{"id":68250,"date":"2014-07-08T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/renting-a-home-what-every-tenant-should-know\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:04:26","slug":"renting-a-home-what-every-tenant-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/renting-a-home-what-every-tenant-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Renting a home: what every tenant should know"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDuring my seven years of blogging as Rentergirl \u2013 and decades renting \u2013 I have experienced the joys and woes of the UK’s broken private rental sector \u2013 from soggy sofas to sudden eviction. Here’s what I’ve learned\u2026\u2022 How Fergus and Judith Wilson built a \u00a3100m rental property empireI’ve been a tenant my entire adult life, which is hardly unusual. After all, there are currently nine million renters in the UK. We all rent property at some point in our lives: as students; when saving to buy (which, for many, is rapidly transforming from stopgap to permanent); while on holiday; and, finally, when we are elderly, in sheltered housing.For seven years I’ve written a blog about this vast, fascinating subject. I began Rentergirl as a lodger, after a landlady who regularly drank three bottles of wine per evening, and who roundly admonished me for using the lounge, gave me one hour’s notice to “get out of her house”. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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