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

[QuebecBagnet]

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?

60k would just about buy you a 2 bed terrace outright near me.

@QuebecBagnet

Your living in a dream world if you think 59k would be 50% deposit on a 2 bedroom
terrace in most cities

She doesn’t want a two bed terrace because she has a ton of animals

Rarely has a woman so little little self-awareness and poor money management skills.

No idea who she is but spending almost 60k improving a house you don’t own is stupid.
Living beyond 60 takes planning and you start by 1.keeping every penny you have and 2. Making every penny work for you. Giving away £59 is madness.

"I'm looking for a tenant for my rundown shack. Liz, are you still looking for somewhere to live? 🤔"

But is any of what she says actually true?

only a fool would spend money renovating a property that wasn’t her own. Silly woman with no money sense.

I just don't know about this!

I was once a journalist (still do a bit) and I know that what appears in the press especially the DM sometimes falls short of the full story (putting it politely.)

Liz has made a lot of money writing about herself and this is another example.

What is truth and what is fiction is hard to define. Because it beggars belief she'd be so silly.

@uggmum Do you mean Richmond N Yorks, or Richmond Surrey?

Isn't there a pile in the Essex countryside coming her way soon via inheritance?

I don't know.

How timely

the DM encourages her to write goady articles like this for clickbait. I suspect some exaggeration here. Stupid behaviour but I feel sorry for her, having to earn money writing these articles

She'll fall on her feet. I very much doubt she's actually going to present as homeless to the council. It is frustrating when in rental long-term not to be able to change things,and putting up, say, for 6 years with an already dated kitchen. you can't style the house as you want, which makes it feel like it's never your home. On the continent, rents are often longer-term and in some countries you do have to install a kitchen when you move in! (e.g. Germany). Not here though and she was foolish. This is very unlikely to be the end of the story for her though.

She's profoundly unwell and deserves sympathy IMHO. The Daily Mail and others are exploiting this in a most dreadful way and the best thing to do is not to look.

This. There is obviously something going on here with her.

Who the fuck spends £200 on a rental never mind £59k
is she absolutely thick as fuck

Possibly, but she's also supposed to have six siblings that I would presume inheritance will be shared with.

The whole kitchen story sounds very suspicious indeed, on the veracity front.

Is it all true?

In her wiki it states she's 71?

Richmond, Yorkshire. Not Richmond, Surrey!

She is writing very successful clickbait for the Mail. 'Liz Jones: Why I got some financial advice and made some sensible decisions' will not get people frothing themselves into a frenzy, although it might be her controversial new direction for 2023, along with 'Jan Moir: Let's just give people a break, eh?' and 'Dan Wootton: Why I now think Prince Harry is a jolly good egg'.

Who the fuck spends £200 on a rental never mind £59k
is she absolutely thick as fuck

I wouldn't spend £59k obviously, but spending some money when it's your own home for that time, and have guests, and your children live in it- well, that's perfectly normal IMO. Some people live their whole lives in rental- should they live their entire life around magnolia walls and shitty carpets and never ever have the decor they like?

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 !

She did own her own house for 30+ years before being bankrupt so nothing like a lot of current 20 or 30 somethings who can only dream about buying somewhere.
She said everyone hates a high earning woman which made it seem like she was a victim of other people's behaviour, when in reality I imagine her situation is due to her making a lot of poor decisions. And listing all the expensive stuff she has had to sell or give away is a bit rich (pun intended) when she's trying to present herself as destitute!

She's always searching for something else, something better and living above her means. I'm not sure who she's trying to impress but she needs to work on her self esteem
She values herself by what she can buy
That's sad

I can't believe she paid that much for this tiny little kitchen www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/124488737#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media2&ref=photoCollage

She's a bit bonkers and I think has made some unwise financial decisions in her life.

But she's a regular (is she on the staff list?) DM reporter so that must fairly well, and if so (especially if she's staff) and especially (nice use of that word here!) as she's living in Yorkshire which is much cheaper to buy in than in London, then why on earth hasn't she got herself on the housing ladder before now?