Christian, As long as none of you signed anything( if you did it would be classed as a resident Landlord agreement) If your agreement was verbal only then your Tenant is nothing more than a Lodger and has no legal rights to remain in your property if you have asked them to leave. You have already given a reasonable period of notice to leave therefore you have been very fair.

Your options
1, Change the locks and give them notice to collect their belongings.

2, You could call the police and inform them of the situation that you have asked them to leave and they still refuse and you want them out today, they will assist as it will be classed as trespassing.

Both options are drastic so be sure of your friendship before you go down this route.

Hope this helps.

I am renting out a room in my own house (I live there too) to someone that I know quite well and therefore decided not to have a written contract. Things haven’t been working out and I decided that I would rather live on my own. I told my friend in December that it would be better if she moved out by the end of February (I thought 2 months notice was reasonable). Now she says that she needs to stay a while longer because she has no job and it would be difficult for her to find another room elsewhere. I said she could stay another 10 days but she wants to stay longer.

What can I do? Do I have any rights to make her leave? Also, considering that she has consistently paid rent late…
Many thanks

http://www.communities.gov.uk
6.2 What does the landlord have to do if he or she wants me to leave when the fixed term of a shorthold tenancy has ended?
The landlord must give you at least 2 months’ notice that he or she requires possession. The landlord can give you notice at any time during the fixed term, but the date he or she states possession is required CANNOT be before the end of the fixed term. If the tenancy is on a contractual period or statutory periodic basis, the date on which the notice expires must be the LAST (please note not the day before)day of a tenancy period,
and the notice must state that possession is required under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988.
Hope you find this usefull.

The Landlord knows exactly who KK121 is as he is the site owner and has the sign up information! Where does it say that KK works for a company that gives advice for free?????

Who gets paid for their advice “huney”? I don’t, and that is my whole point. If you are a landlord who takes the rent but is not prepared to put their hand in their pocket to get ratified legal advice as pert of their business then frankly you should not be a landlord1 OK everyone wants to get something for nothing – even me BUT, as I have stated before, if the landlord (or tenant) wants advice to take into court and then rely on the information given, they need to go to a bone fide solicitor or other housing professional who has the indemnities in place to protect against a charge of professional misconduct.

Anyone can join these forums, including you Lisa, but like everyone else, we do not know who you are. You SAY you have a legal degree and 3 professional affiliations – but no one here can verify that! You say judges are not wrong. Well what is the appeal court for? OK – not all judges get it wrong but some do. The Magistrate who is more likely to oversee the case is normally not legally trained and comes from the community. Everyone is fallible. If I am wrong I am man enough to admit it but only, ONLY when I am proved wrong by someone who’s bone fides I can verify.

This forum is doing EXACTLY what it should be doing – encouraging debate amongst Landlords and Tenants – not everyone is going to be impressed with what is said but if you can’t take critisism then perhaps you should not visit again?

TB