A trilogy in seven parts.....hypno's latest efforts

Money_Fritter

Hi Hypno,

Sorry to be a pain again, but how did you get into renting out to students, did you advertise or anything. It is just that I live in a three bedroom house on my own and was thinking of renting to earn a bit more money.

Also do you use gapbusters for mystery shopping, that is the only one I have heard of.

Thanks in advance, and sorry to pester.

Money Fritter

hypno06

I don't use gapbusters - but there is a great thread on the "up your income board" for mystery shopping where they will give you all the lowdown on what to do and who to avoid etc!!

Re the student thing - the long term students we host through Children's Services at the County Council, and the short term ones we answered an ad in the local paper for host families from a local language school.

Have a look in your yellow pages for language schools and give them a call expressing an interest! It generally pays between £95 and £125 a week, so well worth doing if you have a spare room or two!

InkyCats20

shaun40400 wrote: »

well done hypno :j sub 25k very close

hypno06 wrote: »

I will also be starting the CT rebanding claim today - fingers crossed.

Council Tax rebanding O Sheepy one - see Hypno's post below

hypno06 wrote: »

Back on a MSE note......OH has discovered that neighbours in the same design of house, built at the same time, on the same estate.......are a council tax band lower than we are - there are 4 houses band E, of which ours is one, and a dozen or more that are the same house, on the same development, which are band D - £320 a year cheaper!

Guess what my next mission is to be :money:

Evening everyone btw :hello:

savingmore

do you know that when you claim for rebanding you can claim for back years too, it is quite alot of years but can't remember how many....i am sure there is something on mse somewhere about it...it could be very very fruitful for you....i really hope so! those numbers are really coming down! well done you inspiring lady:beer:

hypno06

InkyCats20 wrote: »

Evening everyone btw :hello:

Evening :hello:

I need to do an online Tesco shop.....I've got a houseful of teenagers to feed next week :rolleyes:

Chips.....pizza.....more chips....distinct lack of veg.....more pizza :cool:

taka

My parents drive me mad on CT banding... They live in a terraced house but 3 out of the 14 in the terrace are at a higher band and they are one of the higher ones but they refuse to put a claim in to get it back. In fact a couple of the lower banded terraced houses have a cellar too but my parents doesn't - otherwise they are identical/mirror images for the entire row! It even looks like 1 house has been already been rebanded as the date for that one being assesed is completely different to all the others! It'd be £1000s literally as the overcharge would be backdated to mid 90's I think... Arghhhhhh! And they claim to be skint since they are both retired now... :wall: Parents!!

shaun40400

InkyCats20 wrote: »

Council Tax rebanding O Sheepy one - see Hypno's post below

i see like rate,poll tax eth

the good people of dublin protested in the 80S and told the government to stuff its extra taxes as we pay enough paye(wages) and vat 21% and 13.5% on luxury goods like butter ,bread
vrt,,,vehicicle registration tax think uk price add on €7 to 14k i kid you not:eek:
so we dont have any of them:j

hypno06

SH, the first place I looked was MSE for full instructions on the CT claim - where else would I start :money:

taka - I have been very rude and not thanked you for the seeds you sent me! I am sorry! - I have planted some, and hope to report success in due course!

My online shop is submitted - very scary figures :eek: I couldn't even get a discount code from MSE :eek::eek:

And there was me thinking I could reduce my grocery budget for this month :rolleyes:

skint_spice

Did you sell the TT ticket Hypno? I am having difficulty keeping up at the minute!

taxi73

Just catching up!!!...see you've been very busy as usual(what else should I expect)..
Great new totals there and GL with the council tax thingy.