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right to buy, should i?

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  • sparky130a
    sparky130a Posts: 660 Forumite
    tonk1e wrote: »
    Anyone telling me what's social housing vulture I am go go jump of a tall building in not interested in your opinion on the morality of selling social housing stock you haven't had to put up with chavs and unemployed drug smoking.losers tour whole life

    I can see from your posts you are far more socially superior.

    Oh hang on.....
  • Bahtiyor
    Bahtiyor Posts: 11 Forumite
    Nope, it's not true. 5 year rule only applies if you want to sell your house, rent has to be sorted with your mortgage
  • ReadingTim
    ReadingTim Posts: 4,084 Forumite
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    tonk1e wrote: »
    Anyone telling me what's social housing vulture I am go go jump of a tall building in not interested in your opinion on the morality of selling social housing stock you haven't had to put up with chavs and unemployed drug smoking.losers tour whole life

    With this sort of aggressive attitude, coupled with an obviously poor grasp of spelling, punctuation and grammar, I think you're perfectly suited to "chav land" yourself.
  • BLOW_FLY
    BLOW_FLY Posts: 115 Forumite
    tonk1e wrote: »
    Anyone telling me what's social housing vulture I am go go jump of a tall building in not interested in your opinion on the morality of selling social housing stock you haven't had to put up with chavs and unemployed drug smoking.losers tour whole life

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    That's made my day that, crying with laughter, no seriously I am, I can hardly type....

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    BF
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    You're not doing anything illegal, OP so ignore the jealous naysayers.

    You don't say where you are in the country but depending on how easy you think it will be to persuade your wife to live there for five years, I'd go for it. You won't get another chance to make such easy money again.
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • noh
    noh Posts: 5,817 Forumite
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    Pixie5740 wrote: »
    If the property is in chavland who will want to rent it from you in the future?

    Chavs?.......
  • lovinituk
    lovinituk Posts: 5,711 Forumite
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    pimento wrote: »
    You're not doing anything illegal, OP so ignore the jealous naysayers.

    You don't say where you are in the country but depending on how easy you think it will be to persuade your wife to live there for five years, I'd go for it. You won't get another chance to make such easy money again.
    Nobody is jealous. I just don't see why I or anyone else would want to help someone who shows such a p1ss poor attitude on their second post. The "be nice to newbies" initiative doesn't give newbies the right to be obnoxious right from the off.
  • maisie_cat
    maisie_cat Posts: 2,136 Forumite
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    What you are considering is legal, if you can pay with cash I believe you can rent out, there is always a demand for cheap housing regardless of area. My mum bought her council house as retirement planning, she lived there 20 years as a tenant and 15 as an owner, then sold it and moved to the country. If you can rent straight away, do so, move into "nicer" private rented of buy with a mortgage and a view to selling the BTL and clearing the mortgage in 5 years. Do remember to include the costs of compliance with landlord and self employed legislation
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    lovinituk wrote: »
    Nobody is jealous. I just don't see why I or anyone else would want to help someone who shows such a p1ss poor attitude on their second post. The "be nice to newbies" initiative doesn't give newbies the right to be obnoxious right from the off.

    I expect the OP's second post was because he has read some of the other 'right to buy' threads on here and watched the posters (new and otherwise) be ripped apart by the people who seem not to like the fact that they think it's getting something for nothing.

    His delivery may leave something to be desired but he's got the measure of the attitude of a lot of the posters here on the subject.
    "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair
  • Isn't it great that there was a council house available to you to give you some security and a stable, affordable home while you were only earning £15k?

    Let somebody else have that now please, move on and get on with annoying the neighbours on some sterile curtain twitching new build estate. Put a caravan on the drive, they hate that.
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