Why the bad news for landlords is just beginning

ukcarper

economic wrote: »

do you agree that if a nurse really wanted to buy and all she could afford was a run down poor and dangerous area, that she should be able to afford mroe then that and its not right that thats all she can afford?

I think it would be better if she could afford a reasonable property in a reasonable area, but as things are she wouldn't be able to buy anywhere in London . That doesn't mean I think it that will happen anytime soon if ever or that there is a practical way of achieving it. But I don't think it's unreasonable to want people to have secure affordable accomadation.

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

how can you sleep at night? if you think i am selfish and unsympathetic then i hope you can live with so many others who are much worse then you think i am!

lifes tough. its also unfair. its just the way it is. nurses not being able to buy in a decent area does not get any sympathies from me!!

As per UkCarper, you just keep ignoring what is being said and repeating the same thing over and over. I don't know how many more times it can be explained to you that myself and others aren't advocating being able to buy some penthouse somewhere, but rather somewhere with just a bit more security than the studio you found.

Out of interest - the studio you found our nurse in West Croydon (Broad Green) from police stats:

"Violent crime blights the town centre, according to the data, though Broad Green also has high levels of violence. The Met says violent crime includes murder, wounding and grievous bodily harm, assault with injury, common assault, as well as possession of an offensive weapon and harassment."

You wanna spend £175,000 to live there in a room with a pulldown bed? Oh actually, sorry, if you are a recent graduate in most professions you can't even afford to do that. This is the issue. This is why the bubble will pop, it's just when.

Windofchange

economic wrote: »

you come across as a very nasty and bitter person. why?

After all you've written in the past couple of weeks regarding the homeless, less fortunate, key workers? :rotfl:

westernpromise

Nobody on a nurse's salary is any more able to buy than a nurse is. Do we agree that a nurse has no special, i.e. greater entitlement to buy than anyone on a similar salary?

If so, why is it about nurses?

ukcarper

westernpromise wrote: »

Nobody on a nurse's salary is any more able to buy than a nurse is. Do we agree that a nurse has no special, i.e. greater entitlement to buy than anyone on a similar salary?

If so, why is it about nurses?

Nurse it just an example perhaps. I don't think anybody has an entitlement to buy just that it would be better if everybody access to secure affordable accommodation and if more people could buy even better.

Windofchange

westernpromise wrote: »

Nobody on a nurse's salary is any more able to buy than a nurse is. Do we agree that a nurse has no special, i.e. greater entitlement to buy than anyone on a similar salary?

If so, why is it about nurses?

Because I used nursing to illustrate a point a few weeks back, and it's now become the defacto line for a few on here to illustrate all sorts of nonsense.

It's not about nurses. Please, do use another profession. It is about recent graduates, middle managers, basically anyone who is not earning in excess of £50k a year.

economic

ukcarper wrote: »

I think it would be better if she could afford a reasonable property in a reasonable area, but as things are she wouldn't be able to buy anywhere in London . That doesn't mean I think it that will happen anytime soon if ever or that there is a practical way of achieving it. But I don't think it's unreasonable to want people to have secure affordable accomadation.

i too want many things that are impossible right now. it doesnt mean people should be sympathetic towards me!!

westernpromise

So what's the proposal? That other people should be taxed to pay for houses to be built to be given away at a discount to people so they can then sell them? That's quite a bit different from flogging a council house to someone who's been renting it for n years.

Do the housebuilding capacity and the land exist in the UK to do that? Where should these gift houses be built?

One might as well rail against the wind blowing.

economic

Windofchange wrote: »

As per UkCarper, you just keep ignoring what is being said and repeating the same thing over and over. I don't know how many more times it can be explained to you that myself and others aren't advocating being able to buy some penthouse somewhere, but rather somewhere with just a bit more security than the studio you found.

Out of interest - the studio you found our nurse in West Croydon (Broad Green) from police stats:

"Violent crime blights the town centre, according to the data, though Broad Green also has high levels of violence. The Met says violent crime includes murder, wounding and grievous bodily harm, assault with injury, common assault, as well as possession of an offensive weapon and harassment."

You wanna spend £175,000 to live there in a room with a pulldown bed? Oh actually, sorry, if you are a recent graduate in most professions you can't even afford to do that. This is the issue. This is why the bubble will pop, it's just when.

cant even do that as a recent grad? are you serious? ok i was wrong all this time. how really stupid of me. how can this go on when a recent grad with NO SAVINGS is not able to afford a 175k property. how stupid of me to think all was well!!

hahahahaha

btw i was being sarcastic - this has got to be the most stupidist things you have said bagofwind.

ukcarper

economic wrote: »

i too want many things that are impossible right now. it doesnt mean people should be sympathetic towards me!!

Plenty of things I want can't have don't expect any sympathy. But if you were a hard working 40 year old living in a grotty flat share because that's all you can afford I would have sympathy for you.