With almost thirty percent of the population in UK living in rented accommodations, there are roughly one million landlords in the UK. Not all of us have a dream home and due to the job requirements and opportunities, many move from one rented flat to another, dealing with lazy landlords, and neighbours, good and bad. They endure the tribulations of newly built housing complexes and the insecurity of never knowing how long they can stay in one place, or indeed, if they even want to.
When looking for rental accommodations, some homes specifically the budget apartments London are indeed cheaper. But having been through the rut and after our experience of dealing with so many not-so-worth places, we naturally find it suspicious. We also know that, often, when things are cheap, they’re so for a reason. There has to be something about them that makes them so affordable and that has to do with something lacking in the place. The low rent homes offer something different than those at the high end of the market. Houses that are cheaply priced often have the following to offer:
1. Mould. Most houses are plenty of mould, covering all surfaces. Mould is unhealthy and linked to respiratory illness but when people have no option left they make peace with these.
2. No central heating or no heating at all. Although central heating is the basic amenity that landlords must provide in a place like London, homes without them are still blatantly rented out.
3. Renting out ASAP. Most of the times, the letting agents trick you into renting an accommodation just because the landlord will rent it out ASAP to anyone who walks in first. And yet, the landlord keeps the same policy for evacuation too, driving out the tenant early and at times, without even furnishing a notice.
4. Dubious neighbourhood. One of the worst situations to be in is to have a questionable neighbourhood. You always live under the fear of getting trapped into something you may not even have a remote connection with.
6. Fewer transport links. There are places with no trams, trains or buses and to make things worse, you cannot afford a car. So how exactly would you travel? Buses appear only when the satnav plays tricks. Fares often turn out to be expensive, which means a trip the supermarket is a costly treat, and outings must be planned like an invasion.
8. Rickety walls. Many cheap accommodations have these rickety walls, which actually seem to be able to move – especially the internal partitions that are often made of cardboard or plaster board. That’s because the owner has added several teeny-tiny extra rooms to the little place he has for renting out.
9. Dilapidated furniture. The furniture is not only old, but broken. It is even infested with vermin including fleas and damp runs in torrents down the walls. Such is the condition of the houses that claim to be cheaply priced than others.
Such conditions around the places that one is going to rent, is certainly a sad state of affairs. But that is how the game runs where tenants remain at the mercy of lazy landlords. This hardly makes anyone wonder why people in the UK are so desperate to build houses of their own.
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