Accidental landlady, or "How I made £200k"

super.landlady

LandyAndy wrote: »

The same as yours. A little light entertainment.

In your boss's time? Hmph!

super.landlady

PROPERTY_HOMEOWNING_CLASS wrote: »

Housepricecrash. It's a website run by a few fanatical extremists who are stupidly trying to initiate a crash in the UK economy and hence house prices just so they can pick up a dream house on the cheap from a distressed seller and his family. Basically they want you and me out our rightful houses so they can pick them up for peanuts.

Thanks for explaining that. Gosh I never knew such a thing existed. There are some really evil people in the world, Mr/Ms PHC.

PPPingu

just finished reading complete thread - that's 20 minutes that I'll never get back...
OP - i think your story is nice, but you need to be careful how you come across, and don't get dragged into responding to every comment you see - it's a but intense. I'd give it a break for 24 hours, then see if there is anything posted that you really want to respond to (but it's might just be perpetuating the conflict...)
negative comments - sad to see these, the OP doesnt merit all the negativity at all.

The_Blue_Hatter

super.landlady wrote: »

I think your envy glows like a beacon on a moonless night.

Poor you -- you don't have one single room to call your own!

And p.s. you don't have to be married to share living space. I have lived with a male partner for MANY years without going through a marriage ceremony. (Now you can attack me for THAT, as well LOL)

I am not attacking you over anything. You have chosen to live the way you do, renting parts of your house out to strangers and not being married. If that is what makes you happy then great, I am genuinely happy for you.

However you call yourself super.landlady and describe your story as "inspirational". The reason you are being mocked by the vast majority has nothing to do with the way you live your life but because you come across as a bit of an idiot and a delusion of grandeur.

Have a nice day.

kford224

I must say I am genuinely quite shocked at some of the responses on this thread...:(

The OP doesn't say "this is how everyone should live" or "why I am better than you", it is purely a tale of how someone has started off with very little and ended up in a situation that they didn't expect and are more than happy with! Simple as.

There really is no need for some people to be so rude and get so defensive.

LandyAndy

super.landlady wrote: »

In your boss's time? Hmph!

I asked him. He said it was fine;).

LandyAndy

The_Blue_Hatter wrote: »

I am not attacking you over anything. You have chosen to live the way you do, renting parts of your house out to strangers and not being married. If that is what makes you happy then great, I am genuinely happy for you.

However you call yourself super.landlady and describe your story as "inspirational". The reason you are being mocked by the vast majority has nothing to do with the way you live your life but because you come across as a bit of an idiot and a delusion of grandeur.

Have a nice day.

Indeed.:cool:

super.landlady

savingforoz wrote: »

If you have any tips you could give ref publishing your books, would you be kind enough to PM me?

I've taught whole-day seminars on how to self-publish a book, and I can't really condense all that into a PM. Much of it depends on whether you want to make money out of it or not. I specialise in helping people to publish in a way that makes money (or at least breaks even) rather than those who have thousands to waste on vanity publishing companies.

If pushed to give a few tips for people who can't afford to lose money, I'd say, firstly, make sure you have a market before putting any money into publishing a book. Without a readership, it's all utterly pointless. Secondly, if you are only going to break even, put the text up onto a website instead and give it away free of charge. This will remove all the anxiety and uncertainly about whether you will ever recoup your initial outlay.

Hope that helps!

hcb42

Great you are happy OP. I guess most people who bought about then have similar stories of acquired 'wealth' through the growing property prices, as someone said a while ago, not so easy to do these days. Also staggered at how cheap your first property was. My first property was bought almost ten years earlier a 2 up/2 down in a reasonable but not particularly desirable part of the NW (although well presented internally) and that cost me £20K even back then!

super.landlady

PPPingu wrote: »

don't get dragged into responding to every comment you see - it's a but intense. I'd give it a break for 24 hours, then see if there is anything posted that you really want to respond to (but it's might just be perpetuating the conflict...)
negative comments - sad to see these, the OP doesnt merit all the negativity at all.

Thanks Pingu, good advice there. However, it's hard to see personal attacks and accusations, most of them based on lies or misunderstandings, and just let them stand, uncorrected.

I suppose one feels that if one does not correct these things, people might misconstrue one's silence as acceptance of the criticism, or worse, that a lie told about one is, in fact, true.

But the bottom line is, you are absolutely right. I've said my piece, and IF my story is to be of use or joy to anyone, then my first post says everything I want to say.

I am today starting to write a new book, so won't have time to waste on here anyway.

Therefore, I am now leaving this thread and will never return to it, so I won't be responding to any more outrageous lies, undue criticisms, unfair accusations, nastiness and jealousy.

If anyone wants to contact me to ask a sensible question or make a useful comment, PM me please. Don't leave a message on the thread because I will never read it.

I will re-register under a different username in order to contribute to other threads now and again without having the jealous dogs on here chase me around the site.

Thanks to all the decent people who wrote sensible things. The rest of you will have to troll the rest of the forum now looking for new people to hate. Bye.