My tenant is asking if they can have a guest in the house for 4 months

[Sohrab Khosravi]

Hi BP nation,

I have a question about one of my rentals. I rent a 4 bedroom house to 3 collage student in the past. They also have a cosigner on file. Last week, they asked me that one of their family members visiting from Denmark for the summer for a school program, however, he is not happy with a family he was placed with. Since they have an extra bedroom they asked if he can stay with them and he will be there until the end of august.

Now I want to know what should I do let him stay. Do I need any paperwork.

To be honest, they could just ask him to come without telling me and hope we do not find out.

Please help me with this problem.I know we have a lot of experienced land lord on this awesome website.

Thank you

[Jeff Rabinowitz]

Originally posted by @Sohrab Khosravi:

To be honest, they could just ask him to come without telling me and hope we do not find out.

It seems to me that you have some good tenants who want to be fair with you. I would be inclined to reciprocate and allow them to use the extra room for their guest. It would be prudent to draw up an agreement that spells out the length of time the guest will be staying and that they must abide by the terms of the current lease. You may want to charge a reasonable fee for the additional lease. When the additional rent is paid each month it will be evidence that the agreement was clear and was accepted. This could be important if the additional tenant decides to stay for a much longer period of time or you wish to remove them for non compliance with other lease terms.