BTL, vile lowlife business, nobody wants to be living under their roofs

stringsmk2

StevieJ wrote: »

You say he is a socialist but the following could have been written by Maggie in 1980 and was a precurser to the problems we have now i.e. selling off of council housing.

Really, why do you say that? Council housing is hardly away to making you feel like you are part of society. If anything it would make you feel second class

PasturesNew

Until I buy a house, I feel unable to join anything. I don't want to put my address down on anything, look into courses/education, join clubs, even buying possessions is all on hold until I buy. I want to have a 'sense of place'. I don't get that when renting, I get a feeling of being watched/judged/owned and petrified I'll do something wrong.

I own no furniture, I wouldn't want to be moving things/furniture about, so I'm like a hobo, a bag lady... floating around with stuff in storage and no sense of direction, no sense of home and no sense of place.

I'm glad I can afford to buy ... because renting cheap 1-bed flats has no quality of life.

stringsmk2

Graham_Devon wrote: »

I had this problem when I bought a new car.

I already had a car. What was I supposed to do with the one I already had?

Well, I'd just have to have 2, thought I.

That was until someone suggested I sold it. Brilliant! Couldn't believe that stroke of genius. I mean, who would have thought! Sell the old car, and then I'd be left with the one car I need.

My problem was solved.

It was such an eye opener to me. I'm only too happy to share the insight.

To be fair we would have done that as well, but given the current exchange rate and the current stake of the market, it was a no brainer not to sell especially as the mortgage rate was so low.

diable

PasturesNew wrote: »

Until I buy a house, I feel unable to join anything. I don't want to put my address down on anything, look into courses/education, join clubs, even buying possessions is all on hold until I buy. I want to have a 'sense of place'. I don't get that when renting, I get a feeling of being watched/judged/owned and petrified I'll do something wrong.

I own no furniture, I wouldn't want to be moving things/furniture about, so I'm like a hobo, a bag lady... floating around with stuff in storage and no sense of direction, no sense of home and no sense of place.

I'm glad I can afford to buy ... because renting cheap 1-bed flats has no quality of life.

Live at your parents and "pretend" its yours.........

PasturesNew

diable wrote: »

Live at your parents and "pretend" its yours.........

I'm there, but their roof/their rules .... keep looking to rent, but rents are too expensive. On the road again soon, looking for NewPastures.

Shakethedisease

stringsmk2 wrote: »

Really, why do you say that? Council housing is hardly away to making you feel like you are part of society. If anything it would make you feel second class

Millions of us grew up in them in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.. and it was the 'norm' then not the ( rock-bottom ) exception..

The balance today is all completely out of whack, and is storing up a LOT of problems..

stringsmk2

Shakethedisease wrote: »

Millions of us grew up in them in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.. and it was the 'norm' then not the ( rock-bottom ) exception..

The balance today is all completely out of whack, and is storing up a LOT of problems..

What a sad state of affairs that is then. At least home ownership is improving then

Shakethedisease

It was sad millions of us grew up in council houses over the last fifty years ? Why ?

The_Fox_3

Just polished off a bottle of wine, feeling a little more mellow, but still fuming from what i saw today.
Read all the posts, same s**t, " it's my pension" don't care, "i have two mortgages and am not finding it easy" don't care.

I am at war with BTL, i have started doing my bit already...

1, if you know antone renting a house out without informing the inland revenue, report them

2, if you know there BTL's are not paying taxes..report them

3, do ANYTHING to live anywhere but a BTL for the next year, sleep on a mates sofa, swallow your pride and go back to mums and dads, 4 of you live in a rented rather than just 2 of you, do anything to destroy demand.

4, make sure you deposit is recorded.

5, Demand to know what your MP's exposure to property is, why not!, it could be effecting his decision making on new build in his/her constituency.

There has not been one post on this thread that feel any compassion for when it comes to BTL, i don't care if you hit rock bottom should it all fail, it is ruining decent hard couples lives.

stringsmk2

Shakethedisease wrote: »

It was sad millions of us grew up in council houses over the last fifty years ? Why ?

Because you had to have your needs provided to you by the state and the tax payer.