Nah, I'm not buying it.
Someone who took the banks on and won does not pay £900 pcm to live in a shabby house with no double glazing and knackered plumbing.

Unless you've found a gold seam under the kitchen floor that is.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 16:06, 2 replies)

I can
provide photographic evidence if it pleases.

If I didn't want knackered plumbing and no double glazing, I'd be paying a shed load more than 900 quid a month.

All taking on the banks did for me, was get my own money back - in total about 2.5k - around 5 years ago now.

Not really enough to live the rock-star lifestyle on, I'm sure you will agree.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 16:52, closed)

Yet you've never
taken the landlord to account over this? His neglect to repair the leaky shower sounds like a breach of Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 Section 11.(1)(b) and arguably Section 10. My mate Ray did the same with his landlord when he had a leaky roof. After threatening the landlord with a formal letter and quoting a bit of legislation adding that he can withhold the rent to pay for it himself if they don't get a move on, they had a roofer round in 24 hours.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 17:46, closed)

Where do you live?

(Nanny Pat vote for me, Thu 3 Jun 2010, 0:31, closed)

I'm not buying it either.
This is the guy that doesn't have a bank account, and when asked about the lack of interest that the contents of his safe receives, said that he does such things as buys houses, guitars, items of value such as art etc for cash, then sells them later at a profit.

So, you can afford to buy and sell houses for cash, have a safe in your bedroom that always has thousands of pounds cash inside it, but you rent a shit tip house?

I detect the heady stench of bullshit. Either you've made up your current situation in a bizarre display of poverty tourism, or you've lied about your cash-filled safe, your vast income and pretty much your whole lifestyle.

All anyone who's curious about this peculiar state of affairs needs to do is peruse your profile and answers.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 20:05, closed)

Not always.
Sometimes, if I've saved and/or sold something, then there will be a fair chunk of dosh in there.

...and I rarely sell things. The things I have bought were for investment, not quick profit.

Houses here are expensive, this is the best deal I could get.

I nearly had to go for a 4 bed place in the next village along - that would have meant just under 1500 quid a month.

I'm not claiming poverty, I'm merely answering the question, which was; Would I be better off not working - I think there's benefit to both. Not working would mean my outgoings would more than halve, and dental treatment etc... would be free.

Admittedly, at the start of the year when I had massive toothache, I did also have a massive tax bill to pay as well, rendering me unable to pay the 200 quid to get my teeth fixed, so I may have stretched the truth inadvertently by not putting that bit in.
(dchurch bah, Thu 3 Jun 2010, 7:48, closed)

So where do you live then?
Sounds like pretty steep house prices.
Even steeper than London in fact.....
(Nanny Pat vote for me, Thu 3 Jun 2010, 12:55, closed)