Buy-to-leave

Captain_Mainwaring_2

Is there anything else I am going to get told I cannot do?

I want to smoke a cigarette in an empty house owned by me - let's make that a hanging offense.

There will be plenty of cheap new builds coming up soon, let's force them to be rented cheap to people who will smash them up.

Kavanne

We had potential squatters looking in our windows only 2 days after the vendors had moved out! Our neighbour (luckily a very imposing man) chased them off and let me know immediately. Visited fabricland hastily for net curtains!

I think these 'buy to leave' people will have major problems with squatters. Lucky squatters!

Kez100

Captain_Mainwaring wrote: »

I haven't agreed that buy to leave is a bad idea.

What do you mean, services that aren't used?, if we are to believe what we are told then the police are a very thin blue line, ambulance is in a pickle, and the fireservice is in a right state.

Can you prove that an empty property properly secured is any more likely to get robbed for nothing or burned?

They may be in a right state but they are still costing a fortune and someone has to pay.

Yes, it can be proved. Why is insurance more for an unoccupied property? Therein is your answer.

SquatNow

The simple introduction of land taxation would solve the housing problem permenantly.

PasturesNew

There's quite a lot of buy to leave, there's a lot of that in Cornwall. Some bought intentionally, and some bought as 2nd/holiday homes but they never bother going ever. Ever!

But how can you tell somebody's done this?

PasturesNew

I don't know how true this is, but you're getting a link anyway. It has been suggested it's all b0ll0x, but I've never researched its authenticity.

http://www.rentfreecornwall.blogspot.com/

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't know how true this is, but you're getting a link anyway. It has been suggested it's all b0ll0x, but I've never researched its authenticity.

http://www.rentfreecornwall.blogspot.com/

OMG :eek: . If true, what then?

Gorgeous_George

Captain_Mainwaring wrote: »

Is there anything else I am going to get told I cannot do?

I want to smoke a cigarette in an empty house owned by me - let's make that a hanging offense.

You cannot smoke a cigarette in an empty house.

Nothing to do with the Government and Council Tax. More to do with the laws of physics.



GG

Captain_Mainwaring_2

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

You cannot smoke a cigareete in an empty house.

Nothing to do with the Government and Council Tax. More to do with the laws of physics.



GG

Since we are being pedantic I doubt you could smoke a "cigareete" anywhere.:D

poppysarah

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's quite a lot of buy to leave, there's a lot of that in Cornwall. Some bought intentionally, and some bought as 2nd/holiday homes but they never bother going ever. Ever!

Primary schools are shut in many rural areas packed with 2nd homes and holiday homes. If they all had families living in them fulltime there'd be enough children to keep the local schools open.

Empty homes also push up prices which often means essential workers can't afford to live in the area. Which is why quite a lot of UK holiday areas are staffed by foreign workers who are happy to live in a shed for the summer.

Bur services decline when there are fewer people using them.