{"id":138515,"date":"2023-07-27T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/twenty-renters-fighting-over-each-flat-in-britain-i-worry-ill-never-find-a-place-to-call-home-anonymous\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T22:56:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:56:49","slug":"twenty-renters-fighting-over-each-flat-in-britain-i-worry-ill-never-find-a-place-to-call-home-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/twenty-renters-fighting-over-each-flat-in-britain-i-worry-ill-never-find-a-place-to-call-home-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty renters fighting over each flat in Britain? I worry I\u2019ll never find a place to call home | Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSoaring rents, intrusive questions, baffling rules: landlords and agents behave as they please because tenants are 10 a pennyEarlier this year I found myself served notice on my flat after complaining to my landlord that he shouldn\u2019t swear at us, his tenants. That is the standard I have grown to expect in the private rented sector, where ego runs roughshod over legal rights. With no way of challenging the notice, I needed to arrange some viewings \u2013 and fast.I found a friend who was willing to share. With the average one-bed flat in the area where I live costing more than \u00a31,000 a month in rent alone, that\u2019s a good friend to have. Every letting agent I phoned asked a whole ream of invasive screening questions: what was the nature of our relationship? Did we have pets? Did we smoke? Did we work from home? How many cars did I have? What was my annual income? Did I have a permanent contract? How much did I have in savings? I had to provide all this before I could learn the address. It\u2019s clear from the get-go that agents call the shots, and applicants suffer whatever indignities they must.The writer is in his 30s and lives in the south of England Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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