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Inherited Macartney&Stone retirement flat - anyone rented one out?

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damemaggiescurledupperlip · 03/02/2026 13:01

We inherited a one-bed retirement flat from DH's parents over a year ago. It has been listed for sale since then, but no real interest.

An alternative would be to rent it out. Has anyone done this in a Macartney and Stone development?

(I don't want to be a landlord, but the ground rent, service charges and double council tax do stack up. We have lowered the price twice, but nothing in the block is selling.)

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Zov · 21/05/2026 22:05

@Seymour5 I think some McCarthy & Stone are still for rent, otherwise it will be private let I would have thought.

Or I did find these few if they are of any help... They all do renting for people who are retired/of retirement age.

https://www.housing21.org.uk/properties/

https://www.anchor.org.uk/properties-to-rent

https://www.retirementvillages.co.uk/retirement-properties-to-rent/

Zov · 21/05/2026 22:08

Economicsday · 15/02/2026 11:06

@Zov, its a common theme.

My friend had similar with her bachelor uncle, she was harrassed on the phone by a rude as fxxk person in the hospital about him going home with her.

She is soft, but I persuaded her to block the number of the hospital and I wrote an absolute stinker email to the hospital on her behalf, copied lots of people in the hospital randomly, Patient advocacy services etc.,and told them that she would be contacting the media about their abuse of a relative visiting regularly and the presumptuous assumption that they could tell her that she had no choice but to take her Uncle in to her private home.
The cheek of her!

It was a furious, vicious email, quoting and obviously naming the total bitch in bed management that thought she could speak to her like that.

She received an unequivocally apologetic response by email and the assurance that the staff member involved would be going for additional training.

A few years ago another good friends horribly abusive father in law was taken into hospital. She couldn't stand him but her husband would bring groceries to him weekly but was always stressed from seeing him, however briefly.

He was taken into hospital after a fall and the hospital rang to TELL her husband to collect him and bring him home.
Fortunately my friend was with him when the call came and was well able to put a flea in the ear of the woman calling, that there would be no collection of him and not to ring this number again.
She followed up with a stinker email laying out his abuse of her husband, and said they were never to be contacted about him again.
Its two years on and after 40 years her lovely husband is finally letting go of his grief through no contact.
Poor man wishes he had been able to do it years earlier.

When my neighbours husband died 25 years ago and i had 3 small children she asked me about my husband cutting her grass, we have large old gardens.
I asked her about her 3 sons and was told they had "very busy careers"🙄.
I told her VERY firmly but sweetly, that so did MY husband. The cheek of her.
I studiously avoided her for the rest of her days, having gotten the measure of her. Waving and no more after that.

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I'm sorry to hear all of this. ❤

Sorry to take so long to respond too. I never noticed the reponses at the time. I think the thread dropped a bit down my watched threads and I lost track of it, til someone bumped it back up earlier. Wish I had seen the Jeremy Vine Show today. Maybe I can get it on Catch Up On Demand.

SweetBaklava · 21/05/2026 22:35

Zov · 21/05/2026 22:08

I'm sorry to hear all of this. ❤

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@Zovit was his radio show, you can listen again on BBC Sounds, it’s just over an hour into the show

Zov · 21/05/2026 22:47

SweetBaklava · 21/05/2026 22:35

@Zovit was his radio show, you can listen again on BBC Sounds, it’s just over an hour into the show

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Oh thank you @SweetBaklava

Seymour5 · 21/05/2026 22:59

@zov thank you for the links. Because we have no family nearby, we want to remain in our locality where we have support, and there is a huge lack of suitable properties.

Zov · Yesterday 08:26

Seymour5 · 21/05/2026 22:59

@zov thank you for the links. Because we have no family nearby, we want to remain in our locality where we have support, and there is a huge lack of suitable properties.

Oh, that's OK @Seymour5 I really hope you manage to find some kind of retirement place soon that is long term rent/lifetime tenancy .

Seymour5 · Yesterday 09:19

Zov · Yesterday 08:26

Oh, that's OK @Seymour5 I really hope you manage to find some kind of retirement place soon that is long term rent/lifetime tenancy .

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🤞🏼I’ll let you know if we get lucky!

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