First time renting - Help please

Allumis

Work have been rubbish, they won't give me any funding or help towards the move and I've yet to be put in touch with my new line manager.

I have the money to do it I just feel robbed paying such high fees for someone to print off a contract and have me sign it. I never experienced fees like this as a student, heck places were offering bills and Internet included no fees and reduced deposits just to get people through the doors!

So am I pretty much condemned to looking on zoopla/rightmove for properties?

Guest101

Allumis wrote: »

Stacking shelves at your local supermarket for £6,800 per annum vs working as an IT Analyst for £21k imo is a promotion. :j

I think it's going to be a case of accepting the excessively high fees and using some of my savings not ideal as I feel as though I'm getting nothing of value for my money. It's worlds away from when I was a student and paid no fees only a deposit.

Well that's apples and oranges.


In Job A: you aren't working full time, you are living at home (presumably cheaply) and could have found a second job (or equivalent paid job closer to home)


Job B: is a ok wage, but nothing to write home about in Manchester. And I wouldn't call it a promotion, it's a completely different role. I could be wrong, but I doubt your line manager saw you stacking shelves and thought "He/She has done an excellent job there, I think i'll recommend them to the IT Dept"


When you consider your new living costs, will you be any better off?


If I was offered a job at £21,000 in Manchester I would turn it down.

melstar11

Really? In many industries that would be a very good salary for a less experienced worker.

HappyMJ

Allumis wrote: »

Work have been rubbish, they won't give me any funding or help towards the move and I've yet to be put in touch with my new line manager.

I have the money to do it I just feel robbed paying such high fees for someone to print off a contract and have me sign it. I never experienced fees like this as a student, heck places were offering bills and Internet included no fees and reduced deposits just to get people through the doors!

So am I pretty much condemned to looking on zoopla/rightmove for properties?

Students tend to rent HMO's though so would expect all bills to be included with broadband.

Deposits for students aren't required if they have a home owning guarantor who would guarantee any rent and any damages would be paid for.

£21,000 in Central Manchester isn't going to go far. I'd rather live here where I am in the Midlands earning much less (when I can actually be bothered to work - I work on average one day per week) and have more money left over each month and not pay such high amounts in rent but at the same time live in a good quality near new build property.

PasturesNew

When moving to a new area it's best to book a cheap B&B for 2-3 weeks in the first instance - you should be able to find something for, say, under £30/night. Use those 2-3 weeks to ask around and look online for shared houses and get yourself into a shared house after about 3 weeks.

Then use the next 4-5 months or so to get used to work, get some savings behind you and find out the good/bad areas and where you want to live.

Then look for a studio/1-bed flat in those areas.

2-bed flats aren't for single people moving into new areas, they're for couples, with cash to flash.

Person_one

£21,000 is plenty to live off in Manchester. I live comfortably on 22.5, with a mortgage and a car.

Anywhere inside the inner ring road is pricey though. Even the bits that used to be considered a bit rough (where I used to live being one!) are now 'desirable' and there's as much building work and as many new developments going up as there was in 2006/2007.

Whereabouts in the city centre is your job?

HappyMJ

melstar11 wrote: »

Really? In many industries that would be a very good salary for a less experienced worker.

IT analyst? That could be considered what I do. I'm a technical systems analyst. I charge £25/hour or £200/day. Many others charge £400/day. The first line call centre staff straight out of uni get around £21,000/year.

Allumis

It won't be a great increase in terms of money I'll be worse off living out of my parents than living in Manchester. However my parents live in the countryside the nearest town in an hour on the bus and we have one bus every hour. It's not exactly a great place to live in your 20's.

Having been finished university (BA 2.1 in business management and an MA in Business Creation and Enterprise) for almost 8 years a large portion of which was spend on the dole/JSA any shot at a "real" job I've got to take with both hands.

Perhaps your experience and qualifications lean to a much higher value wage than I've got the experience or qualifications to achieve

Allumis

My job will be in be Arndale Centre it's a junior role for the first 3-6 months while training and then once signed off as capable their should be a pay rise.

HappyMJ

Allumis wrote: »

It won't be a great increase in terms of money I'll be worse off living out of my parents than living in Manchester. However my parents live in the countryside the nearest town in an hour on the bus and we have one bus every hour. It's not exactly a great place to live in your 20's.

Having been finished university (BA 2.1 in business management and an MA in Business Creation and Enterprise) for almost 8 years a large portion of which was spend on the dole/JSA any shot at a "real" job I've got to take with both hands.

Perhaps your experience and qualifications lean to a much higher value wage than I've got the experience or qualifications to achieve

Well you're more qualified than me.