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Sick of being 'fleeced' by the private rental sector.
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I want an alternative to renting a house.
I travelled with my OH in Oz for a year in a campervan and had the best sleep of my life!
I pay £700 for a rented house in the private sector and this does not make me happy, I will invariably always have neighbours (banging doors, music & the like) that will keep me awake.
The problem is I have a 2 year old daughter now and the situation is somewhat different.
UK house situation sucks!
How would you like the UK house situation to change? I'm not sure what it is you're looking for and what other countries have which you'd like.0 -
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I pay £700 for a rented house in the private sector and this does not make me happy, I will invariably always have neighbours (banging doors, music & the like) that will keep me awake.
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As a matter of interest is rent paid via Housing Benefit?
If it is one should not complain.
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Most definately not! why would you think that????QUOTE
I pay £700 for a rented house in the private sector and this does not make me happy, I will invariably always have neighbours (banging doors, music & the like) that will keep me awake.
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As a matter of interest is rent paid via Housing Benefit?
If it is one should not complain.
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Still want to know how OP has been fleeced.It's someone else's fault.0
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Still want to know how OP has been fleeced.
£700 for a modest house is not what I call reasonable, are you aware that rent is increasing every month in the private sector? Why??? Because they can! People will always need a roof over thier head and the buying situation means no-one can afford to buy.0 -
£700 for a HOUSE seems fantastic value to me...... wish i could get even a one bed flat for that where we are!
(and if there weren't all these people letting out homes, where would you have lived when you came back? you can't buy somewhere overnight. if everything was only ever owner occupied, those of us who don't choose to tie ourselves down by buying would be in a lot of bother!):happyhear0 -
£700 for a modest house is not what I call reasonable, are you aware that rent is increasing every month in the private sector? Why??? Because they can! People will always need a roof over thier head and the buying situation means no-one can afford to buy.
I've been renting my flat for over three years without any increase. I pay £575 for a one bedroom flat which would cost about £130,000 in my area. That means my rent is a long way under what a mortgage would cost me. That is perfectly reasonable. Fleecing someone is fraud, I doubt very much if you've been defrauded.It's someone else's fault.0 -
I want an alternative to renting a house.
I pay £700 for a rented house in the private sector and this does not make me happy
The problem is I have a 2 year old daughter now and the situation is somewhat different.
UK house situation sucks!Actually I sold a house to fund the travel!
Wow..... Just, wow.
My mind is officially boggled.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
£700 would get you a studio where i live, so it isn't that bad.
If you don't like UK housing then its probably best move to another country. You spent you moeny you had from a house you owned, had a good time, and came back and you can't afford to buy now, thats your problem unfortunately.
If you were looking for ideas of other ways to live, you would have been better off with a different title and different OP, as no one here is sympathetic to your needs.0
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