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.

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

Loads of houses in this country that could be renovated if the government had the will.

I propose bringing back the Old Grant system where a young couple can get a grant from their LA subject to conditions ie, getting renovation done on time and making sure its for the purposes they say its for ie, to live in and they have to live their for at least say 5 years.

None of these Asian landlords corupting the system and doing dirty deals with the builder.ie, 50/50(reason why they were kicked into touch)

And then an inspector to check up every now and again.

The countrys full of voids. Look at Liverpool street after street all houses empty, same in loads of places, usualy ex mining towns, obviously the government would have to have a industrial regeneration programme going on in the areas picked.

is it necessarily the government's (taxpayer's) job?
there ought to be a way of housing trusts and housebuilders working hand in hand, though there was an unamusing story the other day about a housing trust gazumping would-be buyers
i have also seen odd occasions where local councils have offered derelict houses at very silly money, but with strings attached re renovating them and stuff .... but yes, another very good way forward

There certainly is "not" a shortage of houses in this country Alf as my right honourable friend G/F clearly states -):

surely liverpool already has a well-established regeneration programme, though of course these things still take 5-10 years before the effect can be felt

Nice place Liverpool

http://news.sky.com/story/1274468/pensioner-eaten-alive-by-dog-women-jailed