each to their own
weathergirl jane etc..Ok, I see how somebody who has to work extremely hard for their deposit would be annoyed when another person gets it handed to them, I hate seeing people I know get rent allowance, corpo housing etc and they don't lift a finger, and I'm not talking about people who need it, I'm talking about the thousands of women defrauding the social welfare system because they live with their partners without declaring it. However thats none of my business, like its none of yours as to how I get my house. I work very hard in a badly paid job, my own fault I know and intend to improve myself by going to college (while I work), but we cant save and pay the rent we do at the same time, we'd be saving for years and the prices just keep going up and up, rents going up and up, bills, bincharges, public transport, doctors charges all going up. It wouldn't be a problem but I have a young son now and I need somewhere safe, secure and stable for him to live in, not meandering from damp hovel to damp hovel. For the first 6 months of his life I lived in a 2 bed appart where I had no fire escapes, I had to carry the buggy up and down the stairs, damp, drafty, faulty heating, etc. I don't have a car, I shop in lidl when I can get a lift, I don't have satellite, nice furniture, big wardrobe of clothes, DVD player, wide screen telly, stereo system, fancy nights out on the town or a holiday in the last two years. I sit in everynight, have a bottle of wine on a friday, invite friends over and I'm still skint at the end of the month, saving 25k would be impossible. When I say I'm on low income, I'm on low income, in fact we both are on low incomes! My parents were going to buy a property as an investment and rent it out but decided to wait a few more years and give me the deposit instead, no strings, she said, "I hate seeing you pay all of that money for nothing" and she's right, if anything its the extortionate rent young people have to pay to greedy landlords (parents also) thats causing the high demand for housing, we're being ripped off left right and centre. Why are there so many people on waiting lists, because they want to get away from renting, all walks of life, teachers, nurses, low income families, all cant afford deposits for their own homes and are trying co-ownership or whatever option is on offer to them. I havn't asked my parents to put their own home against my mortgage, I wouldn't dare, they worked to hard for it, but if they can give me the deposit at no financial burden to themselves then I'm taking it. Also, I could make you pay, I'm not married, I could have claimed to be a single parent on my own, got the rent allowance, medical card, one parent income aswell as living with daddy and benifiting from his income, then wait a few years another child perhaps and get housed by the council, all at your expense, all helping to clogg up lists, push up demand and also prices.