Comments that homeowners make to renters

[malificent7]

Here are a few gwms:

Of course homeownwrs take more pride in there homes and tidy them more (my rented house was messy as i was depressed)

Oh you SHOULD get a mortagage... with what? Peanuts@

The landlord cant even be bothered to tart up your kitchen... the doors ate hanging off. ( One door is sliggtly hanging off after being repaired repeatedly.

Its a shame that all your money is going to the landlord.

Aibu to find such comments very irritating?

[Osirus]

I would be very, very concerned still renting a property going into retirement. Your future would be so uncertain.

I've never rented. Our mortgage is high but we have a lot of equity. It will also be paid off before retirement.

Interest only mortgages still exist. 100% mortgages don't.

[haveacupoftea]

Theres no better time to rent than when retiring IMO. You get housing benefit and wont have to sell your house to benefit the state when you end up in a home!

[lilyb84]

One thing that bugs me is actually people saying ow easy it is to rent because you have freedom to move when you want to. Almost as a conciliation prize for not owning.

Thing is, if you have no savings and are tied to an area by work/schools it's not that easy as renting somewhere new means coming up with a deposit and all those bloody fees, plus moving costs and probably cleaning costs if your landlord expects a professional clean at the end of your tenancy. As if renting wasn't expensive enough. And then there's all the uncertainty of not knowing if you'll manage to find somewhere suitable.

[SeparatedByMotorways]

lilyb4 I know what you mean entirely and I wasn't saying at all that I think of 'freedom to move etc' as a consolation prize. I do think though that (for me at least) there is a lot to be said for reframing snidey comments as positives in order to shut down the tedious conversations about the vital importance of buying.

[lilyb84]

Oh goodness separated my post wasn't aimed at you! Sorry! I agree it can be a great way to shut down negative comments. And for many people flexibility is an appealing aspect to renting so it's a valid thing to say as a renter.

I think it's just one of those things I've had sad to me a few times which assumes I rent out of choice, when I don't.

[creakyknees13]

Have you got a proper answer - such as why they didn't stay put and get a deposit together instead of going into rented?

Hmmm.... What a good question. Doesn't make you sound like an idiot at all. I went to university. They don't normally give huge mortgages to 18 year old undergraduate students, so I am afraid I had to rent a room in halls and then a shared house. Same during my postgrad studies- the bank still wouldn't lend me the cash on my £6k a year student loan and zero income. Funny that. I then got a graduate job paying about 22k in a city 200 miles from my mum's rural house in a part of the country where there are very limited graduate prospects. I needed somewhere to live and didn't fancy the 4 hour commute. So, y'know, I rented. Like people do.

[creakyknees13]

I would be very, very concerned still renting a property going into retirement. Your future would be so uncertain. I've never rented. Our mortgage is high but we have a lot of equity. It will also be paid off before retirement

To be fair, nothing is certain. You could end up selling to pay for old age care. Also, you seem to think it is a choice not to buy. It's normally not. Renters are probably 'concerned' too, but what precisely do you suggest that they do?

[ilovewelshrarebit123]

My now ex FIL came to my lovely house I had to rent after his cheating son left me.

They live 300 miles away and he took photos of each room (I didn't realise this) and showed his family and they said it was lovely.

He told me he'd said 'yes but it's not hers is it, it's only rented'! I felt so worthless and sad that he'd said this about the house I'd got and made nice for his granddaughter.

[Laquitar]

I keep reading here about the british 'obsession' to own a home. In which countries people do not want to own a house? It is a genuine question, i really don't know which countries you mean.

On the other hand i can think of countries where people have a very strong desire to own a home. So strong that they immigrate at the ageof 20 in order to buy or to build a house . Also many immigrate in their 50s in order to build a house for their dcs before their dcs get married.
Look at East Europeans for example.

I don't think it is healthy to attack each other, place your anger at thosewho sold the council houses.

Also there is a stigma towards flats in this country (unless they are luxury ones that cost millions) . Imo they must build more normal, average, affortable flats.