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Wealthy people who buy up houses to let and their treacherous minions the letting agents that bleed their tenants dry make me sick. Such a despicable example of pure greed and what is the government doing about it? As usual, absolutely nothing! "There you go, of course you can buy as many houses as you like, and don’t forget to rent them out for as much as you can get so your tenants can cover you’re mortgage."
I really hate way the housing market works these days. It's very polarised, designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer! There is a real shortage of 'affordable housing' in this country now that the property market has gone nuts and house prices have gone through the roof. The only real option for some of us is to rent, and unless you’re a single teenage mother or an asylum seeker, renting a council house is pretty much out of the question. So what else do you do? You rent a house privately of course and that leaves you at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords and their letting agents.
It really grates on me that there is no such thing as fair and reasonable rent. Landlords are always hiking up the price to get as much money as they can, squeezing tenants for every last penny. It’s just ridiculous, particularly here in the South East where we live together like sardines. Some private landlords that rent the house themselves are okay. I have had good experiences as well as bad. So many of them however, are just out to get you to pay their mortgages on their second home. If these people hadn’t bought up all the houses there might be a few left that the rest of us could afford!
When it comes to renting a house, another thing I hate is inspection day. The letting agency that I rent through at the moment, insist on inspecting the property every six months even though I’ve been there for nearly two and a half years and have always looked after the property! I have nothing to hide and I am clean and tidy etc., but I just don’t like the thought of these people wandering in when I’m at work (they don’t do inspections at weekend) and nosing around. It feels almost… degrading.
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I agree with everything, bar one.Peo9pe talk a lot, but do bugger all.We are at tge beck and call of a dodgy megalomaniac, buying up decent lettings agents, and then harassing their tenants.
Unless people rise up, and refuse to take it any more, these greedy grasping bastards, will continue to own more and more, and continue to rip people off.People who rent are often better educated than tge bourgeois scum bag treating them like dirt.
Chuck a brick through your letting agents windows,trip him or her up in tge Street.Register them on Tinder as,"sexy estate agent needs cock."But for God's sales don't sit down and take it.
Bloody well do something.Then these parasites will be history.
I then saw, and realised, what it was to be on the other side of the ladder. I have two daughters, one 23, one 19. They have no chance at the moment of getting on the ladder, and yet we live in a mortgage-free house worth almost £600,000.
It stinks. If anyone wants to "buy-to-let" they should be limited to 3 houses maximum, but I know some who have dozens. Greed isn't the word for them. Evil is. They screw the vulnerable and get whatever they can. It stinks in my view.
Let's hope something happens, because I happen to want my two daughters to be able to afford to get on the ladder.
Unless I and my wife snuff it, they won't be able to.
What a state of affairs.
Don't vote David in - he's done nothing for people who needs houses !
But will local after his rich Chinese mates !
There are many circumstances where we all need rental properties at one time or another.
Pity the government doesn't see fit to build modestly prices houses so that most of the parasites cease having tenants buying them second homes.
Bald Old Coot
Keep Britain Tidy.Fuck up a landlord today