For the past eight years I've been renting on the private market in London and more recently in North Yorkshire. And let me tell you: no man has ever made me feel as insecure as some landlords.
The anxious thoughts, which had started as a wave, soon became a tsunami. Leaving the house was so hard, a supermarket visit was a strain.
What was the cause of all this terror and pain? A bereavement? Delayed emotional aftershocks from my painful divorce? Or loss of a precious job?I once owned a £2 million Georgian house in a London square. My downward spiral has been well documented: job loss, stupidity, divorce and a stalker next door that forced me to sell up at a huge loss.
For the past eight years I've been renting on the private market — for a time in London and more recently in North Yorkshire. And let me tell you: no man has ever made me feel as insecure as some landlords And it's not just that, to some people, renting marks you out as a failure, as feckless or not to be trusted.
The last thing you want is to rejoin the winding queue of people looking for somewhere to live. Figures in July reported that a rental property in the UK receives an average of 20 applicants. I promptly went into freefall. I had to cover London Fashion Week a few days later, knowing viewings were taking place in my absence, that photos of my bed linen, my sofa, were now online, that my four dogs and I could be turfed out in weeks.
I rented when I was a student — I shared a room with another girl — and in my 20s, too, and was used to being humiliated by landlords. I rented a bedsit in Barnes, South-West London, with a kitchen I could use only if the owners were out. I wasn't allowed to have friends round, or to sit in the garden.
The stress if you're a parent who has to rent must be off the scale. I grew up in a rented house, one of seven children. He turned up while she was watching me take date and time-stamped photos of the utility meters, resulting in a swiftly fired email from her saying: 'The flat is single occupancy only!!!'
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