To think that if a house is advertised as a family home

[gallifrey]

then you would be allowed to live in it with a family!

Wrom we are in the process of moving about 100 miles away from where we live now. We have been looking on rightmove and thought we had found the perfect house for us. 3 bedroom, lovely garden and opposite a play area and in the catchment area for the best school in the area.

DH phoned the agent yesterday and was told that because he works and I am a SAHM we wouldn't even be allowed to view the house at all because the landlady was looking for a professional couple with no children.

We are beyond pissed off and really want to complain to someone about this discrimination

YABU to think young professionals shouldn't rent 3-bed houses. DH and I who are increasingly aged professionals recently rented a 3-bed house. We wanted a spare bedroom and a home office, and we could pay the rent. We were excellent tenants.

It also had a garden, which we used, and it happened to be in an excellent catchment area for local schools

However, YABU equally to even consider renting from such a monumental fruitcake - at inspecting your current house - what an entitled, er, person! Seriously, consider yourself lucky. She is totally the type who would 'pop round' without notice and expect to repaint the whole place after a 5-year stint.

Perhaps its a blessing in disguise? It wouldn't be a perfect house if she kept popping round to check up on you every 5 minutes.

Can't believe she wanted to see your current house! What next, insist your car is valeted every month? Inspect your knicker drawer for signs of acid fanny! see thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a1771137-Very-sorry-but-I-want-to-talk-about-bleachy-gusset-stains-embarrassed-face

She sounds like a Hyacinth Bucket

Agreed with the other posters who say you had a lucky escape from a nightmare LL!

"she said she didn't want children in the house and that also she wanted both parents to be working!"

well she's contradicting herself a bit there if she's saying no kids but then goes on to say both PARENTS should be working! where does she expect your children to live?

well she's contradicting herself a bit there if she's saying no kids but then goes on to say both PARENTS should be working! where does she expect your children to live?

Maybe she's expecting them to be working up a chimney somewhere?

LL is a raving loon. It's a shame about the house, but I'd say you had a lucky escape.

i agree- very lucky escape.

i would be fine with my current house being inspected by prosepective LL- however i would expect in return to be able to speak to their previous tenants and also access to their mortgage account to ensure they were paying the mortgage and that i wouldn't be suddenly evicted because they hadn't been passing on the rent. access like she expects should be a two way street.

Lucky escape- she is doubtless a fruitcake in all aspects of land-ownership!

I bet she's whinging somewhere on t'internet about how long it's taking to rent it out though.

I saw on rightmove a 3 bedroom terraced house with garden. No pets. No housing benefit. No students. No children. No shared accommodation. Soo.....who would the LL take?

We had a nightmare founding a house to rent when we head ds1 as we were uni students, loads of landlords didn't want students and then those that would accept students wouldnt let us rent because we had a child...

When we had ds1 not head...

Loads of that round here. Plenty of 3,4 and 5 bed houses. 'No children' and let's just put it this way, there are zero students over the age of 16 here - no college, no uni except far away.

She wants kids in all day daycare or school.

the land lord is delusional if she thinks a career obsessed professional couple would want to rent a housr opposite a kids play park.

The lady sounds a little crazy, but if you want the house then play the game. All she wants to know is that her property is going to be looked after and she's going to be paid on time.

Actually I disagree. It's perfectly normal for landlords to do this. Annoying maybe, but If it was your house would you honestly prefer a family to a young professional couple?

It's not about being 'bonkers', it's about assessing risk. Clearly mumsnet is probably not the best place to air this view.

You're kidding - you've heard of LL inspecting your current home and banning children from a 'family home'?

That is bonkers, sorry.

'Annoying maybe, but If it was your house would you honestly prefer a family to a young professional couple?'

And you're likely to get a young professional couple who want a house across from a school where? Especially if it's 'no pets', too.

Hey, it's the LL's property, leave her to it. But it's rather silly, IMO, if you need the money from rent.

Our friends rent a massive 5 bed farm house. Village location, near a school. There are couples out there who looking to rent 'family houses' (but without the family). You don't have to have 4 kids to want lots of space.

If its a desirable location and she isn't struggling for tenants she can be fussy. Supply and demand and all that ;)

And how old are they?

Sure, she can, but she can also discover most people think she's bonkers!

Are you the LL in question then?

Most people with children will think she is bonkers.

I don't have kids.

Friends are in late 20s early 30s.

I worked for a letting agency many years ago.

We had one quite elderly Jewish landlord who refused to have German tenants.

The agents probably deliberately mis-market in.these circumstances to.hook you in - another namer on their mailing list and the possibility of renting something else.