To think that there are some advantages to renting?

[malificent7]

Obviously id live to own but cant so have chosen to look on the bright side of renting:

I can stay in a nice nieghbourhood and i dont have to move back to Toxteth (like i did as a student) thetefore dd can stay at her nice school and get a good dducation.

The landlord foots the bill for many reosirs... boiler breaks... hus problem!

Permanent jobs in my sector ( education) are like gold dust so if i loose my job i will get housing benefit. If i owned i would loose this and therefore loose my house.

There is more flexibilty regarding where i live.

Gah... i am scraping the barrel here!

Oh and i dont have to go without Costa Coffee for 250 years to help me save for a deposit!! Help me out here people with other ideas!

Ridiculous isn't it previously. My rent is over £150 more than my next door neighbours mortgage yet I'm seen as the lesser. I find it really depressing!

I don't mention that mine is ha, I just let people assume what they want, our rent is more than some mortgage's in other areas, if we had to rent privately we would struggle in this area.
The downside is that you get double snobbery about 'renting from the council' I think a lot of people think they are only for people on full benefits..

You can instantly get rid of salesmen for things like double glazing, driveways etc. "Oh I'm not sorry, we rent grin"

I tell them that yet I own

I had a safe style uk salesman knock the door once who actually didn't believe me when I told him we rent. Apparently no one rents around here except for the fact that the house directly across from us is a rental and I've also noticed a few to let signs up and down our road since moving here nearly 2 years ago.

I just closed the door on him in the end.

I spent the first 28 years if my life in various rental places.
Not having to do repairs is a big benefit.

Flexibility is also a benefit if you can afford it. Upfront costs of renting tend to be very expensive, even up here in Yorkshire so for the JAMs of the world renting is probably not more flexible than buying would be. I know, for example, that last year my sister was desperate to move because she was spending a lot of time commuting but it took her over 6 months to save enough money to move. Might not be forever but it's not quite the up and leave some like to think it is.

I can't stand people that look down their nose at renters. It's inevitably always people that used to rent themselves and now seem to think it's below them. Snobs.

Dsis is of the but we OWN our hoouuse brigade lol, I admired their house when they moved in, brought a present etc, even commiserated when she found out next door were letting to ye gods housing benefit claimants lol. I let the remarks go over my head!
I love my house! I've poured time, energy and money into my home, I plan to raise my children here and am quite happy paying rent for my assured tenancy. Should we ever be able to buy it sure I will, so I can repair it properly, not to make a profit from it as its my home.