Last year I have moved into a flat (right now the flat has 5 people in it, including myself) with the original head tenant dating the landlord (or maybe partial landlord of the house) - she was not living in the house. In time the original head tenant and the landlord had relationship problems and ended up breaking up, which forced the original head tenant to move out and another flat mate being appointed as the head tenant (I personally have not seen any documentation regarding this).
Anywho...
One night, the newly appointed head tenant, got drunk and decided to enter my room (in which I was sleeping) whilst the music was blasting at around 2 am in the morning (he has an aggressive personality and a quick temper, and can use this to try and intimidate people). Upon awakening I escorted him out of my room and he did not like it - I didn't use excessive force, start punching him or whatever (even though I was quite angry at him at the time), just grabbed him by his arm and told him to leave my room, then closed my room door after. He got really angry, punched a hole in my rooms door and when I came out to talk to him he decided to get in my face trying to get me to punch him, ect ect basically instigating the whole situation (saying that he will 'evict me out' if I decide to punch him). I decided not to fight him or do anything violent because things like that only complicate matters further. In his defense though, after thinking it through he was probably trying to jump on my bed when I was sleeping in it thinking it would be funny - being drunk probably reinforced this further. Needless to say this incident left an indent in our flatting situation, eg. tension/awkward when talking to each other, even after both saying sorry to each other. Since it happened though I have made a little bit of an effort to talk to him (just small talk) but other than that just kept to myself and did my own thing. I have to say that he has eased up slightly on his drinking (he's 22 by the way and I am 25) but at the time it was terrible.
Onto now...
Most of the flatmates were home today and we decided to watch a movie. We picked a movie, I put it on computer and we started to watch it. He proceeds to say that he has seen the movie and that his real friends would put a movie on that he has not seen before. I told him to stop such a whiny b_tch and that it's just a movie, no big deal. Oh boy, that set him off into a fiery rage lol I swear his eyes were about to pop out of his head with all the yelling and he was gonna explode on me. I kept talking to him in a lowered tone, I think that might also got to him because he wasn't getting a reaction out of me...... Anyway, by the end of it he grabbed his beers, slammed a few doors and told me that I have 4 weeks notice to leave the flat.
What are my options at this stage? Should I contact the landlord and talk to her about it?
Of course I can leave the flat, but I like it. Rent is good, pretty chilled out flatties (apart from the obvious)...
Any advice is appreciated friends
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