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Aneirin -> RE: Dream Housing ? (8/5/2010 5:36:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: splorff
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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop
Splorff.. thats gorgeous.. I could totally love something like that.
My dream has been a huge, old house, with HUGE wrap around porches, loads of windows, and 2 or three floors (updated with a suitable number of bathrooms, natural gas appliances, and solar panels for heating water),. outbuildings (maybe a MIL cottage?), and barn.
Havent been working towards it because my credit rating is so far in the toilet that I only see THAt changing if I win the lottery or marry a reallllllllly wealthy man. LOL
I suppose I am lucky. I bought this little two bedroomed town house for £12.5K in 1985. Since then house prices have just kept rising. Now its worth approaching £150K.
In 1985 I wanted something big and rambling as you describe. I had my eye on a Victorian property not far away with three flights and many bedrooms, huge gardens and high ceilings. It was £27K. I could not raise that much. The last time it came up for sale it was £245K ! How sickening is that ? Still, I suppose I am happy, at least I made something from the property boom.
I’d love to get away to some isolated spot, and I am aiming to do it.
Yes, prices just keep on rising, that is why I and many others like me, can have no hope of every owning bricks and mortar in Britain. Take my place which I rent, it is a bedsit or a studio flat by it's posh name, it's market value is 40K, yet they are selling at 165k, why, because they are easy prey for those who wish to get into the buy to let scheme, most of the bedsits around here of the same design are buy to lets and with that comes a nouveau aristocracy, people who believe they are something to be admired because they own a place which they call property to rent to others. When they advertise these places they get into the game of discrimination by saying such things as; no pets, no dss, working professionals only for reasons I do understand, but at the same time as a place becomes unavailable to purchase as a home, the homeless list becomes longer.
Currently I am living on the edge of homelessness and that because I have had the audacity to annoy the owners club, the spetsnats as I call them, a club made up of owners only, where they may discuss their tenants actions and decide how to limit their freedom. They are under the belief that tenants have no rights as they rent property instead of own property, something I believe edges on illegality, but what do I do, challenge or let them carry on as they have always done, fucking up the lives of people who are through market forces unable to own ?
Terms such as ; No DSS, NO HB, should be outlawed, as it positively discriminates against people who would not normaly be discriminated by race, sex, religion or ability. Those that are unfortunate enough to have to claim benefits in order to live fall outside of the discrimination laws, yet they are the majority and whilst this stupidity continues, the list of homeless people gets longer.
To me, it was a bad, bad thing to allow the baby boomers to buy the council houses they rented, for I believe they have contributed to the present mess that alienates many people of all abilities.
DSS does not mean scum, yet those that are defined by an outdated title are treated as such by all.
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