'Bidding War' for homes to rent

wymondham

Cleaver wrote: »

I laughed at this. Then realised that we have some twigs in a big vase in our bedroom. And they have fairy lights around them. Oh no!

that sounds cool! and sort of festive!

bristol_pilot

I saw this on telly, but see no evidence of it in my local rental market yet. Maybe its a London thing. Rents are rising but there is competition for good tenants as well as for good rental property.

I can see rents going either way. Net new household formation will tend to push rents up. The ending of the blank cheque from the taxpayer (cap on LHA) will tend to provide a brake on rents - in some areas this is 40% of the market. The government has 'no policy' on house prices, but DC has declared he wants to bring rents down. In any system with both an accelerator and a brake what you tend to get is instability and volatility. Interesting times ahead.

FATBALLZ

I'd imagine this is only in very specific areas. 20% of my block of flats are empty and up for rent and have been for months.

System

I also have some twigs with built in lights

I also have laminate floors and entire walls covered in sheet satin steel

Cleaver

dopester wrote: »

Don't like such displays, or understand them.

With those office containers for pens and pencils on desks... if I see someone has returned a pen or pencil with the tip facing upwards, I'll turn them so the tip is facing downwards into the container. Otherwise, if someone isn't properly looking as they focus on bending down to pick up a pad of paper or something like phonebook, they could get it sharp and hard right in the eye.

Same with twigs in vases, imo. I don't see the point of having anything, even if it were pretty, which increases the risk of an accident.

dopester you really do make me smile, and I mean that in a nice way. I don't think I've ever come across someone so thoughtful about health and safety and general accidents. If you were in my office and did that with my pens I'd either give you a hug or a slap, depending on your general demeanor, which is hard to judge from the internet. It'd probably be a hug though.

I can report that we've had twigs in vases for the past part of a decade now and we are, thankfully, accident-free in that area. However, during that period we have had falls down the stairs, slips on wet decking, burns on the iron and a cut head from the corner of the table upon picking something up from the floor.

System

Fair point, I know an entire family who ended up blind due to twigs in a vase

Cleaver

Joeskeppi wrote: »

Fair point, I know an entire family who ended up blind due to twigs in a vase

But on the plus side they were able to sell their home for an extra 7% when the buyers said "Ooh, they've decorated this in a very modern and contempory way. I love sticks in vases Steve, don't I? I've always said I wanted them, haven't I?".

System

Cleaver wrote: »

But on the plus side they were able to sell their home for an extra 7% when the buyers said "Ooh, they've decorated this in a very modern and contempory way. I love sticks in vases Steve, don't I? I've always said I wanted them, haven't I?".

Definitely, all in all I'd say they broke even

mcc100

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

It's been obvious for some time that rental inflation would be the story of the next few years.

I somehow doubt that in 2020 we'll be looking back on how rental inflation was the story of the last few years.

PasturesNew

dopester wrote: »

Don't like such displays, or understand them.

With those office containers for pens and pencils on desks... if I see someone has returned a pen or pencil with the tip facing upwards, I'll turn them so the tip is facing downwards into the container. Otherwise, if someone isn't properly looking as they focus on bending down to pick up a pad of paper or something like phonebook, they could get it sharp and hard right in the eye.

Same with twigs in vases, imo. I don't see the point of having anything, even if it were pretty, which increases the risk of an accident. I've seen some twigs in vases pics and real life examples in gardens where you ought to be wearing safety glasses if working in them, with 'casualty' waiting to happen all over them.

Public sector worker are you?