Rental nightmare - Prices are totally out of control

nabberuk_2

expensive area, expensive to rent, expensive to buy. Simples.

kidmugsy

lloydyd wrote: »

Yes im sure i could get a 3 bed and yes at a push one of my 3 children could share, but i dont think thats fair

Those of us who shared throughout boyhood might wonder why you think that somebody else should pay you a subsidy so that your children don't have to.

gazter

enginesuck wrote: »

i dont know how you do it ! you can pay a mortgage on a 4 bed detached for about 700 quid a month in other parts of the country !

True. My four bedroom country Georgian house costs me £709 a month in mortgage.

xoAmyox

I know from experience that children don't need their own bedrooms.

You say you want to buy but can't afford it, but equally, you won't compromise on what you think 'should' be your standard of living.

You can't have it all ways, so either earn more, or spend less.

lloydyd

thanks, some great replies and some not so great but thats opinion.

I do earn good money but the cost of living does cripple me as im sure it does most folks at the moment. My rent is £1575 per month plus council tax of £255 per month and when you take the usual bills im still left with precious little.

My house is a 4 bed detached in hatfiled and weve been here for 2 1/2 years but due to the LL and the problems we have with him and the fact that he has given us notice, we are having to look again.

The issue is that while my rent is generally pretty cheap (for the area and the size of the house), and the fact that to find something similar would now cost around £2.5K so im basically priced out of getting anything decent.

I wont move my familly to a sh*t hole as a lot of Hatfield is pretty ugly, call me a snob, but I wouldnt feel safe in some of the areas. My kids go to school here and borehamwood and I wont move them out of a school they love so im pretty stuck really.

ognum

lloydyd wrote: »

thanks, some great replies and some not so great but thats opinion.

I do earn good money but the cost of living does cripple me as im sure it does most folks at the moment. My rent is £1575 per month plus council tax of £255 per month and when you take the usual bills im still left with precious little.

My house is a 4 bed detached in hatfiled and weve been here for 2 1/2 years but due to the LL and the problems we have with him and the fact that he has given us notice, we are having to look again.

The issue is that while my rent is generally pretty cheap (for the area and the size of the house), and the fact that to find something similar would now cost around £2.5K so im basically priced out of getting anything decent.

I wont move my familly to a sh*t hole as a lot of Hatfield is pretty ugly, call me a snob, but I wouldnt feel safe in some of the areas. My kids go to school here and borehamwood and I wont move them out of a school they love so im pretty stuck really.

Plenty of 3 beds for under £1400 in Borehamwood. We are all limited by what we can afford.

You do have choices you just don't want to take them.

Smaller house and keep children in the schools they are in.

Move to bigger house and move children's schools.

Make peace with your landlord and stay where you are.

Get extra income somehow, evening or weekend work.

Cut down on household expences, better budgeting.


Things can't stay the same which appears to be what you want but you are not stuck you need to make choices.

DTDfanBoy

It seems to me that you aren't willing to compromise on anything and insist on maintaining a lifestyle you can't actually afford. By all means continue to spend every penny you earn maintaining your lifestyle, but if you choose that option it's a bit rich claiming how unfair everything is.


My wife and I lived in a dirt cheap accommodation for years while saving up for a house, our last place was a tiny flat in the centre of town above a pizza shop. Now days our ten year old Corolla sits on the driveway of our house, which is lovely as I used to have to walk for ten minutes after parking the car in the nearest free parking spot.


The bloke across the road rents his house, for similar money to what you're quoting, he's also got a shiny new Range Rover parked on the drive, he get's a new one on lease every few years.


I hope he doesn't plan on knocking on my door and ranting about how unfair it is that his landlord has raised his rent yet again :eek:

poppasmurf_bewdley

Yet here in rural Worcestershire, a cottage rental near me for £500 per month for a two bedroom with ample off road parking, central heating, double glazing, beautiful views, stood empty and took six months to let out.

It's all supply and demand.

Annie1960

Your perceived problem is of your own making as you expect to have a lifestyle you can't afford.

Lily-Rose_3

kidmugsy wrote: »

Those of us who shared throughout boyhood might wonder why you think that somebody else should pay you a subsidy so that your children don't have to.

^^^ THIS.

I know many families (mine included) who had sometimes THREE children sharing one room, and in several families it was four sharing. (Two sets of bunk beds.)

It's this 'entitled-to' culture we live in now that is the problem. People thinking that every person in the house (children included) should have a bedroom each.

And hardly anyone can afford to live around the London area and surrounding areas; most people move to an area they can afford.

And to the OP; this whiney 'it's not fair' attitude, couple with 'my children should not have to share a bedroom!' attitude makes me a lot less sympathetic. Also, you have moved 14 times in 17 years?! Why? I am no fan of landlords and find some of them moneygrabbers and the agents too. But I wonder if this is more about you than them. Moving that many times in that many years suggests to me that you are the problem.