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Rents Up Again - New Record High....

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  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    people who get money from savings don't actually work for it
    people who get money from share dividends don't actually work for it
    people who live on their pension don't actually work for it
    people who win the lottery don't actually work for it either
    people who run a rental business may or may not work very hard depending how many properties they have and how they choose to manage them

    how people use their capital it their own business and running a business that provides homes for people is very commendable
  • chucky
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    Percy1983 wrote: »
    But I would say its approx 400%.
    So you are charging the tax payer a 400% margin.

    Now that is serious greed if I ever saw it. Schools have little money anyway and you have a 400% margin.

    That's just taking advantage of the situation.
  • CLAPTON wrote: »
    it is very easy to criticise people that produce the
    essentials of life as one can say they make too much profit and exploit peoples
    'needs'





    however, what has more value to society : food, clothing, housing, transport
    or cheap trashy products or services?


    Builders build houses and provide the "essentials" .

    Landlords provide a service. They buy the "essential" and add their profit margin. Is that of any real value to Society?, not really as they just increase the cost of the "essential" to the end user.
  • chucky wrote: »
    So you are charging the tax payer a 400% margin.





    Now that is serious greed if I ever saw it. Schools have little money anyway
    and you have a 400% margin.





    That's just taking advantage of the situation.


    Unlike landlords?.........

    Least Percy has the b0llox to start his own business. What do you do Chucky?. Saddo sitting at a desk 8hrs a day wishing he the balls to "go on his own"...
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Builders build houses and provide the "essentials" .

    Landlords provide a service. They buy the "essential" and add their profit margin. Is that of any real value to Society?, not really as they just increase the cost of the "essential" to the end user.



    I would doubt that many houses would be built unless there were people willing to buy them.
    So yes, an absolutely essential service to society to enable people to have homes who for whatever reason don't own.
  • CLAPTON wrote: »
    I would doubt that many houses would be built unless
    there were people willing to buy them.


    So yes, an absolutely essential service to society to enable people to have
    homes who for whatever reason don't own.

    Jeezus Clapton your a genuis at "spin" your wasted in here you should be in Westminster.

    Plenty of people willing to buy but not at the over inflated prices.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Jeezus Clapton your a genuis at "spin" your wasted in here you should be in Westminster.

    Plenty of people willing to buy but not at the over inflated prices.


    Sadly you can't understand how people acting on their own initiative, has created the income that has made even the poorest here, rich beyond half the worlds dreams.
  • Plenty of people willing to buy but not at the over inflated prices.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    “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”
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    edited 16 November 2013 at 7:57PM
    Unlike landlords?.........

    Least Percy has the b0llox to start his own business. What do you do Chucky?. Saddo sitting at a desk 8hrs a day wishing he the balls to "go on his own"...
    Your heads gone :rotfl:

    You obviously think taking financial advantage of schools is good thing.
    Says a lot about you. Very sad.
  • :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


    So I take it you can't actually think of a reply so you just hit the smiley button 3 times...

    I'm surprised at you, you usually have so much to say.
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