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Letting fees rule the roost - Rental Raters Blog
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Letting fees rule the roost. Gavin Haynes has delusions of becoming a columnist or journalist. Working 9-5 to make a living, he amuses himself by writing Shouting From The Cheap Seats, a blog in which he rants and reviews whatever takes his fancy. He lives in north London with his wife, renting whilst praying for a collapse in the housing market. Much of the talk about rentals focuses on either bad flatmates or bad landlords, but very little is mentioned about the humble letting agent. So you like it?
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The frightening truth about flat-hunting - Rental Raters Blog
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The frightening truth about flat-hunting. Daisy Buchanan is an author, journalist and broadcaster who writes about sex, feminism and reality telly. She's a columnist for The Debrief, The Telegraph and The Mirror amongst others, and lives in a rented flat in Greenwich with her boyfriend, where she enjoys being within walking distance of some of London's loveliest pubs. So there’s a fridge AND a freezer? How long have you had it? Well, it came with the. I bet you can keep all sorts of things in there!
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Moving Back In With Your Parents - Ten Home Truths - Rental Raters Blog
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Moving Back In With Your Parents – Ten Home Truths. Eleanor Margolis is a New Statesman columnist and a freelance journalist. She has quite a lot to say about being a lesbian and a London-dwelling member of Generation Rent. 1 How to make a proper cup of tea. 2 The joys of a full fridge. 3 The simple beauty of the Antiques Roadshow. Live with your parents, and you’ll quickly learn to love their TV programmes. And all the more so if they happen to involve Fiona Bruce admiring elaborate chamber pots....
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5 things to do while you’re waiting for your landlord to do repairs - Rental Raters Blog
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5 things to do while you’re waiting for your landlord to do repairs. Lucy Sweet writes for many internet and real life publications, like the Big Issue, Bitterwallet, Lifetime, Bluffers, the Mirror and Glamour. She's also the author of two novels and a cartoon anthology about her squalid youth. She lives with her husband and son in Glasgow, perilously close to a pub and a kebab shop. I’ll pass that on to [insert name of absent superior here] then goes back to picking her nose with a biro. Put a little ci...
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No Mod Cons - Rental Raters Blog
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Helen Walmsley-Johnson, writing as The Invisible Woman, is a freelance writer and author of the popular online fashion column The Vintage Years, which she writes for the Guardian. She also writes on matters concerning older women and has spoken out against ageism on Woman's Hour and BBC radio. A lover of culture and good things she has reviewed for the Square Meal Guide and magazine. Helen is working on her first book. Of the windows in wintertime.
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Paint Free Home Makeovers - Rental Raters Blog
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Paint Free Home Makeovers. Daisy Buchanan is an author, journalist and broadcaster who writes about sex, feminism and reality telly. She's a columnist for The Debrief, The Telegraph and The Mirror amongst others, and lives in a rented flat in Greenwich with her boyfriend, where she enjoys being within walking distance of some of London's loveliest pubs. Is there a way of lighting the gas ignition which doesn’t require a flare gun? Do they have actual glass panes, or are they just gaps?
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I am a lifelong renter. I missed the baby boomer property bonanza entirely by dint of a messy divorce in 1990, which stranded me with three young daughters and hardly any income. My lowest housing ebbs. Once, while flat hunting, an estate agent showed me a terrible, terrible place in Finsbury Park. Far from being in a viewable state. The frightening truth about flat-hunting. So there’s a fridge AND a freezer? Um, yeah. , But that’s BRILLIANT! How long have you had it? Remember that old adage? It was only...
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The 5 types of landlord - Rental Raters Blog
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The 5 types of landlord. Lucy Sweet writes for many internet and real life publications, like the Big Issue, Bitterwallet, Lifetime, Bluffers, the Mirror and Glamour. She's also the author of two novels and a cartoon anthology about her squalid youth. She lives with her husband and son in Glasgow, perilously close to a pub and a kebab shop. 1 The absent landlord. Is he (or she) a unicorn? Why do they have an address in the Seychelles? 2 The not-so-absent landlord. 3 The nice but useless landlord. Aw, tha...
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Other organisations in the housing debate
http://www.pricedout.org.uk/links
How did this happen? Petition: End rising house prices. PricedOut in the news. Links to other organisations. The housing and homelessness charity. The voice of housing associations - and Yes To Homes. Their campaign for building the homes we need. Royal Town Planning Institute. Homes from Empty Homes. The Chartered Institute of Housing. A great source of house price and interest rate data. Land Value Tax campaign. Campaign for a better private rented sector. What was your last home like?
