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Buy or Rent?
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Try approaching someone like the National Trust or Crown Estates. Our experience of renting is fairly limited, but we have been renting from this type of landlord for the last 7 months and have found things to be fine. There are a number of standard clauses in the lease agreement, but in practice they are quite flexible and cause no problems. We just pay our rent every month (£900 as opposed to £2500+ if we were buying it with a 100% mortgage) and have neither seen nor heard from the landlord or agents in the time we have been there. It's just like owning the house without having to worry about the cost of maintaining it!. The money invested from our house sale pays the rent so you get a much better lifestyle.
That said there have been loads of horror stories on here about poor landlords so it's worth doing some research first. Most of the properties around us are also rented so we asked around a bit and found everyone had a similar experience with our landlord.0
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