Why do people resent buy-to-letters so much?

chucknorris

HENRY78 wrote: »

I am in a new relationship after going though a messy divorce.

6 months ago I was in some financial difficulty. No ccjs or defaults but I was 3 missed payments on a loan at 230 a month. I agreed to pay 75 a month for a short period of time.

HENRY78 wrote: »

I am pretty successful in my own right, My Mrs comes from a very wealthy family through hard work.

Seems to be a couple of discrepancies in your posts above, so have you married again or did you go back to your wife? You didn't mean that you were financially successful then?

Generali

FWIW I've got lower second in economics, a drinker's degree. I've run a couple of hedge funds and now I'm an analyst currently writing economic models as to how COP21 could impact on share prices.

I have sacrificed little and don't really see what impact on my career some Protestant denial would have had.

cells

HENRY78 wrote: »

My mrs father came from nothing but through hard work and sacrifice became FD for a multi national company. Brilliant story actually and very inspirational. My Mrs works very hard also and does well for herself.


My wall street broker friend is the cleverest most impressive person I know. Lived on the same street as me as a kid, got a job at Deutche bank after graduating with 1st class honours is economics. A couple of years ago got headhunted by a broker on Wall street. He is living the dream with his lovely family in NYC. He deserved everything hes got.

monkeysphere

chucknorris

cells wrote: »

monkeysphere

what is monkeysphere?

makeyourdaddyproud

HENRY78 wrote: »

Well im pretty normal and balanced I would like to think so is the company I spend time with.


You crack on with what you are doing and if your happy in life good for you.


But don't expect people to like your business and not resent you in a time where a young couple earning good money cannot buy their own property and subsequently are forced into renting off people like you to pay for your lifestyle.


Lets leave it there Chuck!!

What's the big deal? You seem to be the only one stressing over it. You mentioned you were doing well through family (even though an earlier post contradicted this), yet you are directing angst at someone who's done well in property investment?

I only blame myself I wasn't more proactive in investing in property sooner, with my inherited wealth.

If a market is there to protect your future, seize it - otherwise someone else will.

wotsthat

chucknorris wrote: »

what is monkeysphere?

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

michaels

Ummm guys...form the following words into a sentence:

troll the feed don't

mwpt

wotsthat wrote: »

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

Heheh, some brilliant lines in there.

Later, a far more realistic man sat the monkeys down and said, "You want bananas? Each of you go get your own. I'm taking a nap." That man, of course, was German philosopher Hans Capitalism.

As long as everybody gets their own bananas and shares with the few in their Monkeysphere, the system will thrive even though nobody is even trying to make the system thrive. This is perhaps how Ayn Rand would have put it, had she not been such a hateful !!!!!.

cells

chucknorris wrote: »

what is monkeysphere?

It is the idea that primates can only hold onto a limited number of meaningful relationships. Sometimes called the monkeysphere as some scientist found a relationship between primate brain sizes and how big their social group was. For humans it is estimated to be about 150

People in your monkeysphere you care quite a lot about people outside almost none at all.

An example being if someones friend dies that hurts them a lot for a long time but if an earthquake kills 10,000 people it hardly gets a real response other than maybe saying in your mind (thats a tragedy) while sipping your morning coffee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

caronoel

HENRY78 wrote: »

Dalston was a hole. Very affordable back then. As was places like Wapping. Clapham slightly more but most people could buy a flat there. Not now!!

Depends on what part of Clapham you are looking at.

Still a lot of good value housing in the Clapham Junction area, as you move from Grant road to the river.

The council is spending a lot of money in rejuvenating the Winstanley estate, and Crossrail 2 will mean that the area will continue to gentrify over the medium term.

Augurs well for house price growth