Albert Square ... How Do They Afford Their Houses?

PasturesNew

There's a few lines in wikipedia about the Landlord and Tenant (Rent Control) Act 1949, but it's not very informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord_and_Tenant_(Rent_Control)_Act_1949

PasturesNew

My friend's father has a flat at $450/month that would now cost $2000-2500.... just because they've had it years under the original rent control system.

nearlynew

I don't watch any of these soaps.

But they are supposed to reflect real life, by addressng real issues.
They even have help lines at the end for people "affected" by the issues raised.

And yet, on something so fundemental as how people can afford their houses, we hear nothing.

Where is the helpline for this?

sjaypink

nearlynew wrote: »

Where is the helpline for this?

Probably will flash up one next week (or an MSE link!) as there are current storylines on Max- you'll all love this - ex-rich city boy- is now practically destitute... I was nearly p!ssing myself last week as he (complete with Merc, big house, dolly wife, designer suits) was crying at not being able to afford lunch at the Vic :rotfl:

HPI cheer leading debt junkie, I thought, debt is not wealth! Mwah ha ha ha!

...and Phil was given a proper good hiding by some loan sharks, hes on the bones of his @rse now too....

...and I think postie (forgotton his name ) is suppoed to be struggling.... but I don't get how, as hes trying to get extra shifts here there and everywhere, but yet was going to go splits with Ian on that big property deal that was actually a scam by Phil and Max....

leveller2911

bo_drinker wrote: »

It's not real !!!!!!.

Oh Yes it is !
(Just getting into the Christmas Panto season).............Just slapped my thight too.....:D

bo_drinker

I don't watch soaps, but when I did there was a bloke that owned the property round there Mr Popadopa dopa lopadopa lopadopalous, not a local name. I think he was like Arfur Daleys wife Er Indoors, he didn't exist

fc123

I am out of the loop as haven't watched EE for many years but I do recall Ian Beales parents (Kaff and and a thickset bloke) living in a tower block council place....but never showed the outside.

I am unaware how the clothes stalls look now but they are nothing like real stalls at all.
Is there more of a cultural mix in EE now? Previously, I wouldn't have said it represented many E End inner suburbs that I am familiar with...Walford always felt more like Dagenham or a bit further out in Essex. Walford came from merging the names Ilford with Wanstead???

And LIR ..your cats...:eek: (has to have an eeeek emoticon!) I am going to claim my £5 and say you could be Liz Jones afterall.....the nice bits of her personaliity of course..not all the other neurotic stuff.

PN...I will do you a tour if you like?..we can go meet some wholesalers, shopkeepers and residents in E London....it's nothing like the telly programme at all. We can do the Ripper tour of Whitechapel and Brick Lane afterwards.:o Or just go for a Biryani and a beer.

Pobby

My fave cat ever, Sasha was from a rescue place and our first. Wow she was a strange one. We were watching a program on tv and some sea gulls appeared. They flew out of camera range. Bang, cat jumps up and goes to the back of the tv. She was a terrible one for catching birds.

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

PN...I will do you a tour if you like?..we can go meet some wholesalers, shopkeepers and residents in E London....it's nothing like the telly programme at all. We can do the Ripper tour of Whitechapel and Brick Lane afterwards.:o Or just go for a Biryani and a beer.

All that lot, except the beer. I'm not what you'd call a drinker.

michaels

Well the Postie offered to pay the rent for his son' s fiance on the back of the profit he hoped to make from the Ian Beale deal, when Archie warned Beale off Postie had to work extra night taxi shifts and fell asleep and had an accident whilst driving Max's ex (bradley's mum) who Max had just touched up for 10k supposedly for Bradley but actually to bail out Max - his business as an insurance salesman is down the tubes as he can not compete with internet rates (topical anyone?) and the last straw was when he pocketed the premiums for the Vic rather than passing them on and then Archie trashed the Vic in a failed attempt to burn it down leading to a 10k claim which, given that the Mitchells' are seriously screwed due to Sam jumping 250k bail Phil was not willing to let pass.

I never waste my time on the prole food either...