I don’t think a payslip is going to make a difference, lack of “wages” might, but a slip of paper showing how much tax you’ve paid isn’t going to affect your ability to pay rent.
And the sad part is that most of them were the pro-Brexiteers to whom the Tories sold the neoliberalism again. That is a giant scandal. Murdoch and the other liars should have a trial. But it seems that nothing happens. Why?
BTL owners are as screwed from mortgage increases as private owners. With that and the tax changes I can see rents jumping massively as deals end and they reassess.
I’m so glad I don’t live in London. I know a couple of people who’ve moved down there and it just sounds like hell. Far too crowded, too expensive, long commutes, hardly any disposable income, which makes it nigh on impossible to save. Yet on their salaries they’d live pretty comfortably basically anywere else in the country. I know that people who work in London get extra salaries, but even so 40k in London is a lot worse than 34k in Birmingham. I earn around 34k and I’m renting a nice two-bed semi with a garden (albeit with my partner’s income as well), and we’re saving for a deposit. But those I know in London live in shitty little flatshares with a shoebox room, for a lot more per month than what me and my partner are paying. I don’t understand why people do it, honestly.
Yes, and London is the wealthiest city in the UK. It’s much worse up north. Sadly the UK is very much a third world country in every way after over a decade of Tory rule.
Hold up. People have savings? I couldn’t even afford a holiday this year. I’m literally paying 1k more a month on Bill’s than I was 2 yrs ago.
Affordability is an issue and will become more so – over leveraged landlords should be aware of the impact affordability will have on greed
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I don’t think a payslip is going to make a difference, lack of “wages” might, but a slip of paper showing how much tax you’ve paid isn’t going to affect your ability to pay rent.
And the sad part is that most of them were the pro-Brexiteers to whom the Tories sold the neoliberalism again. That is a giant scandal. Murdoch and the other liars should have a trial. But it seems that nothing happens. Why?
BTL owners are as screwed from mortgage increases as private owners. With that and the tax changes I can see rents jumping massively as deals end and they reassess.
I’m so glad I don’t live in London. I know a couple of people who’ve moved down there and it just sounds like hell. Far too crowded, too expensive, long commutes, hardly any disposable income, which makes it nigh on impossible to save. Yet on their salaries they’d live pretty comfortably basically anywere else in the country. I know that people who work in London get extra salaries, but even so 40k in London is a lot worse than 34k in Birmingham. I earn around 34k and I’m renting a nice two-bed semi with a garden (albeit with my partner’s income as well), and we’re saving for a deposit. But those I know in London live in shitty little flatshares with a shoebox room, for a lot more per month than what me and my partner are paying. I don’t understand why people do it, honestly.
Yes, and London is the wealthiest city in the UK. It’s much worse up north. Sadly the UK is very much a third world country in every way after over a decade of Tory rule.
Hold up. People have savings? I couldn’t even afford a holiday this year. I’m literally paying 1k more a month on Bill’s than I was 2 yrs ago.
Affordability is an issue and will become more so – over leveraged landlords should be aware of the impact affordability will have on greed