No doubt further dooming people who aren’t fortunate enough to have a deposit to eat into their savings more, thereby trapping them in rented accommodation forever.
My landlord raised rent by £100 taking it to £1150 the very same month when everything else went through the roof.
Oh and we should be grateful as akkkkkkshully she should be charging us way more.
We’ve been here 2 years ish. Which means ive given her nearly £28,000
We’re desperate to buy and be done with landlords. But now magically everything is expensive now and we’re eating into our deposit savings…so fk us I guess…
Inb4 – “landlords struggle like everyone else,”
Skip me with that – you’re struggling 28k less than I am.
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a landlord parking a white Range Rover on a human face, forever.”
This is going to catch up with us as a society, one way or the other.
And yet, our government is in a state of paralysis trying to figure out what flavour of corporate appeasement they should be chasing.
Another article on this subreddit today opines why people are not having children. Here’s a reason. This is why.
Why build more houses when you can just make more money from extortionate rents?
I would say that people are going to be unable afford the basics at this rate but we are already there, with more set to be there when energy bills go up in October. We’re going to see a serious recession because people will no longer be able to afford the basics, let alone have spending money for luxuries and entertainment.
Leaving London so our flat is up. First week it was advertised it was £50 more expensive than what we’re paying now. Absolutely no takers. Second week it’s £100 more expensive than we’re paying now, lots of interest… I’m fucking baffled!
This country is absolutely disgusting now people havnt got a chance of any kind of good life let alone having children. We are taxed and robbed at every man made opportunity. No wonder Birth rates are on the decline whats the point Fuc you Government wasn’t you meant to make peoples lifes better what happened? Rant Over.
The only solution is an explosion in government-funded subsidised housing to ease the market tensions. The current pathetic %ages on new housing estates is diabolical.
The only reason I own a house is that my Dad died. That’s it. I’d still be in rental scams and probably be struggling like fuck looking at the price rises in the area.
We’re extremely lucky our landlady hasn’t increased our rent since we moved in 5 years ago. We were thinking of upsizing or at least transitioning from a flat to a house until we saw the going rates. We found a flat identical to ours on Rightmove a few doors down going for *£400* more than what we pay. So now we’re staying put even though we’re rapidly outgrowing the place with our toddler. I have no idea how to progress from here.
Another thing that isn’t talked about enough is the horrible quality of lots (most?) of rental homes, currently looking for a new place and I have been wading through so much shit, it’s offensive being offered a place in a shared house for 600quid that hasn’t been renovated since Victorian times. I don’t really want to but will probably go back to Berlin where I will earn 1k more every month for the same job and pay the same rent for an actually nice place
I’m moving out at the end of the month, landlord is putting rent up to £2200 from £1600. Couldn’t believe what i was hearing when she told me.
Haven’t heard any of the candidates for our next Prime Minister even mention this. Rents are crippling peoples life chances and these politicians pretend that the issue doesn’t even exist.
Very lucky to have got myself a lovely brand new Housing association bungalow after splitting with my wife.
Just over £80 p.w
Insecure expensive private rent is just not good enough for ordinary people.
Waiting for the snapping point that people actively start giving a shit. Self included
It’s just nuts, a fair number of my friends have bought houses now but the majority only afforded it because of wealthy parents giving handouts or receiving inheritance from family. My wife and I would certainly still be renting if my grandma hadn’t left me money in her will, there’s no way we could have raised the 18k we needed for a deposit and this was back in 2017. The system is a fucking sham.
Me and my wife are paying £1100 on a small 2 bedroom house in Portslade (Brighton). Landlady sent us an email a few weeks back saying she’d been “advised” by a Letting Agent that our rent is “very low” for the area and that average price for a 2-bed in the area is now 1485 a month (no way this is true). Also she said it was “difficult” because her mortgage rate had gone up with still 9 years left. Like I was supposed to feel sympathy?
Thankfully she is actually a private landlady, only using an agent to sell the property, and anything needs doing goes through her. I wrote a quite lengthy email back to her explaining our financial situation and having a 4 year old kid to look after, as well as confirming we get all the Gvt help we are entitled to (UC). After this she immediately backed down saying she has “no immediate plans on the future of the property”. Unfortunately I doubt most landlords are this understanding.
