People are coming back with answers. My assumptions tumble, and once again, I am reminded to suspend judgement. The answers are far more positive than expected, and therefore, I have to change an idea from critical to celebratory. ( that means making my bankslave poster is for later, and for myself, and for another event…)

However, there appear to be a concensus that letting property is a theoretically good thing which doesn’t work. The properties are not cared for, neither by landlord not tenants. It doesn’t need to be that way, as a large part of Europe happily rent continoulsy and live in well managed flats. This is not alwyas the case in the UK. People of Great George Street comment on Question Nr. 4. What are your thoughts about rental property? :

‘My experience of renting, especially through agencies, has been that tenants (who are typically the poorest people) are horribly, horribly ripped off, feel completely powerless to do anything about it, and have to put up with holes in ceilings, mouldy bedrooms, broken central heating, and leaks, because the agency never does what it promises to do, then takes money out of the deposit when the tenant finally escapes for ‘cleaning’ when they’ve left the place a million times cleaner than when they moved in. ‘

‘My own experience over living in a block of flats is that some of the people who are renting don’t take as much care of the communal areas as those who own.’

‘Its an excellent idea and should be encouraged more in UK’

‘I tend to think people take better care of what they own.’

My ‘To Let’ poster is the visual response to the feedback so far.