First time renting London 18 years old

olly300

Yackob94 wrote: »

Hmmm it does look to be rather unrealistic. I will look into shared housing, is there kind of site I can use to look at kind of setup?

Thanks for the advice guys

I don't know where you intended to live but it will take you from 1hr 20mins to 2hrs each way on the train to Camberley and cost you £12 per day with a Young Persons Rail Card. This is cheaper than you getting a pass. I haven't added on the time of getting to and from the train station as that is unknown. With the train you need to be prepared for long delays at least once a week.

Driving will take you about 1 hour 20mins each way but be prepared for accidents once a week making your journey double.

As Camberley is in Surrey you are looking at living in SW London i.e. Merton, Sutton.

The sites you are looking at will any of the room rental sites like spareroom.com Lots of shared accommodation will not take couples particularly young ones.

Idiophreak

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Letting agents, free ad websites, newspaper small ads, corner shop windows.

Also check the notice board at the uni - won't always be the nicest places to live, but normally pretty cheap. And rightmove have some...if you search for rentals then order by price ascending, they're normally the first results to show up...

Yackob94

As I work full time (study part time) if I went into shared housing and everything else was affordable, would I have to pay council tax for that shared house? If that is the case I think the question of "Is this feasible?" just go answered.

Sharon87

If it's a non student houseshare, the housemates would probably expect you to pay council tax as a term of moving in. But only a proportion, because otherwise their bills would go up, so that may put them off offering you the room.

If you find a student houseshare, and you all get your council tax exemption certificates, then no you wont have to pay council tax.

BitterAndTwisted

If you went into shared housing where all of the other residents were students and therefore exempt then you'd be the one picking up the full council tax bill.

Fire_Fox

Yackob94 wrote: »

As I work full time (study part time) if I went into shared housing and everything else was affordable, would I have to pay council tax for that shared house? If that is the case I think the question of "Is this feasible?" just go answered.

Depends on the arrangement. If you are classed as one household with the other residents (one AST) you would end up having to pay 75-100% of the council tax for the whole house. :eek: But if you were classed as individual households like in an HMO you might only be liable for the council tax for your and your girlfriend's room/ bedsit or it might be included in the rent. Plus a houseful of students don't necessarily keep the same hours as a nine to five employee.

Living together is not all it's cracked up to be, especially not in one room, especially not if you are tired or stressed from lengthy commutes or exams. It's nice at the start because you see a lot more of each other, but you end up with a lot of conversations revolving around domestic matters like doing the laundry, whose turn it is to clean the toilet and when you go to the supermarket. If one is a student IMO you need your own space with no distractions and enough storage.

Yackob94

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Depends on the arrangement. If you are classed as one household with the other residents (one AST) you would end up having to pay 75-100% of the council tax for the whole house. :eek: But if you were classed as individual households like in an HMO you might only be liable for the council tax for your and your girlfriend's room/ bedsit or it might be included in the rent. Plus a houseful of students don't necessarily keep the same hours as a nine to five employee.

Living together is not all it's cracked up to be, especially not in one room, especially not if you are tired or stressed from lengthy commutes or exams. It's nice at the start because you see a lot more of each other, but you end up with a lot of conversations revolving around domestic matters like doing the laundry, whose turn it is to clean the toilet and when you go to the supermarket. If one is a student IMO you need your own space with no distractions and enough storage.

Yes, you make valid points. Last thing either of us would need is added stress. Might have to look at getting a place closer to home by myself perhaps. Thanks for the advice and help!

chewmylegoff

martinsurrey wrote: »

A 12 month season ticket for both is about £4,500 (a zone 1-4 for her and a Richmond Camberley for you)

Prices in Richmond are pretty expensive though

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-35587240.html

and thats the only one under £900...

on the plus side, they would be my neighbours...

she could get away with a zone 1-3 from there as north sheen station is just as close as richmond. there isn't really much difference in terms of the time of the commute to and from vauxhall. 5 minutes maybe. saves £300 a year...

but yeah, richmond is not the place to go to find affordable housing. mortlake/east sheen is cheaper but then the commute out to camberley becomes significantly worse as you would need to get a train to richmond and change there which would add on another 15 mins at least.

FTBFun

outtawork wrote: »

My DD is sharing a 1 bedroomed flat in Woolwich & is costing them £900 per month, then bills on top. You may need a guarantor or have to pay 6 months in advance

Not particulary useful given that Camberley is the other side of London.

I agree with olly's post earlier.

MrLlama

Back to OPs original question, there are very few options IMO. Someone gave an example of Richmond which is an expensive area of SW London, but even if you live somewhere cheaper in SW London such as Feltham this leave you with about a 40-50 minute train commute and your GF about the same. You could get a reasonable 1 bed flat for £800-900/month in this area.

As said above you'd be responsible for the council tax which would cost you £60-80 per month depending on property band. A season ticket would cost £250/month. After all other necessary expenses this would leave you with very little or nothing to spend on anything else.