The people who own the house next door to me are a decent young couple who once lived there and now let the house to a family who wanted to rent rather than buy. This seems to me a fair arrangement.
I feel that this is the difference, Mark: your former neighbours actually bought the house initially so they could live in it. They didn't buy it just to let it.
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I have to admit that one of my biggest fears is getting bad neighbours move in next door. Our present neighbours are fairly recent immigrant family from Turkey.
Although they are not 100 percent proficient in English and we don't speak any Turkish we do communicate enough to have become very good friends. I was even cheering on Galatasaray in the uefa cup while watching Turkish TV round their place:)
The problem would be if my previous neighbours who are the landlords, decided to sell the house. We then lose neighbours that we have become attached to because of someone else's decision. 🙁
Living in a buy-to-let can put you at the mercy of the landlord's whim to a certain extent.
buy to let .
what the diffent between a owner living in a propery , than a tenant rent a property from a land lord .:o
you could live next door to a family who rent the property and there could me idea tenants whiltes a owner of a property could be a nightmare to live next to .or vices verers ,:mad::mad:
ref buy to let landlords . as long as there look after the propery and treat the tenants with in the law ,:):rolleyes:
good luck to them earning more money than there would from the building society .:rolleyes:
live and let live , life to short , dont blink it pass us all by .:p
:p;):cool::rolleyes::o:)
The problem with high house prices is simply supply and demand. A man and a woman breed thus increasing the demand. The government could build another million houses and we'd easily fill them. Do we just keep building houses until there is no more greenery? Then have houseboats on every inch of our shoreline? We need a more radical approach if we are to solve the problem.
I reckon another carbon fat warming smoking congestion tax is in order. 😀
Or enforced homosexuality. 😀
Sometimes people have little option but to live in private rente property. The town I work in (Cumbernauld), had a big push from the local council for tenants to buy their properties. With the consequence that around 80 per cent of the properties in the Cumbernauld area are owner occupier.
Even when someone has a priority for housing, they can wait 18 months for an allocation of a home, and, during that time, if they take a private let, they go back to the bottom of the queue.
I am not an owner occupier, although I have been living in my flat for 11 years, I rent it from the local council.
Around 3 months ago, I came home to find out that every bit of cable in the landing had been ripped out, a CCTV camera pulled off the walls and smashed.
This was done by kids in the block, my local housing office did precisely nothing.
There are anti social tenants everywhere, in council flats, in private lets and also I believe, people who own their own homes. The fact is, people like this are a problem but the real problem is that measures that should be in place to protect people at risk of being bothered by anti social behaviour dont work.
My local anti social task force arent interested. My housing office evicted someone in my block who was causing the majority of the issues, 3 weeks later they had allowed her to return to their homes.
Personally, in circumstances where people need accommodation and have to go down the private let route, I would like to see that continue, for some people thats the only option they have.
What is needed is better controls on landlords, registration requirements that have to be adhered to.
I also agree that there should be more affordable council housing stock so that people dont need to get themselves up to their eyeballs in debt just so that they can get a roof over their heads.