My Rent went up £100pm, along with Cost of Living and energy me and my disabled wife will soon be homeless, then our landlord hit us with that he wants us to pay and cut down the line of trees every year costing hundreds more.
Its a long story but all my wife wants is somewhere quiet and one floor to spend her days as shes housebound chronic pain sufferer and then you get landlords who do not care, btw my landlord is millionaire now and owns a construction machine company.
Could we organise a general UK wide a rent strike?
They couldn’t section 21 all of us……….
I’m paying way more in rent for my one bed house than my friends are paying in mortgage for their 3 bed house.
In 6 years all I’ve had “maintained” is a new bedroom carpet because when I moved in the carpet was threadbare and bumpy. A new fridge and oven. Both of which were the cheapest the landlord could find (found them on curry’s website). £200 each. Because the previous cheap ones literally went bang.
The kitchen is the original one the house was built with 35 years ago and although technically functional, just isn’t built for modern living. Even though I’m by myself, I have just the one cupboard for food AND equipment/plates etc and literally zero work surface.
When I moved in, I re-glossed all the skirting, door frames, loft hatch because it was all tatty and scratched or incredibly yellow and hadn’t been painted for years.
All furniture is mine. I replaced all the light fittings that came with the house (they’re all in the loft) as they were all crusty and broken.
I have been searching for a room… a *ROOM* in London and places that aren’t a total dump are around the £1k mark. I’m not even asking for much. All I want is somewhere that hasn’t converted the living room in to another bedroom (should seriously be fucking illegal) and is in Camden. Some may say I’m being fussy – I’ve lived here 10 years so feel I know enough to say this is the *worst* the market has ever been.
Landlords and renting a HOME is immoral. The should be a right to own a home. It should not be a right to own two homes.
In 2017 I bought a 3 bed terrace near central Manchester for £90K (granted, needed about £40K in restoration work since). Houses on the same street were being rented out for about £5-600/mo. Today the same houses are selling for £170K and being rented out for £1k/mo. My mortgage is £360/mo. The difference in costs between owners and renters is obscene.
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No doubt further dooming people who aren’t fortunate enough to have a deposit to eat into their savings more, thereby trapping them in rented accommodation forever.
My landlord raised rent by £100 taking it to £1150 the very same month when everything else went through the roof.
Oh and we should be grateful as akkkkkkshully she should be charging us way more.
We’ve been here 2 years ish. Which means ive given her nearly £28,000
We’re desperate to buy and be done with landlords. But now magically everything is expensive now and we’re eating into our deposit savings…so fk us I guess…
Inb4 – “landlords struggle like everyone else,”
Skip me with that – you’re struggling 28k less than I am.
[removed]
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a landlord parking a white Range Rover on a human face, forever.”
This is going to catch up with us as a society, one way or the other.
And yet, our government is in a state of paralysis trying to figure out what flavour of corporate appeasement they should be chasing.
Another article on this subreddit today opines why people are not having children. Here’s a reason. This is why.
Why build more houses when you can just make more money from extortionate rents?
I would say that people are going to be unable afford the basics at this rate but we are already there, with more set to be there when energy bills go up in October. We’re going to see a serious recession because people will no longer be able to afford the basics, let alone have spending money for luxuries and entertainment.
Leaving London so our flat is up. First week it was advertised it was £50 more expensive than what we’re paying now. Absolutely no takers. Second week it’s £100 more expensive than we’re paying now, lots of interest… I’m fucking baffled!
This country is absolutely disgusting now people havnt got a chance of any kind of good life let alone having children. We are taxed and robbed at every man made opportunity. No wonder Birth rates are on the decline whats the point Fuc you Government wasn’t you meant to make peoples lifes better what happened? Rant Over.
The only solution is an explosion in government-funded subsidised housing to ease the market tensions. The current pathetic %ages on new housing estates is diabolical.
The only reason I own a house is that my Dad died. That’s it. I’d still be in rental scams and probably be struggling like fuck looking at the price rises in the area.
