Buy to Let

Yes - so long as you don't pay over the odds for the property, avoid high gearing, avoid void periods, get good tenants who don't trash the place.

In other words, no.

BTW great site.

Direct Quote taken from the First Time Buyer section.

"There aren't enough council houses to go round, especially with people from all over the world flocking to England to claim our benefits."

Thats a bit politically Incorrect is it not? Sounds like somthing you would see on the BNP website

While you can't take tax a population and hand over their money to migrants making fraudulent claims - only a space cadet would argue otherwise - the real problem is that New Labour are more thatcherite than Thatcher. In this instance it has meant government involvement in housing is now virtually nothing. There's no social/affordable housing for Mr. or Mrs. Daily-Grind who can't afford market rates, as in order to qualify for help you have to be 'needy' - ie. a mentally ill, one-legged, single parent from Afghanistan. As the oppositon party is an even more whacko right-libertarian 'privatise the air' outfit, it's easier all-round to just keep blaming some gang-exploited migrant for the now unbelievably bad housing crisis.

Now that the Utility Windfall Tax money has gone, the right-wing government lacks any ability to put progressive programs into action. What you have left is the rich and corporations enjoying a friendly tax regieme while Joe average can't make ends meet and feels badly 'overtaxed'.

Whenever extreme freemarkteers like Blair and Brown are in office the middle class shrinks and the poor are trodden into the mud.

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It certainly does compromise the trust you place in a website's contents when you read that kind of thing. Don't think I'll go back there...

Yeah well they have religious convictions, which is always the tip of the iceberg. They may thinks it's fine to have babies in your 50s but the rest of the population would rather have them at a more biologically appropriate time.

Anyone who thinks Blair and Brown are "extreme freemarketeers" has a very strange understanding of what a free market is.

If we had a free market in land, for instance, we wouldn't have to fit

Do what I did and bought a flat with a tennant already in it, you can just see if they look after the place and you can ask what the landlord was like over repairs etc....................I am doing very well out of it and I have a delightful tennant