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Frustrated with tenants?

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thankunextex · 25/03/2019 10:13

I’m trying to view a house and the tenants have refused to let me view it both times. Appointments been booked in advance and then they say it’s not a good time an hour before.

I get it if you don’t want to actually leave the property (not sure if that’s the situation or not) but I’m just being messed around now.

OP posts:
Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 06:10

ILoveMaxiBondi - it’s lovely in my houses too

RidiculousFoodBills · 26/03/2019 08:33

I've seen houses and 2 bed flats for sale for 40-50k in certain parts of Liverpool 🤷‍♀️ Not the most glamorous parts, but some are in areas with plans for regeneration.

I think it's tad unfair to say that "Investment is what you do with money you have, not money you need to borrow." in this situation. Obviously Liverpool invested her money. She had money for deposit and I presume repairs and decoration. She invested it and topped it up with a mortgage. That's still an investment.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 09:24

it’s lovely in my houses too

Ahem, the bank’s houses...

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 09:25

Oh I did see a programme where the councils were selling off houses in Liverpool for buttons. I suppose if that’s available to you it would seem very easy.

RidiculousFoodBills · 26/03/2019 09:33

@ILoveMaxiBondi it was in Stoke too. £1 houses. The process to select who gets them was rigorous. Thousands of applications and only about 20 houses. These were in dire condition. You were simply left with just bearing walls in some cases so applicants had to prove they had funds to do the works. Coulcil also offered loans.
Great project, but went bit sour due to safety, or lack of safety, in the area.

The 40-50k ones I mentioned are private sales. Not council.

bigKiteFlying · 26/03/2019 09:42

It's incredibly common to have EAs just barge in

As a tenant I experienced that even after saying no - after a lot of bad behaviour from EA.

As a buyer - buying from a considerable distance away - and making that clear to EA we had this a lot last minute cancelations to see houses from people supposedly wanting to sell – then getting upset we couldn’t reschedule – we’d sold our and we under time constraints and with school applications as well.

In fact, we all travelled down one weekend with appointments in both days – got to see only two of the properties out of 6 bookings.

Our favourite house the estate agent turned up without the keys – we got lucky the home owner had seen us as she was leaving and came back to ask us why we hadn’t gone in – and then let us in and was happy for us to look around ourselves. We ended up buying that one but if we hadn’t seen it we’d have had to cross it off.

Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 09:51

ILoveMaxiBondi - well you say that but there’s light at the end of both our tunnels, only yours appears to be a train ... maybe less bitching and moaning g and a bit more reading and you could sort your life out.

Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 09:53

RidiculousFoodBills - I can assure mine were not £40,000 I’ve like everyone else read about these unicorns but the reality is you wouldn’t buy them or live in them nor would you want the kind of tenant who’d entertain living there. I’d rather buy in Syria less dangerous

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 10:00

Grin sounds like you’ve a bit of work to do on your own life Liverpool.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/03/2019 10:17

Can't say I blame the tenants. Unless the place is being sold as an investment, with tenants in situ, their right to 'quiet enjoyment' does not include random people traipsing around their home.

IMO landlords should wait until tenants have left before selling, and I say that as a LL myself.

I have heard of the odd LL offering a significantly reduced rent for allowing viewings, which is fine - as long as the tenants are happy with it.

ArraysStartAtZero · 26/03/2019 10:28

FFS if someone can't afford to buy a house reading isn't going to suddenly make money appear out of nowhere. Don't be so fucking patronising.

Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 10:35

ArraysStartAtZero - nobody walked up to me and handed me the keys. These threads always tickle me ...

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 10:37

These threads always tickle me

Oh, we can tell.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 10:38

Out of interest, which book did you read that provided the money to buy your house?

Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 10:43

ILoveMaxiBondi - I think you’re lost case tbh. All the information is out there

ArraysStartAtZero · 26/03/2019 10:47

Yeah, you seem the type to me amused at other people's struggles.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 11:11

But you’re the expert? Why don’t you want to help me? You can direct me to your resources but choose not to and then sneer when I struggle to improve myself. Were you born like that or do you have to work at it?

Inliverpool1 · 26/03/2019 11:18

3/4 posts ago I probably would have helped, but it’s a bit late making snidey comments then asking for me to assist you. You’ve got google the same as the rest of us it’s all out there

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 11:42

Yeah, sure you would. And don’t worry, I wasn’t asking you for help. I’m not that naive as to think you would.

thedisorganisedmum · 26/03/2019 11:48

I wouldn't waste my time, any suggestions or real life example will be made with criticisms and a million of reasons why it's not the same, it's not possible for everybody bladibla.
It's easier to complain than to make some steps.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 11:55

You genuinely believe it is possible for everyone to buy a house? Seriously?

thedisorganisedmum · 26/03/2019 12:16

I genuinely believe it's possible for the majority of people to chose to go on the property ladder and start at the bottom, of course I do. It's simple maths.

I don't believe it's possible for everyone to buy a detached house in the most expensive part of town! Most of us had to start small and compromise. I also believe that if you only start thinking about buying when you already have several kids, you might have left it maybe not too late, but at a very inconvenient time, but it's not impossible.

IncrediblySadToo · 26/03/2019 12:22

No, which is why I didn’t take out a mortgage on a house I wasn’t living in. common sense really

Are you really that dense that you are unable to see past going out to buy a house you don’t intend to live in?

Yes, there’s pretty much always ‘a’ choice. Refuse the 2 year contract you’ve been offered at the other end of the country, refuse to go and live near an ill relative, return overseas for a couple of years to help elderly parents, sell at a loss, sell & be unable to rebuy when you want to move back to the area...but the other options are even worse so you become what’s known as an ‘accidental’ landlord, is simply less of a mouthful than a ‘not-what-I-set-our-to-do-but-the-least-worst-option’ landlord.

JessicaWakefieldSVH · 26/03/2019 12:59

It really is not possible for everyone who wants to, to buy a home. To say otherwise, is to ignore the overwhelming evidence.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-45776289

ILoveMaxiBondi · 26/03/2019 13:00

Are you really that dense that you are unable to see past going out to buy a house you don’t intend to live in?

If I couldn’t afford to pay for it myself? Of course. Pretty dense to take out a mortgage that you are relying on other people to pay.