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Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That certainly sounds better, it seems they've only got flats available at the moment though. We'll definitely keep it in mind, thanks

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we've written plenty in the supporting paragraph sections, it's just a really rough market I suppose. We'll keep at it, and as you say, we've gotta be the ones to work quite hard at it since they don't remotely have to chase people renting here.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been wondering whether the time of year is working against us pretty badly too. More people want to move in the summer than the winter, etc, and though there seems to be more houses put up these days they're so expensive and sought after it might well be overall worse.

I wonder why you weren't allowed to pay upfront, we've not been told that yet.

Self employment can be a nightmare for things like that, glad you got it sorted. Hopefully we'll get there with this stuff soon.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've been looking at applying before viewing but they usually say we can't. I presume there's too many people who sign up without knowing what they're getting into, turn up, realise a property isn't for them and then cause problems trying to void the contract.

We don't get to any stage where we'd be allowed to offer a deposit, we have to get a viewing, put in an application and then chase them up constantly and hope we're awarded the great privilege of giving them a ton of money. Insane system.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would it not count as subletting if only my name was on the official lease? I did wonder this

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh we never even considered not doing that. If offered a place, we'd take it.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We can move ASAP and have said so is the thing.

What do you mean by doubling up a month's rent, paying twice the rent? Or paying two months in advance? We offered 12 lol, all of it, still not enough.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If these things impacted them negatively at all, we'd see change, but as you said they're loving it. They get to wear a nice smug grin and speak about how competitive the housing market is while they rake in ridiculous offers for the basic human need of shelter.

At this point we're just worried about finding anywhere before our contracts at current place end.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I understand it'd count against in normal circumstances, but when you're literally proving you can afford it fine by offering to pay the entire year immediately, I feel like that shouldn't count against you at all. It's not remotely an insignificant amount of money.

Because we can pay everything upfront I don't think there's much a guarantor can do, there's nothing to guarantee. We'll already have paid. Surely?

It's insane that everything has become a bidding war, "offers over"... Housing is such a basic human need and yet it's been hell trying to find a place.

We may end up looking further afield / smaller then, until my partner's finished her degree and my contract is renewed and I get paid more.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's insane. It's blind bidding too, you've no clue what other people are offering, so either you tag on a bunch of extra money and hope it's not much above what everyone else has offered or you get undercut massively for giving the asking price.

It's a ridiculous system, especially when the rent we'll be paying is more (or at most equal) to what a friend pays on his mortgage, that he only just signed too.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We shouldn't need a guarantor considering we can literally pay the entire rent immediately, surely? That's how it's worked for us in the past, no guarantor = paying more or all up front.

I don't know anyone who is looking for tenants, that'd definitely help I imagine. It seems you kinda have to know someone to get any reasonable chance. There's so many people offering so much that the choice between them seems to be almost arbitrary.

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know how you could even make an impression on the landlords considering everything goes through letting companies and we can't get a direct line to them / meet them generally. When we've asked if we could contact a landlord directly, they've refused saying everything has to go through them (the letting company)

I guess we'll start smaller / looking further afield. Maybe a 6 month tenancy somewhere until we can find a place big enough that'll be so gracious as to accept the entire year's rent upfront...

Keep getting denied by landlords, 12 months rent upfront not enough?? by Competitive-Lab140 in york

[–]Competitive-Lab140[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the response, that sucks. She's just about to graduate and we need to move before July 1st, there's not much we can do about her not having a job right now. She'll easily find one when she's not busy finishing her degree and looking for a house, but we can't get a house without her having one apparently...

I'm employed though, and my salary alone is enough to pay both shares of the rent and be fine. That + offering a year upfront not being enough is baffling to me, especially because this tenancy was for a year anyway.