All news on the topic: Renting

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'I was forced to move out for doing my job - neighbours didn't like the noise'
Fiona Fey made the touch decision to move out of her flat after neighbours repeatedly banged on the ceiling and complained any time she would try to practice her music
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Renter left seething over 'scum' landlord's cleaning inspection checklist
A renter has shared the extensive list of demands his landlord has issued before a routine inspection of the property, which includes things live turning over the soil in the garden
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Horrified house hunters slam £550-a-month 'flat-share' with 8 bunk beds in dorm
The furnished flat posted on Rightmove is described as including a 'shared dorm room with six to eight beds' and shared shower facilities - but house hunters have likened it to a 'prison'
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Moment landlord breaks through tenant's front door with a saw in terrifying clip
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT - Dr Muhammed Raheel said he, his wife and two daughters are living in fear after his landlord tried to break into his home twice in a row over unpaid rent
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Easy renovations for renters that won't make you miss out on your deposit
You might feel stuck with your beige rental property thanks to landlord restrictions but there's plenty to be done to make it a home with your personal taste shining through
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'Most inbred family' use $50K donated by kind folk to transform squalid shack
A GoFundMe page was set-up to help the Whittaker family, from Odd which is 75 miles from Charleston, US, improve their home after it had leaky roofs, mould and collapsing walls
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'Abusive and coercive' landlord ordered to repay £2,817 in rent to tenants
Tenants claimed the landlord 'persistently' visited the property, causing them 'anxiety' and alleged he ordered one of them to leave the home
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'In a cost-of-living crisis, it should be a priority to protect renters'
I was gobsmacked when a pal told me she was made to pay to view a rental flat. When I asked her why she didn’t tell the estate agent where to go, she shrugged: 'That’s just how it is now'
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The cheapest areas to rent in UK in 2023 during cost of living crisis
Rents for Brits rose to record highs last year as the cost of living crisis hit wallets hard - with London now one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in
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Renter astonished by £1,300 flat with a kitchen that's also the bedroom
A woman looking to move in with her boyfriend went to view what she believed would be a spacious studio flat with enough room for them both, but when she actually got there, she was left speechless
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Thousands of tenants face 'no fault' eviction amid huge rent rises
'No fault' section 21 evictions soared from 792 to 1,942 between the last three months of 2021 and the same period last year, according to Office for National Statistics figures
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'Our Airbnb owner left us in the dark, I couldn't even read a book to my son'
A count and countess complained their Airbnb landlord left them in the dark after cutting off their electricity. Countess Christine Bolza was awarded over £100,000 after she claimed she and her husband Count Niki Bolza fell out with their landlord
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Renters 'face paying extra £1billion in energy bills' due to Government delays
The proposed energy efficiency standards would make all properties with new tenancies have an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of at least a band C by 2025
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Fifth of pet-owning tenants evicted - after landlord found out about their pet
One in ten tenants are currently hiding an animal from their landlord, and a quarter have done so in the past - with cats and dogs the most common
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Uni sends in bailiffs to 'drag' students striking over rent from building
Students at the University of Manchester have been protesting over what they have slammed as extortionate rent payments, occupying a number of buildings on campus
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'My girlfriend wants us to live apart because of the mess I make in our flat'
Coleen advises a reader whose girlfriend of six years wants to live separately due to their mess around the shared apartment, leaving them worried for the future
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Renters £500 a year worse off compared to homeowners - see most expensive areas
Halfiax's research found that the average monthly cost of owning a three-bedroom house for first time buyers was £971 while for renters the monthly cost was around £1,013 a month
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Landlord to pay 95% of rent back after after court ruling over 'unfit' home
The court ruled that the tenant's home was "not fit for human habitation" and the landlord had "acted in cynical disregard of his obligations as a landlord"
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Mum's horror as energy company turns up after 'house was used as cannabis farm'
Single mum Melissa Phillips was at home in Leeds with her two children when SSE OVO turned up to change her meter discovering previous tenants had allegedly powered a cannabis farm
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Family of 6 move into double-decker bus that costs just £6 a day to save on rent
Conrad Kirk and Nicole McCarthy, from Rotherham, have moved into a double-decker bus with their four children and two dogs to save over £1,000 a month and say they'd 'never live in a house again'
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Woman saves £5k by turning old caravan into lavish nail salon using TikTok video
Nail technician Nyasha Maponga, 23, from Leeds, turned a £400 second-hand caravan into a luxurious nail salon to create a space to work from home - and saved herself over £5,000 in the process
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Man moves into a skip that costs just £50 a month 'to save money on rent'
Harrison Marshall was shocked by the cost of renting a property in London so he thought he'd skip that, quite literally, as he converted a skip into a home and lives in that instead
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Martin Lewis forced to deliver devastating blow to woman facing £500 rent hike
For the recent episode, Martin Lewis brought in a rental expert Siobhan Taylor-Ward, who is a housing solicitor at Vauxhall Law Centre and works to support renters
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Landlord slammed after filming himself telling tenant he's doubling her rent
Landlord Raul Bolufe, from Miami, US, has been criticised for uploading a video to TikTok which shows the moment he tries to double the rent of a mum-of-two working two jobs
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Landlord makes 'nightmare' discovery after complaints of 'foul smell' in home
A landlord made a shocking discovery inside her rental home after she received multiple complaints from tenants describing a 'foul smell' wafting through the house