Now that’s just ridiculous. I wouldn’t want a landlord that uptight. They can keep their property.
Renting with animals - why is it almost impossible?
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Now that’s just ridiculous. I wouldn’t want a landlord that uptight. They can keep their property.
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Just like changing baby nappies.
My son is 3. His nappies still smell.
I’m lead to believe landlords are poor and the government is out to get them and make renting non viable which is why so many are selling their properties.
I had someone move in behind my house during locked down.
unfortunately my office is at the back of the house, as he built a kennel to home his 4 dogs... I used to hear the dogs barking all the time and he would come out to beat them. Yes, I called the RSCA twice; but with it being locked down they didn't want to do anything about it.
a few months later after he moved out and dismantled is noah's ark of a dog kennel, I spoke to a foreman of the landlord.
It turned out that the person was their sparkie, who did a few jobs for them.. and as it was lock down with no one renting they offer him the place on the cheap.
He did ask if he could keep "a" dog there and they agreed, not knowing that one dog meant 4, and he was breeding them.
The relationship turned Thump-Elon when the sparkie started failing to turn up for work, so as the foreman he went to visit him at home to see if he was ok. Saw the state of the house, the massive kennel and the poor pups. So he called the landlord and the landlord forced him out by putting the rental price so high, they knew he wouldn't pay it.
unfortunately my office is at the back of the house, as he built a kennel to home his 4 dogs... I used to hear the dogs barking all the time and he would come out to beat them. Yes, I called the RSCA twice; but with it being locked down they didn't want to do anything about it.
a few months later after he moved out and dismantled is noah's ark of a dog kennel, I spoke to a foreman of the landlord.
It turned out that the person was their sparkie, who did a few jobs for them.. and as it was lock down with no one renting they offer him the place on the cheap.
He did ask if he could keep "a" dog there and they agreed, not knowing that one dog meant 4, and he was breeding them.
The relationship turned Thump-Elon when the sparkie started failing to turn up for work, so as the foreman he went to visit him at home to see if he was ok. Saw the state of the house, the massive kennel and the poor pups. So he called the landlord and the landlord forced him out by putting the rental price so high, they knew he wouldn't pay it.
That won’t work once the new renters reform bill is passed into law.
then you must have done a hell of a job with the cleaning, even nuted cats make your place smell like cats.
Maybe your good with the litter tray though... some other mine not poop scoop so often, then the cats look desperately at the litter tray , rather pee somewhere clean etc..
my mum used to have cats and and I love them, but its hilarious when you see them crouched over the side of a litter tray with their butt or only 2 legs in trying to take a pee because even they thnik the litter tray should be cleaned more often.
I used to do it sometimes, horrible job
Didn't use a litter tray, they were allowed outside.
And on the 6 months visit we would just take them to my parents for a few hours and then bring them back
What you've highlighted here is the exact net-negative that landlording gives to society.
The rights of a huge swathe of the population, the renting class, has their personal freedoms limited, in ways the home owner class are not, on the arbitrary whims of property holders.
And against this societal 'bad', what is the 'good' of landlording to society? There is literally none.
Nope. Absolutely nope. They are rancid things. Cannot stand having to open the bin once there are some in there.
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I agree - it’s an awful system and I believe everyone should be able to afford their own property on a normal wage without having to overpay someone else’s mortgage. Anyone who doesn’t want to be tied in for any reason should be able to rent a standard type of house at set rates through the government which they can vacate at, say, one month’s notice.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the world we live in and these houses belong to other people who can set rules (to an extent) as to who can live in them and how.
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Good question - call it 25 - 30 grand off the top of my head. I think a single person should be able to buy a property on that, ideally without needing a huge deposit.
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That’s the problem - the market is screwed to such an extent that ownership is out of reach for many. I don’t want it to be free, just attainable for all.
It's a simple risk Vs reward calculation, the chance of someone with pets messing up the house is higher than without pets, and someone with pets is clearly not willing to pay more to the point where the landlord thinks it's worth it.
If I was a landlord I wouldn't even consider anyone with pets as dealing with just people is bad enough without having the complications of people and pets too.
If I was a landlord I wouldn't even consider anyone with pets as dealing with just people is bad enough without having the complications of people and pets too.
You can, it's not easy and it takes a long time to save up but you can. The main problem is the cheap houses are where nobody wants to live and people want more house than they can afford in locations they can't afford.
On the minimum wagie you can buy a £100k house with a 10% deposit. You only need to save £8k in a LISA to get £10k then the £90k mortgage would be under 4x your salary. You could save £134 over 5 years to get that amount or half over 10 years. There are £100k houses up norf is bad areas, some are even cheaper, but of course, nobody wants to live there. Once you're on a £30k+ or the median average for an area, maybe £120-140k house is possible in a similar time frame and at that price range you can start to get a bad house in a decentish area, or a decent house in a not so great area.