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Property price war - Daily Mail lays into it's readers

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  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    wotsthat wrote: »
    They just said 'readers' not readers with investment & flying experience.

    Well, presumably most don't need it spelling out to them?
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    It's the members that count Hamish.

    77 members in just the last 30 minutes alone.

    How many do you think will log on over a few days?
    Guest's don't really count as users!! !

    I think they count as "readers". :)
    “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”
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Well, presumably most don't need it spelling out to them?

    It's actually stupider than I thought..

    http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-2330820/The-best-buy-let-mortgage-deals-UK-towns-highest-rental-yields.html
    A major survey by The Mail on Sunday among prospective and existing buy-to-let investors indicates most are using, or planning to use, bricks and mortar to generate income rather than capital growth.

    So those thinking about BTL or already into BTL think BTL is great.

    Who buys this rag?
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    the_flying_pig wrote: »
    it's obviously not true that two thirds of all people are using BTL.

    it's just mathematically impossible.

    imagine a population of 100 people - if 66 of them are into BTL that only leaves 33 people to be tenants.

    of course it's possible for a small survey group somewhere to have 2/3rds of people into BTL.

    They could all be renting the properties from each other though. Works nicely if you are an MP and don't actually have to pay the rent...
  • IveSeenTheLight
    IveSeenTheLight Posts: 13,322 Forumite
    the_flying_pig wrote: »
    it's obviously not true that two thirds of all people are using BTL.

    it's just mathematically impossible.

    imagine a population of 100 people - if 66 of them are into BTL that only leaves 33 people to be tenants.

    of course it's possible for a small survey group somewhere to have 2/3rds of people into BTL.

    Whilst I agree with you, I am a landlord and a tenant at the moment
    :wall:
    What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
    Some men you just can't reach.
    :wall:
  • pqrdef
    pqrdef Posts: 4,552 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Do like the press having a pop at their readers though!
    If I post a comment to an article on a DM website, I don't think that really makes me a DM reader. It certainly doesn't mean there's any chance of me buying a copy.

    We can assume that the first article was designed to provoke a reaction and that links to it were planted in suitable places. The second article was already planned before the first was published.

    It's the old trick of building tribal loyalty by creating an enemy. See also immigration, Nazism etc.
    "It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis
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