Just moved (rented) and hate this house!

Sandhy

As per title ~ we've just moved from rented to rented. It was all in a rush due to my partner's job transfer and there' was nothing else available on our budget.
Fortunately it's only for 6 months and we can move on. We knew it wasn't quite right for us but at least it's got us into the area we want to be, which is an ok area
It feels awful though. Has anyone else moved and regretted their choice? Did you stick with it and tough it out, or up sticks as soon as possible?

missbiggles1

Presumably you're on an AST, so ASAP is 6 months. See how you feel in 4 months and if you feel the same, start looking.

I hated renting but the advantage is you don't need to be stuck anywhere for long.

coffeehound

What do you hate about it?

In answer to your question, yes I've hated most places where I've had to live. Being a single working person in the South East does that to you

booksurr

6 months is nothing

you have just moved area and started a new job. Your focus will be on settling in at work and you'll be amazed at how soon those 6 months pass and you can move again. Also of course bearing in mind that searching for a place you do like when coming to the end of the 6 months will be so concentrated you won't know what day of the week it is so you've only got 5 or less months to go...

unless of course you so hate it you are prepared to negotiate an early surrender with your LL and pay him (lots of) money to leave now?

Pixie5740

I moved into a flat a couple of years ago and it was pretty awful. Mostly because of the absolute !!!!!! upstairs and the racket he used to make or hours on end. I was so pleased that I was renting and only had to put up with it for 12 months. If I had bought the place (it did come up on the market when I was looking to buy and if I hadn't previously lived in it I would probably had put in an offer) I would have wept, instead I just counted down the day until I could leave. Mind you I did end up jumping from the frying pan into the fire with the next property.

Davesnave

You are in a much better place than someone who's bought a house and hates it, so be thankful for that.

I don't understand your question. Most people who rent nowadays have a 6 month AST and insufficient funds to just up-sticks and leave it empty because they don't like it!

It sounds as if your rental was a means to an end, and that's how you should view it.

Sandhy

Thanks for the replies so far
I agree we've had a lot to cope with because of the move, a new area and our jobs.
It's not rational but it's not just a crash pad. For us it's a home and it doesn't feel right. Hard to quantify feelings and a bit soppy really!
There's a lot of fixable niggles that are not going to be fixed and the letting agent is not following up. (If we had bought it we would be fixing them ourselves). They've got our money so there's no incentive...same old ,same old
As we'll probably move again asap I've drawn a line over stressing about it.
We're lacking space and the flow isn't right. We knew that might be an issue. At least we got the area right lol. Location, location. location.
If we're going to settle here it won't be in this house. There was very little choices on the market.

MERFE

Hated it here when we first moved in. It's so rural, didn't know anyone, have to drive to get anywhere and it was wet and miserable winter. Kids at the local school though means moving would be tricky and my husband is walking distance to work. 8 months on I love it, we have an allotment and got to know the other allotment holders, meet a few of the mums from the school, arranged some voluntary work starting in September so shouldn't get the dire winter blues again. fingers crossed we get to stay, it's unlikely any of the smaller properties will come up for sale though so we probably will have to move out the village when we are ready to buy and now that makes me sad.

Marvel1

The advantage is you are renting and can move, me on the other bought (mortgage), 8 Yeats ago, biggest regret I have made (very tight budget and spur of the moment), selling not an option\waste of time as there are now 5 houses in my street and none sold. Put if up for rent and it will gone straight away, but no chance I want to be a landlord.

Worse part this was in 2007 and crash happened after

elverson

If the letting agent isn't being helpful then contact your landlord directly (by email or in writing). A percentage of your monthly rent goes to the agent each month so they should be doing their job.

Their details might be in the paperwork or otherwise you can obtain the title register from the Land Registry for £3.

System

Me and my ex had finished our uni courses and needed somewhere to move into as our student places renting period ended end of June. I had a temp job, with a perm job starting in Sept. So couldn't go back to my parents, 90-100 miles away.

Everything we founded had 'available mid July' - useless for us as been homeless for a fortnight. Both his parents lived 10 miles away, but had no room to accommodate us.

Then we found a place with immediate move.

The place was a former council maisonette with single glazing, storage heaters, bathroom with no shower. It was freezing to live in, the storage heaters were useless and because the bath took ages to fill and to heat the water, despite countless of times complaining to the agency about it, we only had time in the morning for one of us. I refuse to live in a place with storage heaters and no place to install a shower again.

We hated the place and put up with the place for 22 months. We did look for alternative places, but we were saving for our own place and moving to another rental place would cost us more.