Wednesday, July 25, 2007
What is a Bedsit?
This is a frequently asked question to search engines and lo! people find their way onto this blog. See earlier entries about the fun I had when living in a bedsit.
Now here's the response:
Bedsits are rooms in a house where the owner or landlord has decided to let out his / her rooms to individuals (supposedly). One has to share facilities such as kitchen, bathroom and bog. Bedsits are relatively cheap, but like all privately rented accommodation the tenants have very few rights - whether you keep up with your rent does not secure you a home for life, oh no - the Landlord can get you out at a month's notice. He can also hassle you over this and that, if you want to keep your room for the foreseeable future it is best to be acquiescent, otherwise you will be trudging the streets again.
Conditions within a house may vary - I was living in a house that was cockroach infested and I had hours of fun gunning them down with a spray loaded with Dettol. The cooker was constantly filthy and the surrounding area around the cooker was as slippery as an ice rink. The bath was rarely clean, likewise the bog.
Your fellow residents can be quite varied - noisy Albanians coming in at all hours to the smouldering axe murderers.
You have to a strong stomach and high degree of tolerance to live in such an environment.
It is a few steps removed from living in a doss house or sleeping on the street. It's no fun at all.
Of course, giving that we live in a situation where we are free to choose - we can always hope to buy affordable accommodation on offer for a quarter of a million quid by some benevolent property developer - he is obviously going through extremes of poverty to offer you the place at such a paltry price, all because he loves you and he cares.
Now here's the response:
Bedsits are rooms in a house where the owner or landlord has decided to let out his / her rooms to individuals (supposedly). One has to share facilities such as kitchen, bathroom and bog. Bedsits are relatively cheap, but like all privately rented accommodation the tenants have very few rights - whether you keep up with your rent does not secure you a home for life, oh no - the Landlord can get you out at a month's notice. He can also hassle you over this and that, if you want to keep your room for the foreseeable future it is best to be acquiescent, otherwise you will be trudging the streets again.
Conditions within a house may vary - I was living in a house that was cockroach infested and I had hours of fun gunning them down with a spray loaded with Dettol. The cooker was constantly filthy and the surrounding area around the cooker was as slippery as an ice rink. The bath was rarely clean, likewise the bog.
Your fellow residents can be quite varied - noisy Albanians coming in at all hours to the smouldering axe murderers.
You have to a strong stomach and high degree of tolerance to live in such an environment.
It is a few steps removed from living in a doss house or sleeping on the street. It's no fun at all.
Of course, giving that we live in a situation where we are free to choose - we can always hope to buy affordable accommodation on offer for a quarter of a million quid by some benevolent property developer - he is obviously going through extremes of poverty to offer you the place at such a paltry price, all because he loves you and he cares.
Labels: accommodation, bedsit, property, property developers;, rent
