Cardiff House/Flat shares

[ddraig]

*awakes thread

looking for 2/3 bed place for max £600 in Canton, Cathays, Roath Cardiff
will consider other locations if decent property and or price
would very much like to avoid estate agents
cheers

again we are looking same but
gf with gdn access pref and Roath if poss
willing to go bit over £600 if well nice

 

[geminisnake]

I pay £58/month for my water in Cardiff. Where are you where you don't have to pay it??

Scotland. Some ancient law about not being charged for water. You can only be charged for the pipes and stuff For band B it's £142 a year.

 

[Caleboran]

Hi, I've been reading up on Cardiff Bay flats, though I'm currently renting in Roath. I saw this article on the CPS website about service charges being raised - http://www.cpshomes.co.uk/blog-post.aspx?bp=199. The blog seems to be directed at property owners rather than tenants, but I'd imagine costs get passed on. What are people's experiences with this - have you had unfair fee rises? Do I need to watch out for this? Thanks!

 

[ddraig]

I presume it will be passed on unless there are loads of empty flats (which i thought there were)
hopefully people will refuse to pay them or go elsewhere

Roath is bettr than the bay tho anyways! at least 4 Cardiff urbs here already

e2a - my heart bleeds for the speculative buy to let landlords, obviously!

 

[nogojones]

There are some outrageous service charges being levied on leasehold flats down the docks and in Westgate St - I know some folks paying £3k + a year.

If you rent off a landlord down the docks /bay, I'd try negotiating on the rent before I moved in as there's so many empty flats down there they'll be happy to have a tennant

 

[Ranbay]

Looking for a cheap bedsit of studio flat.....

might as wait till after the footy as that's ALL that comes up right now !