My landlady says I can't keep my bike in the house.

Apparently incase there's a fire and we need to get out, it could cause an obstruction. But I don't really see this happening, seeing as it's kept in the corner of my bedroom. It isn't in the contract I can't, just says no motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts are to be kept inside. I've been ignoring her seeing as my bike isn't covered by insurance if I keep it outside at night but I'm pretty sure she will at some point find out, does anyone know what are her rights if she does? Presuming I can just refuse to move it outside seeing as it isn't in the contract?

stick a bedsheet on it

tell her its a cooker

Does the landlady live on-site with you? You basically have almost no rights if you're in a lodger/share-with-owner situation, even if you have a contract of sorts.

Nah it's a student house, she doesn't live there. I did think of covering it but not sure it'd be convincing. Mostly worried about when she starts showing prospective tenants round in a couple of months, when I went to look round the tenants didn't seem to know there were viewings that day.

She is bullshitting you, tell her it's an artistic clothes airer if she continues to moan.

tell her it's tough knackers, unless she wants to build you a garage

I don't think she can take it out of the house

well she has to give you 24hrs befor letting herself in does this aply to showing round new tennants ??
like the artistic washing hanger idea

A landlord cannot enter your room/house without 24 hours notice, unless specified otherwise in your contract. Applies to all situations, whether its for viewings or not.

what they said

ta darrrrr there you go 24hr notice lock it befor she get there, thankyou Konijn

If it's not obstructing a passage way then she can't do anything about it... apart from trying to make your life miserable.

She's probably worried about you knackering all the walls as you take it in/out of the building, maybe try and reason with her/get her onside?

If it's not in the contract that you can't keep a bike on the premises I don't think you have an issue. She may of course decide not to renew your lease but you won't be in breach of contract so you're fine until then.

My contract says I am not allowed to keep pedal cycles in the flat but I had five at last count.

What I said assumes that tepoztlan has an individual contract with the landlady/lock on their bedroom door, and isn't on a shared lease? If its a shared lease then the landlady could still look in the room if she turned up randomly and was allowed into the house by one of the other housemates. So I guess if that's the case make sure all housemates know the drill.

Cheers Konijn, it is a shared lease though which is why the 24hr thing is kinda shaky, I'll have a word with the housemates but they're all a bit uh, useless to say the least. Just wondered mostly whether she can do anything if she finds the bike in the house. I wouldn't be super impressed if I arrived home to find it left unlocked in the garden, or if she tried to terminate my lease because of it.

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she's a women, tell her to get back in the kitchen!

Tactical quote. And reported.

I'm a girl. Ah.

she's a women, tell her to get back in the kitchen!

You're an idiot and should fuck off back to your village.

If its not in the contract then she cant dictate what your are allowed inside now - i mean where would it stop! she is trying it on cos she thinks it will mark the walls etc - of course if you do mark the walls kiss your deposit bye...
She cant enter the property to show tenents round without prior consent from you just because your students, it does nt mean you are a different kind of tenent ie 2nd class...
But tact is probably the best way forward here. Good luck!

Totally agree with the 'tact' issue... but having shared flats/houses for years and been totally bored with the agro of bikes blocking the common parts... if your bike is kept in the common parts it's very likely to be a grown up issue with the lease and building insurance, and you're stuffed.

That's a technical legal term I believe.

Speaking from personal experience, do not give in.
I was in a similar situation in my first year at uni living in halls. The company that owned the halls said that I was not allowed to keep my bike in my room because it was a fire hazard. Instead I was supposed to put it in the "secure" bike parking area in the garage. This "secure" area turned out to be nothing more than a padlocked cage with a bike rack in it, still I begrudgingly put my bike in there.
A few weeks later the garage door mechanism broke and whilst waiting for it to be fixed they decided it would be more convenient for all if it was left open. Sure enough within 2 days every single car in the garage had been broken in to and 3 bikes were gone including mine.
The company that managed the halls refused to claim any responsability and I was out £1200 worth of bike.

Moral of the story, keep your bike in your room no matter what they tell you!!!

its not a bike, its just a bike shaped object

I had this, but then I had a landlord and he soon glossed over it after a lot batting of the eyelashes.
I would advise being nice as pie and getting her onside, but mostly try and hide the bike from her when possible.
If you get busted, give it the sob story about not affording public transport etc, and offer to repaint the walls if there are any scrapes if that's what she's worried about, and you promise to keep it out the way. Then make her a nice cuppa and everyone's happy.
Good luck!

she's a women, tell her to get back in the kitchen!

Fucknuckle.
And an illiterate one at that.

That attitude isn't welcome here buddy. By here I'm mean 2010.