Council selling flats

-taff

I have my opnion, you have yours....Personally, I never felt secure in rented accomodation because it could be taken away at any moment, so they were merely places I lived until I bought.

My grandmother rented one house almost her enitre life from the age of about 35, she thought it was her home, but was almost on the streets again in her seventies because the landlord decided to sell.

Yes, you can call it a home, because you live there, and that's the dictionary definition of home, but again, personally, to have a home for me, includes knowing that it's mine and cant be taken from me at someone else's whim.

I see people I know who are renting treating the properties like they are their own, putting new flooring down, making repairs that a landlord should, or not rocking the boat about repairs because they know they can be evicted for no reason...

Technically, you're right, a home is where someone lives.

Red-Squirrel_2

-taff wrote: »

OK, I'll make it a bit clearer then

If you own a house, it's your home, you can do what you like in it within reason, no-one will eject you from it unless you want to be ejected, or you lose the means to pay the mortgage.

If you rent a house, you live there, you can do what you like within the bounds of the lease, but you can be ejected from it whenever the landlord likes as long as they are acting with the boundaries of the law.

So no, it's not a home. It's a place that can be taken away at someone else's will.

Nope, sorry, you're wrong.

By your logic, no children have a home either!

-taff

:snow_laugOk, you're right......

Somniac

-taff wrote: »

Yes, you can call it a home, because you live there, and that's the dictionary definition of home, but again, personally, to have a home for me, includes knowing that it's mine and cant be taken from me at someone else's whim.

You're not in the way of HS2 obviously.

I get what you say about security. My tenancy is a secure one from many years ago so may be more secure than modern ones. But for me the security issue makes it even more relevant to know what the council has in mind.

SnooksNJ

theartfullodger wrote: »

Remember that at the next elections.
Think the whole country has become more aggressive, websites, forums, social media certainly.

BrexSh*t & Trump.

Aggressive internet behavior like doxing and death threats have been going on well before Brexit and Trump.