My landlord's offering me 'favours'....ooh-err

bo_drinker

I was expecting smut due to the thread heading. Oh well.

Glad

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barnaby-bear

love_the_messenger wrote: »

I've been trying to figure out the best solution here and I can't really, probably because of my anxiety issues which make me whir things around and around in my head.

Anyway, I've been living in a rented flat for the past year. I'm extremely happy with it aside from two factors. 1. Being the sound-proofing is sh*t and 2. I'd prefer a 2-bed so I could turn the second bedroom into a home office (I work from home and currently have my desk set up in the living room)

I live in a New Build development. I found a 2-bed flat in the same development for £50 per month more than I am currently paying. It is also on the top floor which means the noise pollution from neighbours might not be such an issue.

However, now the landlord on my current flat has offered me a £25 a month rent reduction if I'll renew my tenancy agreement here for another year.

My long-term plans are to buy my own flat either next Summer or the year after. So I am wondering whether to grin and bear the things that don't suit me here and stay put. I'll be saving £75 a month in total by not moving to the new place. Plus I won't of course have any moving costs to pay.

Hmmm. What'd you do?

I would play them off against each other and go for a periodic tenancy - agree to stay if not tied into fixed term or ask the other one for written agreeement to go onto periodic after initial 6 months - if you want to move in the mid-future the flexibility to do this and not pay double rent could far outweight the monthly savings....

gastroboy

ormus wrote: »

i thought you were going to say the landlord wanted an arrangement, whereby you can live there rent free?

:rotfl:that's what I was thinking, but glad someone else said it first :-)

BritRael

Just one thing; if you stay put, make sure that you 'save' the saving! Do not ever touch it!!