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Generation Rent.... The future of those who missed the boat..

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  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    Gosh you're very good at that, Really.

    You could make some money at that, you know. ;)
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
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  • bernard_shaw
    bernard_shaw Posts: 267 Forumite
    Eh?
    How can more people be forced to rent due to a shortage of housing? More people have to live in a house due to a lack of houses????!!!!!!

    I wonder whether they mean that people are renting due to a lack of houses for sale?

    I think they do.
    P = MV/Q
  • Wookster
    Wookster Posts: 3,795 Forumite
    If it is cheaper to rent in the long run, why would anyone in their right mind buy?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Wookster wrote: »
    If it is cheaper to rent in the long run, why would anyone in their right mind buy?

    Who said anything about that?

    It's vastly more expensive to rent than buy in the long run. Prices would have to rise an awfully long way, without rents rising at all, for that situation to change.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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  • smamst
    smamst Posts: 1,545 Forumite
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
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    That's a bit rude.

    You getting rattled Hamish?
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    Who said anything about that?

    It's vastly more expensive to rent than buy in the long run. Prices would have to rise an awfully long way, without rents rising at all, for that situation to change.
    i wouldn't even bother trying to explain Hamish, some of these people are a bit slow... if it's so much cheaper to rent than buy why do people make money out of letting property to tenants.
    Wookster wrote: »
    If it is cheaper to rent in the long run, why would anyone in their right mind buy?
  • smamst
    smamst Posts: 1,545 Forumite
    chucky wrote: »
    i wouldn't even bother trying to explain Hamish, some of these people are a bit slow

    and now Hamish's gimp is throwing in some insults.

    I got a feeling the bulls aren't happy at the moment.
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    smamst wrote: »
    and now Hamish's gimp is throwing in some insults.
    yeah right - i get you now
    smamst wrote: »
    I got a feeling the bulls aren't happy at the moment.
    but then you contradict yourself and make yourself look stupid in one post - that wasn't too hard was it :eek:

    it's always good to see one of the less bright member of the audience is unable to explain why renting is cheaper over 25 years... but resorts to this. :T
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