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Confessions of a slum landlord - Investors Chronicle

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  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    This is why I don't rent... I can't afford to rent. LHA pays more in rent to landlords for a 1-bedder than I can bring in/am prepared to pay out. Also, if I pay LHA rates, I get LHA neighbours .... what's the point of working if I would come home to an undesirable 1-bedder in a grim area...?

    So, I don't rent.

    What do you do then?
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    What do you do then?

    You've just not been keeping up, have you? :)
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    carolt wrote: »
    You've just not been keeping up, have you? :)

    Obviously trueicon7.gif, well?
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    What do you do then?
    Doss down in a sleeping bag in my parents' spare bedroom ... but dad keeps checking the "flats to let" listings and the jobs section.... and dropping big hints.

    I've hidden away in my room now for about 8 days, only leaving it for about half an hour a day when I can get away with it.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    On the other hand, my unemployed mate is out looking at 3 bed houses for him/his gf and 2 kids .... because LHA is so high where he lives that he can get a 3-bed house with garden for the money they give him ... and he's done the sums and won't be bothering to get a job...

    It makes me spit.
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    On the other hand, my unemployed mate is out looking at 3 bed houses for him/his gf and 2 kids .... because LHA is so high where he lives that he can get a 3-bed house with garden for the money they give him ... and he's done the sums and won't be bothering to get a job...

    It makes me spit.
    Not for too much longer me thinks--
  • markharding557
    markharding557 Posts: 3,116 Forumite
    I believe a lot of these problems could be avoided if social housing was directed at low paid employed rather than bums
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    On the other hand, my unemployed mate is out looking at 3 bed houses for him/his gf and 2 kids .... because LHA is so high where he lives that he can get a 3-bed house with garden for the money they give him ... and he's done the sums and won't be bothering to get a job...

    It makes me spit.

    aren't you unemployed pn? in which case could you not also claim lha?

    sorry if you've not. i don't follow people's personal details that closely but vaguely remember you were looking for work.
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
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