Negotiating rent

Nix · 8 Apr 2009 at 19:26

HangTime said:
Last time I checked Winchester wasn't in London
It's generally regarded as a fairly expensive place to live however and certainly last time I looked (admittedly a year or two back) rents of £1k+ weren't that uncommon.

My mistake. For some reason I had it in my head that he lived in GL. I was miles off!

eXor · 8 Apr 2009 at 19:30

IIRC, you posted photos of your Winchester pad. It was stunning.

TTIUWP

neil3k · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:03

Winchester isn't expensive if you know where to look.

PaulyJay · 8 Apr 2009 at 20:29

Scuzi said:
How is the rental market at the minute? Is there much room for negotiation? What sort of offer should I put in to start the bargaining and is there a certain way I should go about it?

Thanks

I'm no longer living in Winchester but if it's anything like Docklands you'll be laughing. The last two places I've looked at were asking £1200 a month and were happy to accept £1000, I'd didn't take mind as I figured I'd just pay the extra and get something even nicer!

The way I do my bargaining is to start lower than I what I'm after and work up from there. Usually the letting agency has an idea what the owner will accept too...

DB_SamX · 8 Apr 2009 at 21:18

neil3k said:
Winchester isn't expensive if you know where to look.

If you look at student places, they are dirt cheap and can be literally "dirt".

Scuzi, what's the location/class of the area you'll be moving to. Your existing one appears to be very hard to fault in that sense.

Scuzi · 8 Apr 2009 at 21:39

eXor said:
IIRC, you posted photos of your Winchester pad. It was stunning.
TTIUWP

Yeah it is nice and it's in what I suppose you could call a "prestigious" area but it's far too small for the price I'm paying and most of my neighbours are stuck up ****ers who think I'm a drug dealer.

DB_SamX said:
Scuzi, what's the location/class of the area you'll be moving to. Your existing one appears to be very hard to fault in that sense.

Location is a few miles outside town but still close enough that nights out and the sort won't be a problem. The location of my current place is awesome but what good is a location when your neighbours suck and it's costing a premium of about £3k a year. Besides, moving out of town will force me to cut down on drinking. The local is so handy that I spend about 4-5 nights a week in there