Would renting make you bitter?

Sibley

I cannot really understand why some people are bitter about renting.

True, you could look at it that you are paying off somebodies mortgage and making them rich.

I personally don't feel like that at all. I'm lucky to see the story from both sides of the fence. I own a house and rent one of somebody else. I don't feel at all bitter and twisted when it's rent day.

Fair play to them. They had the brains and vision to buy the house and deserve a return.

I don't consider my landlord to be a scumbag or any of the other bad names used on here to describe the person providing a roof over tenants heads.

I think a lot of rents will have to rise soon. This will probably make the bitterness even worse.

I wish it would stop.

Masomnia

I don't know if bitter is the right word.

I don't have anything against landlords as such, as they do provide an essential service, and the ones I had last year were excellent, everything was dealt with no trouble. The ones I have this year are bloody awful, nothing is dealt with with any urgency; the flat is nice, but the service they provide is terrible.

We get emails frequently from them, mainly related to how if we don't comply with things we'll have to owe them money. It doesn't seem very professional at all as we've been perferct tennants by anyone's standards. I do resent that, that we're frequently threatened with fines/deposit deductions yet they never respond to emails we send.

Clearly they are just in it for the money and don't have any interest in their responsibilites that come with it.

There are lots of little niggling things with the flat that if I owned it I'd sort out, but since I don't I can't really do anything about it!

I would rather own my own place.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I rent a lovely flat that I'd never be able to own (would require deposit of ~£60k and ~6 times my salary). So not at all bitter, but many thanks for your concern!

lindsaygalaxy

I'm not bitter, but dont see any way of raising a deposit now required to buy a house, of which a mortgage on a house similar to which i rent would be less a month. Still, happy to have a nice house to live in,even if its not mine.

Generali

Renting has been very helpful to me over the years. When I sold up, I rented a place that was very close to work that allowed me to see my very young family grow in a way that would have been impossible as an investment banker in the 'burbs.

Then when I moved to Aus it meant I could move areas quickly when a job I wanted came up. It has also allowed me to stick my toe in the water to test an area without committing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the decision.

Personally it's worked well for me. I didn't have huge troubles with LLs in the UK (except one that took a fancy to my deposit that I had to sue) and the rules over here are such that you can pretty easily force LLs to maintain the place you rent.

I find that the renters on here that come across as 'bitter' are pretty few and far between and they tend to be the ones with an exaggerated sense of entitlement. The middle class versions of the grasping long-term welfare claimant.

Really2

The only rented accomodation I have had in my own name was a holiday cabin for 3 weeks while I was in-between houses in 2008.
I was fairly bitter, it was mid July and it cost me nearly £3K (or was it £2K?) for 3 weeks.

doire_2

Im not in the least bitter. Why would i be? Owning a house or two is not what my life is all about


I rent a lovely house with my new wife. We have great neighbours which we get on very well with.

And the best bit is that with house prices still falling in NI we are more than happy to keep adding to my deposit and get a nice home when we are ready (mid 2011)

System

When I used to rent a long time ago I had no intentions of buying anything so I didn't care.

If I had to rent today I think it would make me bitter.

PasturesNew

Renting 1-bed flats is dire. You get the smallest, nastiest, pokeyist places you can imagine - and share with life's ne'er do wells.

If you can afford to rent a 3-bed house there's lots of choice, nice places. But try renting a 1-bed flat at LHA levels and they're .... just nasty.

themull1

I wouldnt like renting, at least eventually when you pay off the mortgage, you have some money, renting you have to pay rent till you die.....

Dan:_4

Renting is what people do when they can't afford to buy - there is nothing wrong with it.