Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Stan, he he ha ha, brilliant............ fair tickled me.

Stan, he he ha ha, brilliant............ fair tickled me.

i too find it humorous, not least because i certainly do not see myself as being particularly right wing though relative to you ersatz socialists, perhaps i am

"not least because i certainly do not see myself as being right wing"

.. He's a laugh a minute isn't he? -):

As opposed to the socialists, who have no sense of humour!

Cyners the capital I place in new lettings comes from my personal savings pot. Its all organic pyramid capital growth.

Not one penny do I borrow to finance my growing property empire. Its all internaly funded, I cant say that for 2 of our 7 synndicate. I do know they borrow from the bank some of their investment. But its certainly not the bespoke buy to let funding the article points to.

I also rent out on usual at about 10% lower than the max rent payable as laid down by the local council/quango fair market rent policy.

Im now on my 5th high flat development which is not the norm for tennants more short term business men with short stay, the top few floors going to hign nett wealthy individuals.

Im certainly not the rent to buy landlord as described in that article and you seem to have mistaken the whole point of the authors negative take on the rental housing market.

No sense of humour, -uck me that coming from you Hays as made my day.

Maybe my humour is too subtle for you,

The words subtle and Haystack do not compute.

Maybe your humours non existent you mean.

Anyway you dont have to have a sense of humour to be interesting.

Just look at past cases eg, Steve Davies.

provided you are a good and fair landlord, what does it matter if you borrow to buy-to-let ..... indeed, there is surely a strong argument that by leveraging, you actually help those who need to rent

i don't bother to read rabid rantings from whichever quarter they emanate


stan - i have a picture of you in my mind's eye as something of an andy capp :-)

Good and fair buy to let landlord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! which planet are you living on?.

Anyway if you read deeply enough it suggests more council houses should be built rather than crooks living of the poor helped out by the tax payer funding Housing Benefit.

"I take children in and we have running water"...........

Another picture of Alf, in colour this time just like his language -):

moi for starters!

how could one be against more council houses, but as i have said before, far too many people, the young especially, have champagne tastes with less than beer incomes, and then they get sniffy if what they are offered doesn't have a garden and garage

also, from where are you going to get cheap land for your new homes and/or what about all the existing brown sites and run-down housing stock?

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i thought it was jimmy saville who talked about taking children in :-)

More houses should be built. Don't forget that the last government had one of the worst records ever for house building. It is a bit rich when the two Eds complain about house building when they were assistants to Brown as Chancellor. On the other hand Labour have always been long on hypocrisy.

that as may be, but i was not taking political sides

No! more homes should not be built.. We are overpopulated on this island as it is.

except that there is still a shortage of housing, especially cheap, proper first-time buyer stuff .... and i don't want to hear gripes about them being like egg boxes