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Suzy OShea

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what becomes difficult for elderly to budget for are the long-term increases in rent if they don't have generous pensions. We all know that the state pension is just soul food and would never cover rent as well as other living costs. Rents in retirement communities are higher because there are added services like wardens. yet buying in these communities also involves very high services charges for similar reasons. My advice if you have a large house that is too large for you to cope with, keep a spare room for a carer which you may well need and rent out a couple of rooms to defray future costs. Its a far better option than paying vast sums for retirement homes. Don't like the idea of 'sharing your home with strangers'. Well, what do you think you'll be doing in a retirement home where the dwellings are split into flats? if you get a bad neighbour, it can make your life miserable and you have absolutely no control. Keeping lodgers in your home who turn out to be noisy or anti-social, you can evict them in three weeks. most large houses could even have enough space to provide your own ground floor flat with bathrooms adapted for the elderly. Making the upper floor a shared rental space with a kitchen is not difficult. Employing a cleaner on a weekly basis for both premises means you retain ultimate control over what goes on in the shared rental space and can defray the cleaning costs of your own flat as part of the maintenance charges. if ever you came to sell your house, some tax would be due on the part used to generate income, but this is better than other alternatives.

From: Suzy OShea 16 January 2020 10:06 AM

They would be in a much more worrying situation if they had bought a home, having put down a deposit of £20,000 or more and then were lOoking at losing this because their jobs were under threat and they could not pay the mortgage! Home-owners are usually much more indebted than tenants in the private sector because they are usually paying off debts on furniture too! When are people going stop playing the 'poor me' card and take some responsibility for their decisions in life!

From: Suzy OShea 15 January 2020 10:42 AM

Mark Wilson: what do you think the purpose of a trade body is but, amongst other things, to lobby government for better terms for LL in the PRS? So when all the small landlords have sold up to either home buyers or to larger corporate landlords, do you think that there will still be as much rental property available as before? And if not, how will all the now homeless tenants be housed? Or is this conservative government planning to build more social and council housing with all the maintenance costs for the future that this entails?

From: Suzy OShea 02 January 2020 19:08 PM

Would that also apply to the CONservative party?

From: Suzy OShea 21 November 2019 12:21 PM

The damned conservative governments have caused this housing crisis, their speculating friends have profited from it, and no doubt donated to the party for the privilege, and now the Conservative party, desperate for votes after nigh on a decade of misrule is scapegoating the private rented sector for their own evil policies! of neglect!

From: Suzy OShea 22 August 2019 12:16 PM

What a load a load of 'brown nosing' rubbish from ARLA. Glad I don't belong to this traitorous organisation! Have they forgotten who they are supposed to be helping and representing? Furthermore, I can't think of a single responsible landlord who would not be happy to give his new tenants a one year contract! So what is all this nonsense! its just the f*cking Conservatives trying to make political capital out of a desperately needed resource - housing! And the main reason for this housing crisis is both the lack of investment in social housing by both local and central governments. Central government is even more to blame because their austerity budget cuts to local governments have left them so poorly funded that they can't even maintain the estates of social housing stocks they have. Thus, these estates fall into such disrepair that they can only be demolished and sold to property developers - who will make far less provision for social housing

From: Suzy OShea 22 August 2019 12:04 PM

For many years it was a legal obligation to dispaly the current Gas Safety Certificate on a notice board in the property. When did this legal obligation change to issuing it with the tenancy agreement and the 'How To Rent' booklet?

From: Suzy OShea 04 July 2019 10:07 AM

Let's hope that who ever is elected will be listening!

From: Suzy OShea 03 July 2019 16:20 PM

Given the corruption of this government over Brexit and other issues, I don't think Generation Rent will be fooled into voting for the CONservatives any time soon!

From: Suzy OShea 08 May 2019 13:25 PM

Yet another example of this corrupt administration's and other MPs continuing expenses scandal. Little has changed since the last one! Disgraceful! And now they want private landlords to have to house delinquent tenants for months on end before getting a resolution and having to pay lawyers through the nose to get an eviction. An eviction letter cost me £750 two years ago! Luckily the tenant left!

From: Suzy OShea 16 April 2019 09:26 AM

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