Liz Jones - I do feel a tiny bit sorry for her but she still has no self awareness

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Article in the DM today about how she's getting evicted from her rental cottage as the landlady wants to sell. Focus of the article is renters with no security - which I agree is an issue.

So she talks about how when she was made bankrupt she struggled to find somewhere to rent. Had to put all her nice furniture in storage. She has spent 59k "decorating" this cottage - new kitchen, underfloor heating, etc and has now lost all that.

I'm sorry but 59k would be a 50% on a 2 bed terrace in many cities in the UK. I don't know maybe she couldn't get a mortgage for the rest. Though surely she didn't spend all her savings on this cottage. And how did she have 59k if she was made bankrupt a few years ago?

Anyway the thing which really bugged me is she says women of her age have had it harder than "generation rent". Really? Had it harder when she had the opportunity to buy property (and did so) when it was a quarter of the price it is now. She spent years writing about her luxury lifestyle, her horses, trips to Paris, expensive skincare, expensive yoga classes.

I have limited sympathy for someone who has spunked a very good income on frivolous shit and moans about being skint especially when they continue to make shit financial decisions.

Still wish I knew who the Rock Star was. Was Jim Kerr the most likely suspect?

You are so not being unreasonable.

I had sympathy with getting notice for no fault of her own, just landlord economics.

But she's paid £60k to improve her landlords asset, not her own. That's on her.

The article says that she cashed in her pension to raise the 59k.

What a stupid woman.

She’s appalling. I have no sympathy for her on any level.

Dreadful woman. Car crash life

So she now has no home, no pension and no regular income. And is on her own in her 60s. She could be in a lot of trouble.

What?! To spend on someone else’s property! What a stupid thing to do.

I feel sorry for her sometimes. She has spoken in the past about her eating disorder but I think she has some type of financial disorder too. She really has no clue financially. The way she speaks about people and acts I think she might be autistic too.
She needs some real help.

And she needs to rent a place to accommodate three collies, one of them incontinent, and umpteen horses cats etc. Her irritating side-kick on the podcast (which I do enjoy) will probably scarper. I do find her likeable and interesting but mad as a box of frogs.

Ridiculous. Why would you spend all that money on a rental property?!?!

She put a Neptune kitchen into someone else house. She’s only got herself to blame.

I think Jim Kerr ticked most of the boxes. Poor man.

I haven't read her stuff for a while but I expect she wrote about the new kitchen etc.
Why did no one say to her "Liz...you really shouldn't do this. You don't own this property. It's not yours".

I feel a bit sorry for her too. I don’t read much of her stuff unless it’s on the main page but I do spend every article thinking “but WHY would you do that? WHY?”

on the other hand, she works and supports herself and looks after animals well and has no problem shining a big picture light on her own stupidity and I have some appreciation for that.

Well in a rental market like ours, where private rented relies on lots of individuals with one or a few properties to rent, you need to allow landlords to sell or the market would collapse. And as there is almost no social rented market left, many people would be screwed.

The sorry state of the housing market is a direct result of active decisions by successive governments.

If she approaches the council they will need to find her somewhere, particularly at her age. I know she's nutty, but it's a bit sad that she's homeless. Paying for that kitchen was a very bad step. I hope her animals are able to be re homed.

She’s probably the most irritating and irresponsible female I’ve ever read about. Her ex had a lucky escape.

Wasn't this the woman who stole sperm out of a condom? Apologies if I'm confusing her with someone else but if this was her, then she needs professional help.
Spending 59k on someone else's house was always going to end badly. I don't believe that in all her career, she wasn't able to save enough to buy a small home or get any kind of mortgage

She also says she is renting a small cottage in Richmond at £1700 pm. This is way above the average rent for this area.

There are lots of 2 bed cottages to rent in that area for less than £800 pm.

She also stated that she rented a flat in London for £3000 pm at the same time.

So £4700 pm just on rent. She's always lived well beyond her means.

No i cant say i feel sorry for her.. if she can afford to spend 59k to redecorate someone elses property plus pay 3k rent (London flat), then shes clearly very bad at managing her money.. i've never had that type of income available, but i do own my home..

She’s a liar and a twister of facts.

Had she been a first time renter and not understood that she could be asked to leave with short notice then I would feel more sympathy but she’d been moving between rental properties for a few years. The naming of all the expensive items she had owned really irked.

A rental is not yours though and you shouldn't spend money on it ..

Anyone that does is a fool!

She could have bought a normal house ( not idyllic cottage ) and lived there many years ago for a pittance so she is nothing like generation rent !

I'm neither but have a paid for 3/4 M house because I got on the ladder early and benefited greatly from jumps in equity .. none of which my daughters generation can do !

I read that article with disgust.

Yeah it's shit she's been evicted. But every single sentence was loaded with how much she spent on this sofa, this Miele washing machine, that expensive piece of furniture that she gave away, £3000 bed. Moaning about how poor people have to buy dfs sofas.

In 4 yeas she spent £60k doing up someone else's home. Plus £1700 a month rent.

That's over £140k before she's paid a single bill. In 4 years.

If she has had that sort of income she's a million miles away from the thousands and thousands of working families who are really facing the true difficulties of the fragility of renting - jobs, kids in schools that mean they have to try and stay local. 'I had no choice but to rent a ramshackle old cottage in Yorkshire with no heating' - fuck off, your choice to keep a menagerie of animals removed your options but yet you still managed to find somewhere because you can still magic up ££££ to support yourself. And stupidly spunked your pension and every other penny doing it up for someone else to benefit.

One wonders what similarly stupid financial decisions led to her bankruptcy...

Idiot woman.

In Richmond, Surrey? You're kidding. There's hardly anything at less than £1200 for a two bedroom flat, let alone a two bedroom house. If you're in central Richmond, as opposed to Twickenham, Whitton, Hounslow etc you're looking at £2000 plus.