key or your room key, either way, how has the other tenant got the key if its yours?

The landlord really needs to sort this as I assume you pay the rent to the landlord and not one of the other tenants, in which case it is the landlords responsibility.

Good luck

Answer 2

How is this tenant threatening you? If this tenant is threatening you, call the police! Pay someone to change the locks and give the landlord a set of keys. You might also put the situation in writing and send it to the landlord by certified mail - return receipt requested. This will be your proof that you attempted to get the landlord to resolve the issue, he refused, so you took action yourself.  

Answer 3

Whilst I don't know your situation, it sounds similar to something I experienced in the past.  I lived in a shared flat and was moving out.  Even though I was really leaving immediately, I had paid rent to cover the next six weeks and assumed that this meant that I was entitled to retain the keys.  However one of the tenants threatened me (both physically and also by threatening to clear my bank account) so I went to the police, and the police informed me that I was in the wrong - apparently once you've moved out, even if you have paid rent you no longer have the right to stay there once you have "vacated the property".

Note that this was a shared flat, not a designated HMO.  In an HMO, though, each tenant is responsible to the landlord only and not to each other.  So I'm not sure why you are dealing with this tenant.  Why is the landlord not resolving any problems?

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