The Aberdeen House Prices & Rents thread

Crashy_Time

wotsthat wrote: »

Sorry about that. I'll repost...

20 years and c£90,000 to live in places none of which he's liked enough to have wanted to stay and now in an area where benefit claimants get more to spend on rent and loads of places are boarded up.

...and he's got a thing about Hamish and Aberdeen. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

To be honest I don't think the correction makes your position look the slightest bit better.

Nah, you are still way off, in that time I have owned a house which I let out while living in student halls (very cheap, and the rent I got was more than the rent I paid) and I had a period of free accommodation provided by an employer, plus many of the flats/houses I have lived in since say 2000 were shared and the room would have cost me less (way less) than 400p.m, so any way you want to slice it my pocket hasn`t been hurting too much.

wotsthat

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Nah, you are still way off, in that time I have owned a house which I let out while living in student halls (very cheap, and the rent I got was more than the rent I paid) and I had a period of free accommodation provided by an employer, plus many of the flats/houses I have lived in since say 2000 were shared and the room would have cost me less (way less) than 400p.m, so any way you want to slice it my pocket hasn`t been hurting too much.

I assumed you'd averaged £400/ month over the years because that's what you said.

danothy wrote: »

If your rent was £400/month in 2000 then you were effectively overpaying back then by about 50% in terms of purchasing power if what you are paying now is realistic and fair.

Crashy_Time wrote: »

No, that is just the average over the years. I paid 350 p.m for a small flat in 1998, I thought that seemed expensive, so I moved to a very large room in a HMO/bedsit for about 200 or 250 a month, then rented a series of houses and flats with people I knew, then went back to a large flat (1 bed and boxroom) for 400 p.m (rising to 450 p.m not long before I left) Now I pay 400 p.m for a flat similar in size to the 1998 flat. The point is that rent on basic Edinburgh flats has gone nowhere in all that time, that`s all.

Crashy_Time

wotsthat wrote: »

I assumed you'd averaged £400/ month over the years because that's what you said.

I didn`t say over 20 years though.

wotsthat

Crashy_Time wrote: »

I didn`t say over 20 years though.

So £400/ month average since 1998 but only a couple of hundred quid average for the last 20 years?

Why not get a whiteboard so you can keep on top of your ever changing backstory?

Crashy_Time

wotsthat wrote: »

So £400/ month average since 1998 but only a couple of hundred quid average for the last 20 years?

Why not get a whiteboard so you can keep on top of your ever changing backstory?

I think I once posted the actual amount of rent paid since 1998, but I can`t really be bothered again. But the main point is that rent wasn`t £400 p.m 20 years ago. Are you able to understand that without a calculator?

wotsthat

Crashy_Time wrote: »

I think I once posted the actual amount of rent paid since 1998, but I can`t really be bothered again. But the main point is that rent wasn`t £400 p.m 20 years ago. Are you able to understand that without a calculator?

It's not a surprise that (a) you have no idea how much you've paid in rent and have no idea what crash you now need to breakeven or (b) you have an ever changing backstory although I expect that's related to not having a clue as per (a) rather than lying.

I can't find where you posted your total rent but have now found you saying your rent averaged £400 as well as £350. Can we agree on this one below?

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Being a simple soul I just know that my average rental payment over 17 years is around 350 p.m, and if rates did rise and my landlord went bust (or tried to double the rent :rotfl:) it wouldn`t take long to find another cheap empty BTL (there are a few in the block actually)

That was a year ago so 17 years @ £350 and 1 year at £400. That's an average of £352.78 per month over 18 years.

Glad we sorted that - with apologies I'll correct my post..

[STRIKE]20[/STRIKE] 18 years and [STRIKE]c90,000[/STRIKE] £76,200 to live in places none of which he's liked enough to have wanted to stay and now in an area where benefit claimants get more to spend on rent and loads of places are boarded up.

...and he's got a thing about Hamish and Aberdeen. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.

I think the basic point remains the same but accuracy is important.

mwpt

Maybe he has been house sharing for 18 years. I house shared in London for a long time. It's a good way to save money. Of course another good way to save money is to invent a time machine and buy a house in Hackney in 2002. The house will get on with the hard work of earning the income while you can work in the boutique coffee shop and retire early.

wotsthat

mwpt wrote: »

Maybe he has been house sharing for 18 years. I house shared in London for a long time. It's a good way to save money. Of course another good way to save money is to invent a time machine and buy a house in Hackney in 2002. The house will get on with the hard work of earning the income while you can work in the boutique coffee shop and retire early.

Which, strange as it might sound, a different poster (co-incidentally also Edinburgh based and a big Hamish fan) actually did invent a time machine a few years ago and went back in time to buy. Yes, really.

Crashy isn't in need of a time machine to buy at cheaper prices. He was already an owner, sold up in his early thirties and house shared by choice since. Crashy is a chap that's made a lifestyle choice to live cheap, save hard and never ever get himself into debt again and, of course, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Don't be fooled - house hunter in waiting he ain't.

robmatic

mwpt wrote: »

Maybe he has been house sharing for 18 years. I house shared in London for a long time. It's a good way to save money. Of course another good way to save money is to invent a time machine and buy a house in Hackney in 2002. The house will get on with the hard work of earning the income while you can work in the boutique coffee shop and retire early.

I bought in Edinburgh in 2010 and for the first couple of years rented out my spare room to a lodger. The cash I got from them covered the mortgage payments so I was basically living there for free :beer:

So, yes, I would agree that house sharing can be a good way to save money but you don't necessarily need to be a tenant in an HMO to do this.

danothy

I too am confused about Crashy's rent history:

Jan 2015:

Crashy_Time wrote: »

My rent has been average 400 p.m for many years

Feb 2015:

Crashy_Time wrote: »

My rent is the same as it was 15 years ago

Crashy_Time wrote: »

I am paying £50 p.m more for a similar flat than I was 15 years ago.

Jan 2016:

Crashy_Time wrote: »

many of the flats/houses I have lived in since say 2000 were shared and the room would have cost me less (way less) than 400p.m