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Fair comments, the managed decline of the private landlord is not something I would like to be in charge of!.
My initial post was a reaction to all landlords essentially being a pox on society.
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Very few people actually want to rent
long term, probably not.
but short / medium term; yes lots of people want to rent. it isn't practical or desirable for everyone to be home owners all the time.
a supply of decent, secure, affordable rental properties is a good thing. the argument is about who should provide it and how.
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Very few people actually want to rent, and this is borne out by many many surveys.
It's a bit chicken and egg though isn't it?
I still have loads of things on my house tdl so the idea of having a LL right now to take care of it is quite appealing. However, that would also mean spending* 50-100% p/m on accommodation, with no more than a year's security at a time.
*as opposed to having part of it being paid into an asset
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I had 6, and all were pleasant enough people, but 3 of them evicted us with one month notice because they were 'selling up'. In all honesty, I think that's what they thought at the time, but only one month later, the places were up on rightmove for rent at a higher price. Meanwhile we had to shell out an extra few hundred quid each time, plus moving costs and all the stress that goes with it.
That's great, but at some point you have to ask whether this is a good way to structure society, not just relying on stories of one-off situations where lucky individuals got a deal. It probably wouldn't be difficult to do a carve out for these specific scenarios anyway.
Very few people actually want to rent, and this is borne out by many many surveys.
Of course it isn't, and a best-case scenario is that this situation will take decades to fix. The slack can be taken up by many more people than just councils too, and even then, their funding models are changing to allow investment in social housing.