I remember when Maggie T (Our Blessed Lady of Finchley) enabled everyone to buy their council house .... despite my offering to help them with the mortgage, my Dad refused to buy his for £1500 on the grounds that
(i) "House owning wasn't for the likes of 'us'"
(ii) He would have to pay for external painting and all repairs 'forever'
After he died Mum moved into a "Warden assisted" bungalow, still paying rent until she died.
Our old house was built 1959 and we were the first to live in it. The people who moved in when Mum moved out waited until the council double glazed it and promptly bought it. It sold again about 4 years ago for £150,000.
I still can't work out Dad's logic but every fecking repair I pay for here the more convinced I become that he was probably right.
The elder daughter, following her divorce managed to get a Housing Association house for her and her daughter .... she remarried a few years later but refuses, despite their large joint income, to buy anything.
Every fecking repair I pay for here the more convinced I become that she is probably right.
