Buying a home 1982 vs 2016

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Adapt or die!!

Perhaps you could extend your munificence to allowing PG to pitch a tipi on the sloping lawns of your Edwardian pile in Totnes.

It wouldn't exactly be out of place

[barrydidit]

Renting sucks, landlords kicking you out, landlords putting up rent, landlords withholding deposits because you put a piece of blutac on the wall, landlords wanting to inspect the property every two months, landlords not wanting you to have pets, or smoke or have children.

Landlords are scum. Profit hungry scum.

If I had taken a picture of the tulip infested, crap strewn slum that my tenants had turned my rental into after having a dog for 2 months you might might be less judgemental. I had to have a shower to get the stench out of my nostrils.

FWIW I have never once put up rent, kicked anyone out or withheld a deposit, my only expectation is to find a civilised human being who doesn't think it acceptable to live with dog tulip all over the floor whist eating noodles from Tupperware because the sink looks the the one in withnails flat.

Oh, and the only reason I was intruding? To do the gas safety certificate. ******* good job I did too since the spackers had lined the bottom of a gas oven with plastic to catch fat drips.

You seem to have a very binary view of the world which, for someone pushing 40, is quite disturbing.

[barrydidit]

I'm a BTL landlord, because it's my pension, and I prefer to have a decent tenant in long term rather than make as much money as I can. My current tenant has been in for 3 years and I haven't raised the rent for 2, because he takes care of the place. And most other landlords i know are the same.
TBH you come across as a spoilt, entitled, not too bright mediocrity who doesn't know how lucky you are. If you were my tenant I would in fact raise the rent just to get rid of you.

Hth, bidi.

This.

[PurpleGorilla]

If I had taken a picture of the tulip infested, crap strewn slum that my tenants had turned my rental into after having a dog for 2 months you might might be less judgemental. I had to have a shower to get the stench out of my nostrils.

FWIW I have never once put up rent, kicked anyone out or withheld a deposit, my only expectation is to find a civilised human being who doesn't think it acceptable to live with dog tulip all over the floor whist eating noodles from Tupperware because the sink looks the the one in withnails flat.

Oh, and the only reason I was intruding? To do the gas safety certificate. ******* good job I did too since the spackers had lined the bottom of a gas oven with plastic to catch fat drips.

You seem to have a very binary view of the world which, for someone pushing 40, is quite disturbing.

Have you made money out of it?

[BrilloPad]

Mr Caton applauds initiatives aimed to help younger home owners.

These have included Help to Buy mortgage schemes as well as ways of helping aspirant buyers save for deposits. The Help to Buy Isa was unveiled in 2015 and in this month’s Budget, another, more generous, vehicle – the Lifetime Isa – was announced.

So the solution is to provide ways for people to get themselves into more debt?

I do like the way that most on CUK equate any sort of empathy, anything other than f00k everyone else, with being stupid and poor. And being less of a person.

I suppose I realized this long ago via threads like http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...ight-back.html

Its the same sort of attitudes that lets ISIS flourish and encourages the bombing of children Pakistan explosion leaves many dead at Lahore park - BBC News

Nice.....

[BrilloPad]

So what's your advice for Generation Y?

Kill anyone who owns a BTL.

HTH

[PurpleGorilla]

Exactly BP. Feed the bottom of the Ponzi scheme and STFU.

[shaunbhoy]

Perhaps you could extend your munificence to allowing PG to pitch a tipi on the sloping lawns of your Edwardian pile in Totnes.

Not a chance. The listings people would not allow such an affront to the "setting" of my home.

[sasguru]

Kill anyone who owns a BTL.

HTH

Sad bitter loser, but Ho hum. Not the first and won't be the last, what? The politics of envy is alive and well.

[sasguru]

Have you made money out of it?

That's the aim in the long run. What do you want, a Soviet/Cuban/Venezualan/North Korean system? Because obviously those societies really succeeded.