You don't need a "relationship model" --- a model represents a table, and you don't have a pivot table for a one-many relationship. So delete that. To retrieve houses of a user, you'd do this:

$user = Users::find($id); /* or however you want to retrieve your user */
$houses = $user->houses;

That's it.

Your relationship methods look fine --- although I would change 'users' to 'user', since only one user owns a house (unless you want to do a many-many relationship, which this isn't).

Also, it's bad practice to have plural models -- most have singular models like "User" and "House", and you might run into some issues there because laravel assumes singular/plural in different situations.

Thanks for reply! So you recommend to delete UsersHouses model and relative table and put user_id into houses table?

Yes, remove the UsersHouses model, but don't put user_id into the Houses table. Use the Laravel pivot table implementation: http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#working-with-pivot-tables

You don't need to have a model for every table, esp when the table itself is just a junction table (pivot table, many-to-many table) and doesn't convey any real meaning other than relationships.

Hi ddimaria, sorry but i still have problems:

when i try to do this

$user = Users::find($id); /* or however you want to retrieve your user */
$houses = $user->houses;

i get the following error

*Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'houses.users_id' in 'where clause' (SQL: select * from houses where houses.users_id = 2) *

Do you have a "houses" method in your User model? You need to setup the relationship there. Once you do that, then your code should work.

public function houses()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany('UsersHouses');
}

I don't think you need a pivot table if you only want a 1-many relationship as hinted at in your original post. Make sure you have a column named exactly users_id in your houses table. If you need to you can override what column it looks for in the relationship in your Users model.

 public function houses()
  {
    return $this->hasMany('Houses', 'column_to_look_for');
  }

Ok now my models are:

Users Model

class Users extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
  protected $table = 'users';
  public $timestamps = FALSE;

  public function houses()
  {
    return $this->belongsToMany('Houses');
  }
}

Houses Model

class Houses extends Eloquent {
  protected $table = 'houses';
  public $timestamps = FALSE;

  public function users()
  {
    return $this->hasOne('Users');
  }
}

the code you posted

$user = Users::find($id); /* or however you want to retrieve your user */
$houses = $user->houses;

Works fine!! Very Thanks. The last thing is...I want to delete houses...ho to do that? In my Houses controller i have the following function that delete only an house inside houses table but not in the relationship table

	public function destroy($id)
	{
	 $house = Houses::find($id);
 	 $house->delete();
	 return Redirect::action('HousesController@index'); 	 
	}