Find out if houses are rented or owner occupied?

theartfullodger

lookstraightahead wrote: »

Op from what you've said I think you need to live in the country,

Indeed.

But not this country.

p00hsticks

knightstyle wrote: »

Just to say it is VERY important for us to know!
When we bought, in 2006, our current house, a new build on a small estate everyone was owner occupier and the atmosphere great, children played at the end of the road, get togethers for BBQs etc common.
Gradually people moved away, houses here are difficult to sell so many became reluctant landlords to their cost.
Currently of the houses closest to us we have three owner occupiers and eight are tenants. Of the eight one is long term and a decent working family. The rest are nothing but trouble, from noise till early hours night after night to bonfires in the road and children who are excluded from school doing damage on a daily basis. Several seem to be related and we know they have been evicted several times by landlords but the council then pay their next deposit and guarantee to repair damage they cause when they are evicted next time! Before anyone says this is not so we are still in touch with a couple of owners who told us all this.
So that is why we do not want to live with renters for neighbours, sorry if it offends you, one of my best friends now rents following a divorce, but we just want some peace and quiet in our lives.

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So it sounds to me as if the people really to blame are those home owners who rather than sell their properties at a realistic price prefer to just get any old tenant in as long as they pay the mortgage and the neighbourhood can go hang !

Murphybear

Slithery wrote: »

Knock on all of the doors and ask the occupiers hoping they tell you the truth?

Even then there is no way to stop the status quo changing the day after you move in unless we're talking about a large area of leasehold properties with a clause prohibiting letting (and even then the freehold situation could still be altered at any point).

Although believing that home owners are always less trouble than renters is a false assumption in the first place.

I lived in a terraced house with my partner and cat, all retired. Next door to us were a family with 4 children who didn't know the meaning of quiet. Most other residents in the street hated them. We complained about their noise once and you could hear the neighbours f-ing and blinding and threats of physical abuse half way down the street. So we moved

We rented, they owned their own house. How people behave is nothing to do with whether they rent or own. We now live in an over 60s complex where everyone rents. It's heavenly, everyone is quiet and friendly.

Murphybear

Morbier wrote: »

Yet again, those of us who are renters are classed as the lowest form of life. OP you say "sorry if this offends you" - well, actually, it does.

I'm more than fed up of this persistent, and unfair, generalisation that anyone who pays rent is somehow of a lower moral and social standard than someone who pays a mortgage. I've owned three houses in the past but now I rent - have I had a personality change as well? I think not.

I'll stop now, I'm getting annoyed and would like this post to be published.

Don't worry, lots of people would agree with you. You can't classify people that way.

csgohan4

tenants and Owners can equally be difficult neighbours, just pot luck what you get

lookstraightahead

When you say "children played at the end of the road" and you thought that was great, I'm wondering how those owners/renters felt who lived at the end of the road ...

Make a list of all that is important, forget who rents and who owns because that doesn't make a 'type', and choose from there. For example, my kids are grown up so I would not want to live where lots of kids play at the end of the road lol. But 15 years ago I might.

I hate traffic (the noise really gets to me) but I don't blame the people with massive cars they don't need .... or do I.

need_an_answer

whats your budget for the move OP?


You may need to rethink things and move to isolation in the countryside if you don't want to have the potential of someone renting the properties near you.

I've just bought a new property as a LL and I had 3 near neighbours knock on the door on the day of completion not to introduce themselves in a friendly manner but to inquire if I intended to rent and if so could they have my number as they were likely to have problems with the tenants....this was before even I knew the tenant I would be choosing!!


Speaks volumes really that there are clearly a band of people who are unwilling to get to know people and prefer to judge....

Davesnave

If you're smart enough, you'll soon work out what the situation is in any place where you're considering a purchase. It just takes a little home research and putting in the hours of personal observation / chatting to people. Of course, it helps if you know what to look for and how to engage folk in conversation.

This won't tell you who owns or rents, but it will probably indicate any problems with the overt behaviour of residents, which what you are really after.

Crude pigeonholing of people, which is what you are trying to do, is much easier and very unreliable. However, if it's all you are capable of, then good luck with it.

buglawton

The real question is, can you choose to live at an address without anti social neighbours in close proximity.

Places can be deceptive. I once owned a detached house between 2 other owner occupied ones in a sleepy quiet locality. Feral children one side, massive concrete dog kennel with noisy dogs abutting my garden the other.

Now I own in a Council built street of semis with about 50% council tenants 50% owners. Neighbourhood is acceptable at the moment.

lookstraightahead

need_an_answer wrote: »

whats your budget for the move OP?


You may need to rethink things and move to isolation in the countryside if you don't want to have the potential of someone renting the properties near you.

I've just bought a new property as a LL and I had 3 near neighbours knock on the door on the day of completion not to introduce themselves in a friendly manner but to inquire if I intended to rent and if so could they have my number as they were likely to have problems with the tenants....this was before even I knew the tenant I would be choosing!!


Speaks volumes really that there are clearly a band of people who are unwilling to get to know people and prefer to judge....

I don't get people sometimes. I rented a lovely house once but my owner neighbour one side was a drunk and the other, very well to do side argued continually day and night, with a son who had a very noisy sports car - also owners.

I do think people come up with all kinds of scenarios as to why people rent, trying to fill in the gaps in other people's lives with their over reactive and under productive imaginations