Q: renting a property with no lease in Sarasota FL, there’s 5 people with landlord “R” and his mothers name on house.
“R” lives here too.We’ve been having issues with his parents coming and going when they please screaming at us because there’s dishes in the sink or whatnot, we keep this house pretty spotless everyone that comes here compliments how clean it is. They have come with 0 warning to do stuff around the house and have literally made us leave our rooms with no prior warning to do work on them. Here’s our MAIN issue though. We found out a few days ago that “R”s brother has a key. We’ve expressed we do not want him in our house at all because we’ve watched him go in our fridge and steal our food, he looks in peoples rooms (“R” admitted this when we asked multiple times saying our doors had been opened) and will badmouth us where we can hear it on purpose. We also have a female living here are are uncomfortable with him having a key. We expressed our concerns and they told us basically to deal with it because his brother is their family and he can come and go as he pleases. Anything we can do?
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This is garbage. None of these people have any right to barge in, and R's brother should not have a key or least should not use it unless there is a bona fide, "call 911" type emergency. Of course, you have no lease so its a question of whether you are really renting or just staying there.
This is a nonsensical way to live. If you want to live with a multiple of roommates (there's all kinds of issues with that living arrangement, but you do you) then rent a house from a landlord who has no relationship with any of the renters, and rent it on a real lease with everybody who lives there on the lease. A formal landlord-tenant relationship with a landlord who treats his rentals as a business is a much better way to live because it avoids these kinds of problems.
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