Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

chewmylegoff

Stick a vase full of twigs on the table and it will rent straight away.

Alternatively drop the price until someone rents it, clearly of the mortgage is £310 you can afford to accept much less than £650 and still cover your costs- better to end the void by renting it at £500 or even £400 for 6 months than to have it sitting empty. If the market is better in 6 months you can always hike the rent up and give your tenant notice if they decide to leave instead of accept rent increase (or try to rent it for £650pcm but with a discount of £200 for the first 3 or 6 months or something)?

PasturesNew

I'd rent it except: [a] I don't want to be there I couldn't afford it.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

, but its sometimes surprising to me how much the value of state edication is forgotten by people, which is a HUGE shame, because knowing the value of it is part of what is important imo. And one of the things lost in higher ed ( though i am reluctantly in agreement with tuition fees now imposed )

I often encountered students from overseas who realised automatically that free school education had to be grabbed and treasured.

They would be aghast when they saw how some local kids had no respect for it or concept of how valuable it was.

And when it came to higher ed, they had a very practical understanding of which degrees were valuable and which ones they would never dream of doing

zagubov

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It's been advertised just about everywhere now

I've handed it over to Airport Lettings to see if they can do anything now....

£310/month mortgage still needs paying, and things are getting desparate...

CK

Advertise it through a workplace;or ask the local education authority to let it to some teachers moving into the area. There's always somebody moving for work who needs a base until they find somewhere more permanent.:)

PasturesNew

I think I'm back to looking for a tourer caravan to live in ... rents are too pricey really.

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Advertise it through a workplace;or ask the local education authority to let it to some teachers moving into the area. There's always somebody moving for work who needs a base until they find somewhere more permanent.:)

Zag, you're a genius!

I'm a governor on the Sawbo school.

I've also put a note in the taxi office asking for drivers that want property, although I'm going to be a bit funny driver-wise about who it goes to

CK

CKhalvashi

I don't think I put this up last week, but remember out golden ticket to Amsterdam?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3B5pnpI2s&feature=related

Studio version now up. Going on iTunes on July 1st (the first day we're allowed to sell it)

I'll be in Switzerland in 6 hours for a round of meetings over the next 2 days :eek:

CK

silvercar

CKhalvashi wrote: »

It's been advertised just about everywhere now

I've handed it over to Airport Lettings to see if they can do anything now....

£310/month mortgage still needs paying, and things are getting desparate...

CK

I'm sure there is a tax saving hiding in there.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

I'm sure there is a tax saving hiding in there.

AIUI you can't offset the losses from BTL against other income. A way around it might be possible if self employed as I guess it could be possible to wrap the rent of the property and other self employment into one income and cost stream.

Get advice though. The Inland Revenue might want to see the property transferred to the company you would be using which might incur SDLT (stamp duty).

We have had a month's-worth of rain in a day over here last night. My back garden is under 6" of water. Viva will know what Aussie rain looks like. We've had it for 36 hours whereas normally it lasts an hour max. Perth had a pretty amazing storm last night too; entire blocks of flats had their rooves ripped off! I really love that pounding Aussie rain but this weekend I miss a steady English drizzle.

silvercar

AIUI you can't offset the losses from BTL against other income.

You can offset against other rental income, in the UK.

Or you could rent it to one of the other businesses.