UK highest for homelessness in developed world.

Skydancer

I think there should be a law that says if a house comes on the market and a first-time buyer offers the same as someone wanting to buy to let, then the first-time buyer should get it. My DD got her first home because the kind lady vendor wanted to sell it to someone who would live in it and appreciate it. The vendor had other offers from would-be landlords but turned them down. My DD could not believe her luck.

My Dd2’s was bought in the same circs. It was a probate sale, and the daughter of former owners didn’t want a landlord to have it.
She left a card for dd to say that her mum and dad had lived there for 60 years. Incidentally, it was an ex council, and after dh had a good old nose on the Land Reg, we found that they’d bought it in 1971 - well before Thatcher.

They paid £3100, almost exactly 1% of what dd paid about 8 years ago.

MissAdventure

I was just about to ask that, Diamond.

The council are certainly not the landlords they used to be, in terms of keeping our old properties in order.

Mines a HA, but they have been court ordered to sort out the mould and damp (not here, I haven't got any).

The only things guaranteed they do are electrics, gas boiler, the fire alarms and burglar alarms/video entry thing.

Oh, and they keep the communal garden beautifully.

The rest of it I end up paying someone to do it.

It’s a modern, small block, so it could be worse! 🙂

It council don't even keep up with those things, without a fight.
Still, it gives me something to do; I love to be a thorn in their side whenever possible.

MissAdventure

It council don't even keep up with those things, without a fight.
Still, it gives me something to do; I love to be a thorn in their side whenever possible.

Yeah, I think fighting with organisations, and quoting their own rules at them, keeps me young.😉

Thats the absolute best.
Quoting their own rules.
A woman after my own heart!