I’m a working professional with a solid career. I pay £900 a month to rent a tiny room in a mouldy flat.
My roommate, who’s a grown man in his thirties, shat all over the shared bathroom yesterday and didn’t clean it up.
Unimaginable hellscape is about right.
EDIT: also, the landlord is renting us his ex council flat as a HMO that he bought for pennies. He pretends he still lives here so isn’t paying any tax on the 3k he’s making per month from our rent. He spends most of the year in another European country while we pay for his entire lifestyle.
Unfortunately I’ll be moving soon and I’m absolutely dreading the cycle of frantically calling, attending viewings, paying shit loads for a deposit, praying I get my deposit back etc.
I only got my flat because I was two weeks from having nowhere to go then one appeared with an immediate start date and I rented it on the day 😮💨
As someone who came from renting in Barcelona, London seems like a paradise to rent in.
Room hunting in London was a soul-draining demoralising experience even back when I first started doing so in 2011, and all the other times in 2016 and 2018.
I really dread to think what it’s like now. I developed many tricks but even those, from what I’ve gathered, wouldn’t be enough these days.
Too many chefs too little broth.
One thing that I wonder about this – why is it happening WORLDWIDE? Why is the whole world struggling with accomodation for their citizens?
It’s bad, but it’s only going to get worse.
Speak to any estate agent, tons of rentals are steadily being sold and becoming owner occupied. This is great news for those who can rely on the bank of Mum and Dad for a deposit to buy a house at a small discount – awful news for anyone stuck renting.
The unpopular truth is that punitive legislation by both governments in the past 10 – 15 years has made buy-to-lets highly unattractive. For example, not being able to expense interest paid on the mortgage – something that you’re still able to do in the vast majority of other countries.
Landlords are selling, Millys and Tillys are buying with Daddy’s help. [Exactly the same as when Rotterdam banned Housing Investors.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqZBuu_Ers) The generationally rich owner occupiers got a minor discount on new purchases, the young and the poor paid significantly more rent.
Man, Thatchers policies are still being felt. Council housing is embarrassingly low!
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I’m a working professional with a solid career. I pay £900 a month to rent a tiny room in a mouldy flat.
My roommate, who’s a grown man in his thirties, shat all over the shared bathroom yesterday and didn’t clean it up.
Unimaginable hellscape is about right.
EDIT: also, the landlord is renting us his ex council flat as a HMO that he bought for pennies. He pretends he still lives here so isn’t paying any tax on the 3k he’s making per month from our rent. He spends most of the year in another European country while we pay for his entire lifestyle.
Unfortunately I’ll be moving soon and I’m absolutely dreading the cycle of frantically calling, attending viewings, paying shit loads for a deposit, praying I get my deposit back etc.
I only got my flat because I was two weeks from having nowhere to go then one appeared with an immediate start date and I rented it on the day 😮💨
As someone who came from renting in Barcelona, London seems like a paradise to rent in.
Room hunting in London was a soul-draining demoralising experience even back when I first started doing so in 2011, and all the other times in 2016 and 2018.
I really dread to think what it’s like now. I developed many tricks but even those, from what I’ve gathered, wouldn’t be enough these days.
Too many chefs too little broth.
One thing that I wonder about this – why is it happening WORLDWIDE? Why is the whole world struggling with accomodation for their citizens?
It’s bad, but it’s only going to get worse.
Speak to any estate agent, tons of rentals are steadily being sold and becoming owner occupied. This is great news for those who can rely on the bank of Mum and Dad for a deposit to buy a house at a small discount – awful news for anyone stuck renting.
The unpopular truth is that punitive legislation by both governments in the past 10 – 15 years has made buy-to-lets highly unattractive. For example, not being able to expense interest paid on the mortgage – something that you’re still able to do in the vast majority of other countries.
Landlords are selling, Millys and Tillys are buying with Daddy’s help. [Exactly the same as when Rotterdam banned Housing Investors.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRqZBuu_Ers) The generationally rich owner occupiers got a minor discount on new purchases, the young and the poor paid significantly more rent.
Man, Thatchers policies are still being felt. Council housing is embarrassingly low!
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