credit crunch and estate agents
Oh Yes! It’s Friday!
This week has been a great week, I’ve worked a lot but everything has been a success. As a latest news, I can already tell you (I’ve just received the contract signed off) that I am going to stay in the same property I’ve stayed last two years with a major change: My rent is 430GBP per month cheaper!! Why? Credit Crunch, I suppose, someone has to benefit from it, don’t you think?
How I achieve it? Are you thinking to try dropping the price from your rent? Here you are the email I sent to the estate agent:
Hi XXXX,
I hope you are well,
I’ve talked to my girlfriend and flatmate and it looks like he is going to leave us (he is probably losing his job).
I would like to keep the flat but we don’t want to share it anymore, things are quite mad in London and bankers/consultants don’t know how long are they going to stay in the same job/place/city.
To be realistic, only this kind of people will afford the price the landlord is asking for. So my question is, do you think would be possible to drop the price of the flat to XXX GBP pw (our max budget) so we can keep it without sharing it? If not we will have to move to another one.Thank you,
Regards,
Your welcome!
See you next week, I am off to Lisbon the weekend! 
December 15th, 2008 10:41 pm
I would say… have you been paying 430GBP a month too much for the last 2 years? if he didnt raise them in good times… he already thought it was far too expensive….
just to let you think.
cuidat!
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