How to tell if neighbours own or rent?

rosyw

DaftyDuck wrote: »

I've read enough threads on these Forums to be able to tell easily!

• Nice car, smart clothes, leave at 8am for work, back at six, well-kept garden... definitely home-owner.
  
• Older car, supermarket clothes, only out half the day, grass uncut... definitely renting!
  
• Those with junk in the front garden, scruffy as heck, unshaven and smelly, always at home.... those are bound to be social tenants!
  
• Oh, and then there are foreigners... but we don't want to go there, nor live near there... or mention them!

Well - I have a small amount of junk to the side of my driveway, back garden is a bit of a mess right now, no car, clothes bought in the sales, home all day. I'm 60, have a bad back which stops me
doing the garden or clearing the junk at times, don't drive so don't have a car,cheap clothes as I'm on a tight budget - should put me in the "rent" category - nope - I own my place outright.

Daughter & son in law, nice cars, decent clothes, out to work AT LEAST 9 hours a day - each, house, garden & kids immaculate-they rent!

What the hell does it matter if someone owns or rent their HOME?
Why are people so obsessed with this? IT DOESN'T MATTER!! What DOES matter is whether or not they're nice people, I know a lot of lovely people who rent and some absolute to****rs who own their homes.

BTW I've live in my current place for 6 year and will leave when they carry me out in a box, I lived in my previous home for 24 years, would still be there now if I could afford the running costs!

DaftyDuck

rosyw... Given you've only quoted the first part of my post, I think you might just have missed how much my cheek was bulging, my tongue was shoved so firmly in it!

Mortgage_Moog

suki1964 wrote: »

Why can't you believe people are living in the same house for 15 years?

I've been in mine 12 and have no intention of moving till I'm doddering

My sister has been in hers for nearly 30 years

My mum was in hers for 25 years...

Man around the corner was born and died in his house, his son has lived next door for 30 odd years

The people living here are mainly in their 20's and 30's so they can't have owned for too long, not over 15 years. I'm curious because when I moved in I was told it was all privately owned but I'm wondering whether some rent and some own.

rosyw

DaftyDuck wrote: »

rosyw... Given you've only quoted the first part of my post, I think you might just have missed how much my cheek was bulging, my tongue was shoved so firmly in it!

Ooops -sorry - cut too much of your post I had realised you had your tongue very firmly jammed into your cheek :T & my post perhaps came across the wrong way.

There does seem to be a surplus of people on here who think there's a difference between those that own and those that rent, gone are the days when the "norm" was to buy as soon as you left home, some folks need to realise that.

pinkteapot

Mortgage_Moog wrote: »

The people living here are mainly in their 20's and 30's so they can't have owned for too long, not over 15 years. I'm curious because when I moved in I was told it was all privately owned but I'm wondering whether some rent and some own.

"privately owned" could have just been used as a way of saying "not council houses"...

AdrianC

pinkteapot wrote: »

"privately owned" could have just been used as a way of saying "not council houses"...

*ding*
I bet all the tenanted properties are "privately owned", too.

pawlala

DaftyDuck wrote: »

[*]Older car, supermarket clothes, only out half the day, grass uncut... definitely renting!

Hey! that's me! :mad:

I like to run down my cars until they fall to pieces, never ever buy expensive shirts, cut my grass only once every two weeks and work at home a lot. And I definately own my own home!:rotfl:

carlislelass

Nobody's business

lisa110rry

Got to stick my oar in here, for what it's worth.

I have lived in my home for 30 years in February 2017, we own it outright. My cars are a 2002 Honda CR-V and a 1999 Mercedes SLK (I love it, in fact I love them both!) - though we do have a 2015 Tiguan also.

My bedroom curtains are drawn when I get in from work (to change into dog walking clothes) when it's dark as it is now, and remain drawn until after morning dog walk, coffee, shower and dressing for work.

Most of the houses in my part of the lane are owner occupied, but I wouldn't care if they weren't. In fact I'm much more worried about the house next door which is empty because both occupants were taken to a care home. That house seems so sad and is beginning to look a little un-cared-for, now it's getting cold.

LEJC

Mortgage_Moog wrote: »

The people living here are mainly in their 20's and 30's so they can't have owned for too long, not over 15 years. I'm curious because when I moved in I was told it was all privately owned but I'm wondering whether some rent and some own.

so what you have been told is there is no social housing in the area.

I privately own several properties...and privately rent them out.

and for what its worth...my own home,where we live is probably the one thats the least maintained of them all....

what you need to be more concerned with is not whether a property is owner occupied or tenanted....empty is the challenging ones!