I’m currently living in a very nice apartment.
However, I found out that a housemate has been secretly renting out one of the recently vacated rooms to prostitutes and their clients (i.e. operating a "love hotel" type business). I believe this has been going on for 1 to 2 weeks.
I don’t want to go into details about how I found out (to preserve anonymity), but point is that I found out.
I’ve told the landlord, who has instructed her to stop using the room for prostitutes. As far as I know, these services have stopped. The housemate and I now actively ignore each other, and I think it’s pretty obvious that I was the snitch.
Here’s my problem. I would like this housemate to be evicted immediately. I obviously feel pretty uncomfortable sharing a home someone who was running a brothel out of the place where I eat, shower and sleep. However, the landlord is dragging his feet on evicting her immediately. The reason is to avoid end up losing money on an empty room while finding a tenant to replace her.
After reading the tenancy laws, I found out that there are sufficient grounds to evict this housemate immediately (for using the premises for illegal activities). Hence, I could involve the authorities to make the landlord evict them immediately. However, my lease ends in a month and I think if I did this, he would just not renew my lease.
I would really like to stay at my current place.
So how should I approach him? Do I try to work out a middle ground, bite my tongue or something else?
UPDATE
Thanks for the responses everyone.
The LL said that she will be leaving by a particular date. However, I'm not celebrating until her crap is out on the street and her keys are on the dining table.
There's some expectation on me to help find replacements. Anyone interested in a room which may or may not have been used for certain services?
In the meantime, I will be sanitizing the common areas and appliances including the washing machine. And until she leaves, I'm going to just hope I don't get stabbed or poisoned.
On the brightside, youve already got a stack of towels at the ready. and you can probably save on internet bandwidth by just thinking about the room.
Reads like another 'living in canberra' story.
Im happy youve resolved this and updated your post with the outcome. thank you.