Re: Buying a house (and renting)
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:58 pm
by Moggy
Hime wrote:Has he ever approached you about buying it before?
It's not a he, it's a company. The freeholder company owns the property management company (and the debt collection agency they once threatened me with!) and did once threaten forfeiture so maybe that was a half arsed way if trying to get it.
I know the freeholder company owns property but have zero idea if they'd have any interest in this place.
It's just an idea that might be mutually beneficial to everyone involved.
Re: Buying a house (and renting)
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 11:48 am
by Wrathy
Had a tweet go (accidentally!) viral a few weeks ago about landlords, which put my own situation into perspective a bit:
twitter.com/skdougherty/status/1281187345077764097
To be honest, seeing it all laid out like that and the costs and the extreme restrictions I've become accustomed to made the penny drop that this is
completely insane. I hate the furniture and the decoration of this place; I hate the noisy couple upstairs who have a baby which screams from dawn to dusk; I hate the fact all this money is going to someone else leaving me with nothing to show for it.
So with that in mind I decided I should probably start looking at places to buy. On my salary with deposit (down entirely to inheritance/luck, cos what are savings lmao) and working in Southampton with a mandatory office requirement, my choices are still a bit more limited than I'd like (I'm from the North, where houses are way cheaper for obvious reasons). After many hours of trawling through Rightmove I happened upon an excellent 2 bed flat, with new bathroom/kitchen and enormous rooms, which I viewed on Monday, then almost immediately put an offer in for which was accepted yesterday.
What I didn't
quite realise was how much work goes into the whole buying thing. Between solicitors, mortgage appointments, and surveyors I've had to get up to speed with what it actually means suuuuuuper fast.
But it's all very exciting!