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?

Edit..Renting is dead money if it's Jones that's doing the renting.

In her 60's? And the rest!!

It's not always clear-cut that a tenant shouldn't spend money into a rented property.

I've spent £8k-£10k renovating a 2-bed rented flat in London, zone 2, including ripping out the 1990s kitchen and putting in a new one and replacing white goods, changing all the radiators, and putting down carpets on bare floorboards, etc.

I've been renting from the 'old school' landlord for 12 years, and in this flat for 7 years. He says he will never sell (because of capital gains tax) and he also has a lot of other assets.

The reason I spent all this money improving the property was to make it easier to get a lodger in the second bedroom. I was finding it difficult because the place was so tired, and all the other live-in-landlords I was competing with were owner-occupiers with much nicer places.

I now have a lodger again and it produces an income of £8.4k a year (or, anyway, a reduction in my costs, since I'm not having to pay the whole rent myself). The rent I am paying is also well below market rates - fortunately the landlord hasn't bumped the price up in response to my improving the property!

So, it makes sense for me, but perhaps this is a very rare case.

I think she looks good for her age and has invested in hi tech beauty treatments to help with this. I am not sure I believe her story about growing back her receding gum lines.

I feel some sympathy for her, but she lacks common sense - why would you spend such a large amount doing up someone else's house? Utter stupidity. If I'm not mistaken, she's either been bankrupt or on the verge before - so is unable to learn from her mistakes.

Only a fool spends so much on designer labels hoping to impress others and I fear she is too stupid or snobbish to learn.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/property/1243613-I-think-this-must-be-Liz-Joness-pad-up-for-sale

I can't believe people feel sorry for her. She's a fucking idiot.

She is definitely 64. Her DOB is Sep 1958 per HMRC Companies House, under her limited company Liz Jones Goddess Ltd (publicly available info).

I can’t believe so many of you all take what she says at face value!

She’s full of bullshit. It’s made up for clicks, nearly all of it.

I was going to say, I remember her writing about her age twenty odd years ago and it would track with being mid 60s now, so if she did start lying about it then it would have had to be a long time back. Obv she isn't. Presume the wikipedia is some wag on a wind up.

She’s always been dreadful managing money!! She must have burned through an absolute fortune

The woman is out and out bonkers,and, has a problem with the truth.
Shes been pleading poverty for years and then proceeds to tell us of all the outrageous stuff she’s bought and procedures she’s had to hold back aging.
Still, we all read it didn’t we 😊 And we still are.

Always thought she was autistic
Many signs - can't read thinfs in relationships, doesn't understand how she will be perceived, obsession with horses, anorexia, etc list goes on

Really means she is vulnerable and things 'aren't what they seen' ie she can't manage life the way a neurotypical woman can.

Be kind

The housing crisis is so bad even Daily Mail writers are starting to feel it.

So she could have easily bought it with the £59K she claims to have spent as a deposit.
I thought so too, or use the Money from the sale of her previous home.
It’s far too embellished, I’m having trouble believing any of it,

If you look at the other properties that are up for sale and all owned by the same landlord they all. the same perfectly serviceable cream kitchen, I have moved into rental properties with far worse kitchens than those, the woman is off her rocker.

I don't know if it is the curse of selling your soul to the DM but the other DM writer I knows also moves from one overpriced rental to another and from one relationship to another. He is also permanently broke but indulges in the finer things. He also massively overshares in his articles. It is a shame that she is a bit old for him. They would be perfect together.

Did she write the blurb on the house sales page?

Its common in Germany. I saw apartments with no kitchen and no bathroom. You have the right to live in the property for the rest of your life though.

That was so cringey! 😂

Really curious as to why people think she could be autistic. I think her writing is funny and just assumed it was made up and exaggerated.

In Germany yout buy the kitchen and take it with you when you move. Not so the bathroom, that's included as standard

There are many people in adverse housing situations I feel very sorry for. Liz Jones is not one of them.

This is the house that she used to own, with loads of land for keeping horses (I've been ther). Isn't it the one that was sold when she was made bankrupt? That would explain it being heavily reduced when sold. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/26975758#/?channel=RES_BUY

59k was our deposit on our 2 bed flat in London in 2019, excluding legal fees and stamp duty. I know you can easily spend that on renovations but it feels like a lot of money! And for a property you don't even own..