#37

Just had a cold shiver remembering this shitshow, both as advertiser and seeker…

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#38

Generally agree with this

Although I was in a flatshare in edinburgh where my room was half the size and the same price, but it was at the back (so quieter, except in summer thanks to the fucking Air BnB next door) AND it had double glazing, which the bigger rooms didn’t. So it was marginally less freezing in the Scottish winter. 1-0 barleysugar!

#39

this definitely sounds like the premise for a terrible final year art school exhibit

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#40

Yup. Those days were wild. Do you know this track ? Sums up the Loot experience for me, 1m30 on

#41

It’s 20 years later, it was Islington & it was cheap rent. We interviewed 50/60 people. Must be a Keith Allen in there somewhere

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#42

They were basically asking if he was going to be living off chicken nuggets and fish fingers but I don’t think they realised there was a midpoint where you can be a decent housemate and eat a fish finger sandwich twice a year.

#43

This is an amazing story, I would like to see the tapes just to see the different styles of the time let alone their surprise at the questions and being filmed!

#44

Imagine your parents expecting a seven year old to pay council tax though.

#45

Says a lot about the UK housing situation that “the dream” scenario is a shabby houseshare with someone who’s not there too often.

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#46

I’m quite curious about them now that I’ve remembered it too. Wouldn’t be surprised if one of them was actually a DiSser

#47

one of my atds technically lives with a tory MP, but apparently he’s there maybe 1 night every 2 months or something. always think about smearing the MPs bed with shit or equivalent every time i’m there

#48

(London centric buuut) Seems utterly laughable now that I lived on my own in zone 2 when I was 23.

#49

One of my colleagues is planning to move out of London (Crystal Palace) to High Wycombe so we were looking at property sites. For a laugh I put in a budget of half a mil to see what was available anywhere near me (Brockley and environs). Jesus Christ… it was bleak.

Having said that, my wife’s friend is trying to sell a flat in Blackheath / Shooter’s Hill she bought maybe three years ago, and is struggling to get offers even now she’s dropped it to the price she paid for it in the first place.

#50

Too many shooters around there tho

#51

I think if you have a much bigger room you should pay a bigger slice of the rent, or if that’s not possible at least use the other shared living areas less. I’'d be happy to have a smaller room, but in return for that i’d expect people to not be slobbing all over the living room all the time, otherwise you might as well live in a bedsit.

#52

The London Overground being on the underground map has opened up a lot of SE London to BTL landlords and renters. Once you could rent a 2 bed flat in Brockley cheaper than a 1 bed in Tooting. All because the latter was on the tube map and the former wasn’t.

I remember Ken Livingstone stating the pros for the Overground. That house prices go up if a station is on the tube map.

#53

I enjoyed this

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#54

Yeah, we considered taking other factors into account such as whether the room was at the quiet front or noisy back, or whether it was 1st or 2nd floor (due to proximity to neighbour on ground), and even the volume of the rooms (as the two biggest are identical in plan but one has a sloping roof on the side), but everyone seemed happy at the time.

I think the smallest room in ours is £190 then two @ £200 and two @ £230

~£500 extra per year between largest and smallest seems fair

#55

nice read. i reckon the more you screen potential housemates the more likely you’re going to end up with a nightmare tosser housemate. anyone can put on an act or lie to get a room. i always kind of laugh when i get the old ‘sceptical looks, no chance these guys are going to be calling me back’ because i don’t match up to their ideal professional yuppie housemate. good luck with that, some of the worst people i’ve lived with ticked all the ‘model housemate’ boxes

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#56

Be cautious of people who tell you everything you want to hear. One of many life lessons from Frozen.

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