Local paper - £500K houses, half of estate possibly bought by housing association

neverdespairgirl

tomstickland wrote: »

It's an up-together place. In the morning everyone goes to work (some start at 5am). There's no litter. There's some basic consideration for each other. I like it a lot.

So please stop the assumptions.

I like where I live as well. There are a mixture of tenants and OOs - 2 sets of each. And 4 businesses downstairs. Everyone is helpful, friendly, and polite.

SingleSue

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'd rather not live on any type of estate, myself.

Same here!

Anyway, after reading this thread and contributing on occasions, I decided to have a look around my mostly housing association estate. There are no burnt out or even abandoned cars, the gardens are all very nicely tended to, no sofas or old fridges in the gardens and no people sitting on kerbs talking to each other.

Maybe our estate (built circa 1950) is different because we have an even mix of elderly and familes living here with a sprinkling of owner occupiers and we are in a more well to do area with good employment rates...I don't know

I have owned a property before and I take the same care now as I did back then...even going as far as having my front and back garden professionally landscaped (handy having a brother in the trade!).

We also have a very static community, I have been here over 10 years and I am still seen as a newcomer!

Granted there are estates which are rough or have undesirables but not all of them are like that, unfortunately as others have said, it only takes one family to bring things down and that to someone who has purchased their home, has to be a worry.

Gorgeous_George

Sometimes it has to be experienced to be believed.

On many estates (probably not those with £500K houses), housing association tenants are a nightmare to home-owning neighbous. Less (or no) pride in their house's appearance (that the HA's responsibility).

HAs are forced to house lowlife that private LLs would not entertain. Of course, most HA tenants are good, honest citizens. Sadly, these tenants are often driven out by the lowlife.

GG

Realy

tomstickland wrote: »

The point was that his neighbour assumed that HA tenants would not be a problem, but then found out that they were. Plus, Max couldn't have warned her, because this was his first experience of the problems.

Funny he says
Snobbery aside, I think it is fair to say that in the majority of cases, people who don't own their own homes (with or without mortgage) simply don't look after them as well. There are exceptions of course, people who rent and keep the place immaculate, and people who own and live like pigs. However, if you took 40 identical houses in 2 identical streets, one street owner/occupier and one renters, you would see a difference.

And I say that as someone who once rented and now owns. I used to look after the rented place ok, but not with as much effort and pride as the place I now own. It's simple human nature.

Surely he as seen firsthand renters do not look after properties!(so he says would that not count as experience)
Or as he done renting and purchase in the last week?

Realy

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

Sometimes it has to be experienced to be believed.

On many estates (probably not those with £500K houses), housing association tenants are a nightmare to home-owning neighbous. Less (or no) pride in their house's appearance (that the HA's responsibility).

HAs are forced to house lowlife that private LLs would not entertain. Of course, most HA tenants are good, honest citizens. Sadly, these tenants are often driven out by the lowlife.

GG

:rotfl: :rotfl:
As well as being untrue it does not even make sense(surly if the scum forced the good out at one stage you will be left with just scum, thus making them all scum!). What is your experience and what HA was it?
You have more chance getting a bad HA tenant evicted than a bad council tenant or private owner or private LL evicted.
Of course HA just let the "scum" trash the houses after all they are not their assets.:rolleyes: