Does anybody live in a semi-decent houseshare?
Since October I've lived here to save money due to having some debts to pay etc.
Finally getting into a better financial position now and working 2 jobs. I'm on a good wage now and could afford to rent my own place, but I would like to buy a place and don't want to keep flitting between places so I am a bit torn.
Anyway the house.. it's totally my fault for moving here, it was cheap, no deposit, flexible contract etc.
I viewed it virtually due to covid and also as I was abroad.
I pay £375 per month for a room including all bills.
For starters somebody has engraved something phallic into our front door and the landlord hasn't bothered to do anything about it.
We had a cleaner who wasn't exactly the most competent but she hasn't been since before Christmas. The agency have ignored the several messages I've sent to ask when and if she's returning.
There was a huge hole/leak in the ceiling when I moved in, which I was told would be getting fixed. It was finally done so last week, after 4 months here.
1 oven and limited cupboard space for 6 people. I have 1 shelf in the fridge but people still dump their stuff onto it.
Toilet is sometimes left pretty dirty. People also don't use air freshener so sometimes when you walk past the loos which you have to to get to the kitchen you get vile odours. Live with 5 men and one urinates without closing the door.
My room is right next to somebody else's so I previously had a couple having loud sex at 3am, now I have somebody who sounds like he's throwing things against the wall every time he opens his wardrobe etc.. I'm sure it's not him, just the walls are paper thin. The night he moved in I didn't know anybody had, heard a huge bang from the initially empty room from next door and thought something had collapsed in there.
The whole house just smells bad. The internet is dire despite me reporting it, when I moved in my drawers were broken and I couldn't actually close my window as a tree had grown over it. I had to cut away at the tree to be able to close it.
The street is filled with litter. I honestly think I've chosen the worst street in the town. All in all it's a depressing place to live and doesn't feel like home.
The landlord clearly doesn't want to spend a penny on the house and it shows.
I have a house deposit, a 15-20% one at that but atm my credit rating isn't high enough, though it's going up.
Not sure what to do, it could be 6 months or more before I can get a mortgage. Don't want to move again then move yet again.
Any advice welcomed.