Olympic gyppos get luxury bungalows in London

[[TW]Fox]

They haven't had to raise a deposit or mortgage have they?

Neither has anyone else living in rental accomodation?

 

[Greebo]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2244712.ece

. How exactly are travellers going to be able to afford £800 a month incidentally?

Most Gypsies I know are quite well off. When they have been playing poker in the village pub once I walked in and there was about £20k in the pot in the middle.

My other half when she was a practicing ve used to treat gypsy horses and they always paid cash from a big roll of notes from their pocket.

The old genuine horse drawn caravans exchange hands for up to £250,000 cash and even the new big silver ones that you see a lot of them have cost £0k to £40k and obviously no mortgage.

And those knackered looking coloured horses that you see chained to the side of the road can be worth a fortune too if they are fast with them changing hands for hundreds of thousands of pounds. This is because of their earning potential at road races at the likes of Appleby fair where individual bets of £10,000 on the outcome of the race is not uncommon. A half decent horse can be worth £50,000.

I am not saying that all gypsies are loaded but there are certainly a lot of them who are far more financially wealthy than me or you so £800 per month is nothing really.

 

[scorza]

That's why I said possibly. They had already lost the court case and that is the life they have chosen to lead so they should expect some inconvenience. If they wanted a move to bricks an mortar they could have joined the waiting list like a lot of other people.

Precisely, yet because they have chosen to opt out of normal society they somehow jump the queue - and get to live in conditions that are a helluva lot nicer than most Londoners, at least until they move in.

And certain people continue to bury their heads in the sand about tax payers getting the shaft...

 

[Greebo]

This fails the so what test. Look beneath the sensationalist rubbish. Dream homes? Huge dream homes? Get a grip, its a crappy bungalow. And they are being charged 800 quid a month in total. Seems entirely reasonable, most gyppos dont pay a penny.

£350,000 is a lot of money for a bungalow. You can build a three bedroom half decent one for under £150,000 so £350,000 ought to be very luxurious IMO.

 

[Hatter The Mad]

They are tiny houses in the middle of an ugly party of London. I don't envy them.

lol @ you for reading The Sun.

 

[Streeteh]

Not exactly luxury tbh

 

[platypus]

Neither has anyone else living in rental accomodation?

Funny, I've never been able to rent somewhere without paying agency fees and a deposit, other then a private property, which this isn't.

 

[scorza]

£350,000 is a lot of money for a bungalow. You can build a three bedroom half decent one for under £150,000 so £350,000 ought to be very luxurious IMO.

If you can get planning permission for one, which these days you generally can't. Hence the price of nice, non-council house bungalows has been sky-rocketing in the last few years (over and above normal house price increases).

 

[Hatter The Mad]

Funny, I've never been able to rent somewhere without paying agency fees and a deposit, other then a private property, which this isn't.

But when is the deposit any more than a month's rent?

 

[platypus]

In any case of any agency, any where. Well of the two I've dealt with .

Usually month + half, then month upfront.

 

[4T5]

I'm in, Where do i sign up for one of these Bungalamows then

 

[Strife212]

Yawn. Same argument used everytime, "us law abiding tax payers getting shafted!!", blah blah.

You seem to argue against anything. Anything decent or good anyway

 

[platypus]

I'm in, Where do i sign up for one of these Bungalamows then

I think all you need to do is set up a tent or caravan on a piece of council land.

 

[loopylou]

Funny, I've never been able to rent somewhere without paying agency fees and a deposit, other then a private property, which this isn't.

If you are renting a council house you wouldn't have to pay deposit or fees. I am assuming that's why they won't be paying any.

 

[Von Smallhausen]

I'm in, Where do i sign up for one of these Bungalamows then

Will y' be takin' the dag with y' malc ?

 

[Chimerical]

You seem to argue against anything. Anything decent or good anyway

Probably because its the same people creating the threads each time spouting the same nonsense.

Just because I happen to disagree with the original posts in a few threads doesn't mean I am not entitled to my own opinion.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

But when is the deposit any more than a month's rent?

Pretty much all the time.

 

[cheets64]

Do they pay tax, I know they dont pay Road tax or insurance.

 

[Amp34]

Erm they aren't particularly big? They look like 2 bedroom bungalows to me. I can only assume most of the "cost" has come from buying the land in the first place, if it's not part of a bigger development.

 

[4T5]

Do they pay tax, I know they dont pay Road tax or insurance.

Absolutely Slanderous accusation old man +


Some have missed the point Entirely, Here have a rolleyes just for the sheer hell of it +

You want them Accountable & paying Tax, Insurance, Rent, Rates, Council tax etc etc etc like the rest of you but you don't want them living in houses, Have another rolleyes as I am feeling generous

Amp makes a wise point as I am sure builders could knock those little rabbit hutches up for 30k, Either some Private company is rincing the crap out of that council or the land had to be purchased first or maybe there are some road works that need sorting that has bumped that cost up as those hutches look crap to me. Also paying 98 quid to keep a caravan on your drive for ***** sake what a Rip.

Next thing they'll be moaning about me Dags