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Cheap rented room wanted north London
Alikay
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DS1 (18) has just been offered a job in Primrose Hill, NW1 and will be leaving the family home in Derbyshire within the month to take it up. It's a great opportunity for him but the salary to start is only £15k which means after tax and NI he'll be taking home about £1000 p/m. He needs somewhere cheap to rent, hopefully keeping it to around £600 pcm inc council tax and bills so he'll have enough for fares, food, and other necessities.
Does anyone know any decent house share or room let sites or agents he can use? Or any suggestions for areas which are cheapish and won't cost him a fortune in travel to/from work? He's not bothered whether the area is "nice" but obviously we'd like to make sure he doesn't end up somewhere that's totally crawling in pimps and drug dealers!
Sorry if this question seems daft, but we don't know London at all well - if he was going off to uni there we'd have the student accommodation places to use, but he's just a young lad going independently. Thanks :A
Does anyone know any decent house share or room let sites or agents he can use? Or any suggestions for areas which are cheapish and won't cost him a fortune in travel to/from work? He's not bothered whether the area is "nice" but obviously we'd like to make sure he doesn't end up somewhere that's totally crawling in pimps and drug dealers!
Sorry if this question seems daft, but we don't know London at all well - if he was going off to uni there we'd have the student accommodation places to use, but he's just a young lad going independently. Thanks :A
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He needs to set asside some days to come to london to meet people, view rooms and get his accomodation sorted. If he has someone in town he can stay with for a few days that might help!
Gumtree is the place to start looking for rooms but they tend to go within hours of being put up so he needs to be sitting there refreshing the page every hour or so ready to call to make an appointment to view. He should be very careful when going to view places, check exactly what is and is not included in the rent, wha the house's lease situation is and what the other people are like. Obviously letting someone know where he is going is a good idea too.
Other option is to get him to ask the people in his office if anyone rents out their rooms or knows someone who does.
He should be able to find a reasonable if small room somewhere for less than that £600, as anything he can save is a bonus on that wage.
Aim to find somewhere walking distance or on a bus route to his office so as to avoid the tube which is cramped, hot and expensive. Get him to find his office address exactly, then get on google maps and TFL's website. Camden is a bit too trendy to be good value, so Hampstead, Mornington Cresent, kentish town. A bit further is Holloway Road which has a lot of student stuff, but might be abit of a nightmare transport wise. The alternative might be to look south of the river but put up with a nasty journey up the northern line.0 -
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some good flatshare sites are
gumtree.com
moveflat.com
Kentish town is near Primrose Hill, and cheap-a number of friends live there.0 -
spareroom.co.uk
use the advanced search functiuon to set geographical and £ limits
http://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/search.pl?searchtype=advanced&rand=252511243524969&urlsession_id=&urlsession_key=0 -
TFL = Transport For LondonPasturesNew wrote: »who?
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PasturesNew wrote: »who?
Edit: Already answered.We could all learn a little something from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.0 -
You can live in some areas of North London (e.g. Daltson, Wood Green) pretty cheaply - as long as he doesn't mind long bus rides and the occasional stabbing outside his house...0
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Just looking at rooms to let in North London, and I found this. It looks to good to be true. £140 per week inc. of absolutely everything. There are 5 (yes, FIVE) freezers, for you to help yourself to food, also included.
http://www.intolondon.com/flatshare/advert-detail-flat-share/0/676553/room.html?&rand=85131243529882&urlsession_id=&urlsession_key=We could all learn a little something from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.0 -
superfran_uk wrote: »You can live in some areas of North London (e.g. Daltson, Wood Green) pretty cheaply - as long as he doesn't mind long bus rides and the occasional stabbing outside his house...
they don't call them stabbings now... they are known as "shankings" in the trade.
My advice: try and live in an Asian community. They have a higher moral code than the rest of us.0 -
they don't call them stabbings now... they are known as "shankings" in the trade.
My advice: try and live in an Asian community. They have a higher moral code than the rest of us.
Really??? Mmmm I would disagree, you can get mugged or stabbed anywhere! Where I used to live was a mainly Asian community and it was always getting slated for crimes!0
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