council rent rip off

seven-day-weekend

Tori_Bellatrix wrote: »

Absolutely! They are very reasonable compared to the private sector and in some cases, Housing Association rents.

Certainly. I wish my son could get one! But single people without children stand no chance.

Biggles

barjam wrote: »

they apparently dont divide the rent like we would but they use a multiplier

Maybe what you're saying is that they don't divide the year by 52 to get the weekly rent, but divide by 365 and multiply by 7 (or a variation on those if you're talking about 51 or 53 weeks)?

Both are acceptable methods, neither is right or wrong, the latter is actually slightly more accurate but people more often use the former as it's simpler.

changkra

edthedead wrote: »

My mortgage has gone up approxiamtely £100 a month in the last year...

Mine went up £50 so i changed it and i now save £100 amonth

asea

i actually thought the OP was joking - I didn't think that anyone would seriously put that up there & expect people to sympathise!

knobby40

lidlest wrote: »

Council tenants don't live in the real world? Council tenants don't work? Council tenants can't sort themselves out?

Whatever.

Not sure where you got your information from but just to correctly inform you, we are council tenants, live in a very real world, we both work full time, and we have sorted ourselves (and our 2 children out) since we have left school and college. Unfortunately, we dont earn great salaries and are unable to afford a mortgage in an area we would like to live in. So we bring our children up on a council estate and put a lot of effort into bringing them up to respect and be grateful for the property and area we live in, (things could be much worse) and hopefully they will never be as judgemental to people and situations, as yourself!!;)

LittleVoice

In my reading of the post, Lidlest used question marks and wasn't making statements that the sentences were facts. In fact the opposite, the Lidlest post could be read as wanting to contradict an earlier post which could be read as suggesting those things.

lidlest

knobby40 wrote: »

Not sure where you got your information from but just to correctly inform you, we are council tenants, live in a very real world, we both work full time, and we have sorted ourselves (and our 2 children out) since we have left school and college. Unfortunately, we dont earn great salaries and are unable to afford a mortgage in an area we would like to live in. So we bring our children up on a council estate and put a lot of effort into bringing them up to respect and be grateful for the property and area we live in, (things could be much worse) and hopefully they will never be as judgemental to people and situations, as yourself!!;)

I live in a council house, both myself and my partner work full time. I wasn't judging if you read my post correctly you will see that I am responding to a quote and am in no way agreeing with the supposition that council tenants do not live in the real world.

iwanttosave_2

My council rent has gone up £6 a week this year, lets swap