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Do you feel sorry for people in Council Houses?
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Having always been a homeowner since I left my parents home I always tend to feel a bit sorry for council house people. Mainly because most of them will never ever have any real money so to speak.
Oh ok, they might amass a couple of thousand savings but they will never ever have a big pot of money that an owned house with plenty of equity in it could give them , like £200,000 or something in that region.
Is it because most of them get rent free or is it because most of them know no better and its the way their parents always lived?
Oh ok, they might amass a couple of thousand savings but they will never ever have a big pot of money that an owned house with plenty of equity in it could give them , like £200,000 or something in that region.
Is it because most of them get rent free or is it because most of them know no better and its the way their parents always lived?
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Dont feel sorry for me, I have a lovely 4 bed house in the countryside, with all mod cons and free repairs on tap, a new kitchen due to be fitted in a year or two, and no worries of ever having it repossessed
Your baiting thread will be an epic fail
not like these matchbox new ones. with no character.
Money doesn't count for everything.
And oddly I thought the point of life was to live not amass thousands in the bank but perhaps that is why I am generally a happy person.
I may not own my own property but, unlike a home owner, I also don't have to shell out for building repairs, sewer unblocking/repair etc.
And no, I don't feel sorry for people in council housing. There's nothing wrong with living in a council house - for many people they are the only way they'd be able to have a decent roof over their heads and I wouldn't deny anyone that.
There are of course unpleasant people who happen to live in council housing, but the same can be said for people who live in privately owned housing too.
Then there's your house being worth less than the mortgage, Negative Equity.:rolleyes:
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Too late. I think you took the bait hook, line and sinker.
Owning a home does not make you a better person or enrich your life.
In some ways i envy them, the rent is low meaning more money for them!
No, I sussed straight away that it was a baiting thread. The OP probably wanted people to come on here all riled and explode at him, well it did not work did it? everyone has been pleasant and responded in a decent manner.
Baiters arent what they used to be, thats for sure.
It's a lovely house in a lovely area. Sure I pay rent, but I don't have to fork out for repairs and it's a long term assured tenancy. I'm not sure anyone needs to feel sorry for me, but thanks anyway...a little bit of pity never goes amiss!
I have a mortgage, but I can certainly see the benefits of renting, for example my OH is self employed if he is unlucky enough to have no work we have no comeback and risk losing the house, if we cant pay the mortgage.
A house should be a home and it doesn't matter to me whether a person owns it or rents it.
I find your post patronising.
oopps have i just given them what they wanted lol.
Oh, I quite agree.
But then, we bought our house outright-so I feel rather sorry for people with a mortgage.
No, you were nice and polite( unlike the OP) and got your point across well
Possibly. I just thought he may have been baiting people to describe the type of luxurious council house they've got and how pleased they are with it, when there are tens of thousands of people who aren't entitled to council housing un-able to afford anything close to it. Glad you didn't fall for it.
Ahh thank you...I must have had my polite head on this morning lol.
Renting is the new buying
That would be the only way i'd buy, If i had the money to do so outright.