We’re extremely lucky our landlady hasn’t increased our rent since we moved in 5 years ago. We were thinking of upsizing or at least transitioning from a flat to a house until we saw the going rates. We found a flat identical to ours on Rightmove a few doors down going for *£400* more than what we pay. So now we’re staying put even though we’re rapidly outgrowing the place with our toddler. I have no idea how to progress from here.
Another thing that isn’t talked about enough is the horrible quality of lots (most?) of rental homes, currently looking for a new place and I have been wading through so much shit, it’s offensive being offered a place in a shared house for 600quid that hasn’t been renovated since Victorian times. I don’t really want to but will probably go back to Berlin where I will earn 1k more every month for the same job and pay the same rent for an actually nice place
I’m moving out at the end of the month, landlord is putting rent up to £2200 from £1600. Couldn’t believe what i was hearing when she told me.
Haven’t heard any of the candidates for our next Prime Minister even mention this. Rents are crippling peoples life chances and these politicians pretend that the issue doesn’t even exist.
Very lucky to have got myself a lovely brand new Housing association bungalow after splitting with my wife.
Just over £80 p.w
Insecure expensive private rent is just not good enough for ordinary people.
Waiting for the snapping point that people actively start giving a shit. Self included
It’s just nuts, a fair number of my friends have bought houses now but the majority only afforded it because of wealthy parents giving handouts or receiving inheritance from family. My wife and I would certainly still be renting if my grandma hadn’t left me money in her will, there’s no way we could have raised the 18k we needed for a deposit and this was back in 2017. The system is a fucking sham.
Me and my wife are paying £1100 on a small 2 bedroom house in Portslade (Brighton). Landlady sent us an email a few weeks back saying she’d been “advised” by a Letting Agent that our rent is “very low” for the area and that average price for a 2-bed in the area is now 1485 a month (no way this is true). Also she said it was “difficult” because her mortgage rate had gone up with still 9 years left. Like I was supposed to feel sympathy?
Thankfully she is actually a private landlady, only using an agent to sell the property, and anything needs doing goes through her. I wrote a quite lengthy email back to her explaining our financial situation and having a 4 year old kid to look after, as well as confirming we get all the Gvt help we are entitled to (UC). After this she immediately backed down saying she has “no immediate plans on the future of the property”. Unfortunately I doubt most landlords are this understanding.
My Rent went up £100pm, along with Cost of Living and energy me and my disabled wife will soon be homeless, then our landlord hit us with that he wants us to pay and cut down the line of trees every year costing hundreds more.
Its a long story but all my wife wants is somewhere quiet and one floor to spend her days as shes housebound chronic pain sufferer and then you get landlords who do not care, btw my landlord is millionaire now and owns a construction machine company.
Could we organise a general UK wide a rent strike?
They couldn’t section 21 all of us……….
I’m paying way more in rent for my one bed house than my friends are paying in mortgage for their 3 bed house.
In 6 years all I’ve had “maintained” is a new bedroom carpet because when I moved in the carpet was threadbare and bumpy. A new fridge and oven. Both of which were the cheapest the landlord could find (found them on curry’s website). £200 each. Because the previous cheap ones literally went bang.
The kitchen is the original one the house was built with 35 years ago and although technically functional, just isn’t built for modern living. Even though I’m by myself, I have just the one cupboard for food AND equipment/plates etc and literally zero work surface.
When I moved in, I re-glossed all the skirting, door frames, loft hatch because it was all tatty and scratched or incredibly yellow and hadn’t been painted for years.
All furniture is mine. I replaced all the light fittings that came with the house (they’re all in the loft) as they were all crusty and broken.
I have been searching for a room… a *ROOM* in London and places that aren’t a total dump are around the £1k mark. I’m not even asking for much. All I want is somewhere that hasn’t converted the living room in to another bedroom (should seriously be fucking illegal) and is in Camden. Some may say I’m being fussy – I’ve lived here 10 years so feel I know enough to say this is the *worst* the market has ever been.
Landlords and renting a HOME is immoral. The should be a right to own a home. It should not be a right to own two homes.
In 2017 I bought a 3 bed terrace near central Manchester for £90K (granted, needed about £40K in restoration work since). Houses on the same street were being rented out for about £5-600/mo. Today the same houses are selling for £170K and being rented out for £1k/mo. My mortgage is £360/mo. The difference in costs between owners and renters is obscene.