This is the week of the year when students flood into London looking for somewhere to stay for the upcoming academic year. Over the next 3 weeks there will be a great bun fight as students and landlords pal up or fall out. For the students maybe their life and career will be destroyed by a poor decision about accommodation leading to an unhappy and unsuccessful year at study. For parents there is the worry of imagining their child in some garret, rats chewing their toes at night, daughters lodging with prostitutes and rapists, sons knifed as they negotiate the street gangs on their way home from the library. For Landlords there is the prospect of all night student parties, carpets ruined, furniture destroyed.
Hopefully as student week progresses we will identify some of the pitfalls for all parties, and provide a route map to a successful and productive academic year for all concerned!
Students
I laughed when I read this Nick. I agree as a parent we tend to think the worst about where our kids are going to be staying.
Pimlico is a good area, and students living there needn’t worry too much although other areas of London are not so well thought of
Rgds
Kev
Yep!
The parent in me was writing that – my eldest daughter lived in a fire trap, but she wouldn’t let me do anything about it. My next daughter rolled me in to take on her Landlord who found he had the tenant from hell – one whose dad understood HMOs. …..
Lol, the parent from hell is one with Landlord skills – I like it