To think people treat you differently because you rent

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I rent- i’d rather own a house but circumstances/costs have prevented it so far. I have a professional career, earn a good salary, my kids are well rounded, we are normal people.
But people are SO snotty about it- there’s an underlying ‘you aren’t as good as us/ you aren’t a full member of society’ attitude that I find really weird. Maybe I am more sensitive but I have had people treat me with pity over it- like there is something wrong with me. ‘Poor you, paying dead miney’ Etc. That I have failed in the ladder of life. I don’t have family money to help out & I am priced out. It’s as simple as that.
Aibu? Does anyone else get this?

It's not just the deposit though is it...you have to have enough monthly income and a steady income to afford the monthly repayments.
Contrary to what people are saying, it was far more expensive to pay off a mortgage per month than my monthly rdnt was.

I do feel that the motgage advisors were looking down on me when i investogated a morthage.

I still rent but im about to inherit so will buy asap.

HelenaDove
not sure what that has to do with being a tenant - you could leave your agency dealing with the workmen, when a home owner has to deal with everything himself.
That's exactly one of the reasons why I did love the freedom of being a tenant - not my problem, agent has the keys, they dealt with all that.

twitter.com/barrymarlow/status/1086178890467422208

Im talking about HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS not bloody agencies and private rentals And ours and others stipulate that the TENANT has to be in.

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sorry, I always had to pay the market rate, I never had the luxury of access to reduced rents and all the trimmings. You can't have it both ways!

HA rents ARE close to market rent in some places.

Are you saying tenants feeling safe in their own homes is a luxury

@gamerchick Here we go again.

Nope! I didnt feel treated differently when I rented. I used to work for a letting company and saw many wealthy couples who moved around just to accommodate their childrens education. They were renting, not buying a house each time they moved. (and just think this is completely the norm in some developed countries - Switzerland - hardly anyone owns, they rent and it goes down the generations)

Enjoy what you have today and if you put your heart into your own property one day, I wish you find the one that you can fall in love with!

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/housing-association-fined-1m-over-death-of-5-year-old-girl-59772

stv.tv/news/west-central/1434431-man-mowed-down-after-shouting-your-houses-are-rubbish/

I don't think it is just renting a property that is looked down on but more anything that involves paying things on as monthly basis like leasing a car etc.

I rented for a long time and could only afford to get deposit because my Dad gave it to me. The actual mortgage we paid on first house was less than we paid in rent. I do not think i am treated differently now we are buying home. I think if you live in London/South East with house high and salaries not keeping pace getting deposit would be very hard with no parental support. If i lived in south i would seriously consider moving to Midlands or even North to get on ladder. I lived in South before uni but went to uni in Midlands and stayed.

I'm in the midlands, pretty rural. A lot of the kids growing up in the villages can't afford to buy to stay close to their roots. They're having to leave or rent off private landlords who often have three or four houses in each village.

There is a massive amount of building going on, lauded as 'affordable housing'. However these are mostly estates full of 3 and 4 bedroom houses going up for hundreds of thousands which are way out of the reach of first time buyers and sell to folk who work in the cities and commute for miles, OR being bought by land lords. You see the TO LET signs going up along whole rows of new properties a couple of months after the For Sale signs are down. Especially the smaller properties. 'Affordable' housing is a joke up here.