Find out if houses are rented or owner occupied?

knightstyle · 16 November 2018 at 6:39PM

We will be moving soon, we hope, and have found a few streets we would like to live in but as renters have made our present road hell to live in is there a way to find out which houses are rented out in a street?

Slithery · 16 November 2018 at 6:42PM

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.

gettingtheresometime · 16 November 2018 at 6:43PM

And home owners couldn't make your life hell?

AlexMac · 16 November 2018 at 6:51PM

Cross tabulate online Land Registry Records with the voters' list in your local library... or #2

lookstraightahead · 16 November 2018 at 7:17PM

knightstyle wrote: »

We will be moving soon, we hope, and have found a few streets we would like to live in but as renters have made our present road hell to live in is there a way to find out which houses are rented out in a street?

Is that a sweeping generalisation .... or what?

Appalling. Whether people rent or buy is none of your business.

Rosemary7391 · 16 November 2018 at 7:21PM

Move to Scotland where LLs have to register?

I'd rather vet for decent neighbours though. And/or as much separation as possible - even the nicest neighbours grate when you live all squished in.

Disagree that it's none of their business who rents/owns though - in some cases (eg shared repairs) it's very important to know.

knightstyle · 16 November 2018 at 8:44PM

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.

Cakeguts · 16 November 2018 at 8:47PM

You get anti social behaviour in all tenures. There are some very expensive houses near where I live but that didn't stop the occupiers from letting off fireworks all night on Armistice Day.

For anti social behaviour all you need is someone with narcissistic personality disorder and you have a problem. This personality disorder is on the rise. It is often caused when parents never say "no" or they "want to give their children all the things they didn't have when growing up." It creates adults who feel that they are more special than anyone else and who are entitled to have exactly what they want when they want it. So a nice house in a nice area would be just the thing for these people.

You also can't find out who has a dog that barks all day by knocking on doors.

Cakeguts · 16 November 2018 at 8:54PM

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.

Not all renters are like this. Not all rented houses can be rented using the LHA. Many are too expensive for people to rent if they are not working.

The council in your local area is not looking after its residents. It is only looking after its anti social residents because it doesn't want to have to house them.

Look up the LHA at your local council and then buy a house that cannot be rented using that amount. So for example if the LHA is £500 pcm you need to buy something that would rent for £700pcm or £800pcm something that they can't make up the difference on.

Morbier · 16 November 2018 at 11:03PM

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.

lookstraightahead · 16 November 2018 at 11:26PM

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

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